Lamesa (in Spanish, “the table,” here referencing the town area’s topography) was platted in 1903 and became the seat of Dawson County in 1905. Downtown Lamesa is focused on the courthouse, a cubic, reddish brown brick building of two floors elevated on a raised basement and carrying a fourth-story attic level. Designed by Fort Worth architects Sanguinet and Staats, it suffered a less than compatible postwar remodeling and addition (1952, Allen and Allen).
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