The stone-and-brick heart of every Texas county.
Constructed of rusticated red sandstone and pink and gray granite in the Romanesque Revival style. The building features four arch entry porticos, carved sandstone details, a wide band of checkerboard pattern of sandstone and pink granite, highly ornamental gabled dormers and intersecting hip roofs with a central square tower with a pyramidal roof and corner engaged finials with conical roofs.
Ellis County Courthouse is a courthouse in Waxahachie, Ellis County, dedicated in 1896. It is one of 296 historic sites cataloged in Ellis County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas.
The site sits at 32.3854, -96.8478 near Waxahachie. The nearest cataloged historic site is Ellis County Courthouse (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Ellis County Courthouse, 1889 Masonic Lodge Hall, and Hancock Building.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #4302000166. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
The Ellis County Courthouse in Waxahachie was designed by architect James Riely Gordon and built in 1895–1897 in the Richardsonian Romanesque style, constructed of granite, red sandstone and brick with a central clock tower rising about 134 feet. Widely regarded as Gordon's masterpiece, it is decorated with carved faces of people and animals. The courthouse was designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1969 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Ellis County Courthouse Historic District.
Sources: en.wikipedia.org
“Ellis County Courthouse” names 3 distinct records in Ellis County. This page is the courthouse dedicated in 1896 in Waxahachie. The others:
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