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Somervell Historic County Courthouse

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1893, John Cormack. 101 NE Barnard St.

John Cormack of San Antonio designed the two-story, rock-faced limestone courthouse with arched windows and hipped roofs in a simplified Romanesque Revival manner. The cross-axial plan, five bays wide and three bays deep, has central bays stepping forward and topped with small pediments against the hipped roofs. A single-story square tower replaced the original, more elaborate tower that was destroyed by a tornado in 1902. In 1934 the county built separate small stone structures for men’s and women’s toilets on the north and west corners of the courthouse square, replacing wood privies for men only. Also on the square is an octagonal bandstand (1933). Embedded in its concrete base are pieces of petrified wood, fossils, and ornamental stones found in the area.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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What's Nearby

Ice House
Somervell County Heritage Center (A. P. Humphrey Saloon)
Glen Hotel (Glen Rose Hotel)
Barnard’s Mill and Art Museum (Barnard’s Mill)

Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "Somervell Historic County Courthouse", [Glen Rose, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-WC27.

Print Source

Buildings of Texas

Buildings of Texas: East, North Central, Panhandle and South Plains, and West, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, 254-255.

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