Marshall · Harrison County · Dedicated 1900 · THC Atlas #4302000030
The stone-and-brick heart of every Texas county.
Marker Inscription
Constructed of yellow brick with limestone, pink granite, cream-colored terracotta and sheet metal details in the Renaissance Revival style. The building features four corner quarter-circle round arch entry porticos topped with covered porches and four intersecting wings with double height porticos supported by Ionic columns and ornamental pediments. Sheet metal eagles, cornice and balustrade decorate the roofline. A sheet metal winged Lady Justice, dome and dormers with ocular windows tops the central octagonal cupola.
About this site
Harrison County Courthouse (1900) is a courthouse in Marshall, Harrison County, dedicated in 1900. It is one of 2 courthouses documented in Harrison County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 270 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 32.5450, -94.3672 near Marshall. The nearest cataloged historic site is Marshall (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Harrison County, Whetstone Memorial, and Harrison County Courthouse.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #4302000030. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
The Old Harrison County Courthouse stands at the center of Whetstone Square in Marshall and is one of the most admired buildings in Texas, frequently used to represent East Texas in travel literature. Built in 1900 and designed by noted courthouse architect James Riely Gordon (with local architect C. G. Lancaster supervising construction and builders Sonnefield and Emmins), it has a cruciform plan with diagonal corner entrances, pedimented porticoes, and a prominent dome on an octagonal drum topped by a winged statue of Lady Justice. Designed in a Neo-Italian Renaissance / classical style, it served as the courthouse until 1964 and then housed the Harrison County Historical Museum, and is noted as the site of the first sit-ins in Texas. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977 and is a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark and Texas State Antiquities Landmark.
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