The stone-and-brick heart of every Texas county.
Constructed of brown brick and cast stone in the Classical Revival style with Prairie style details. The building features bracketed and dentiled cornice, decorative parapet, and small entry porticos supported by square brick pillars at the front corners and Corinthian pilasters and columns.
Kleberg County Courthouse is a courthouse in Kingsville, Kleberg County, dedicated in 1914. It is one of 34 historic sites cataloged in Kleberg County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas.
The site sits at 27.5167, -97.8597 near Kingsville. The nearest cataloged historic site is Englishmen in South Texas (historical marker), about 0.1 miles away. Others within a short drive include Nance-Jones House, Ragland, John B., Mercantile Company Building, and Kingsville Railroad Depot.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #4302000141. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
The Kleberg County Courthouse in Kingsville was built in 1914, a year after the county was created, to a design by San Antonio architect Atlee B. Ayres in the Classical Revival style with Prairie School influences. It is the only dedicated courthouse the county has ever used; an annex was added in 1966 and the building was restored in 2019 by Komatsu Architecture. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.
Sources: sanantoniorealestatelawyer.comtexascourthouses.comloc.gov
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