The stone-and-brick heart of every Texas county.
The 1975 Martin County Courthouse is a virtually windowless 1-story concrete building with a continuous veranda on three sides. The exterior is characterized by regularly placed square columns with flanged 4-point capitals supporting a plain cornice, and rough vertically raked concrete wall surfaces.
Martin County Courthouse is a courthouse in Stanton, Martin County, dedicated in 1975. It is one of 9 historic sites cataloged in Martin County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas.
The site sits at 32.1313, -101.7910 near Stanton. The nearest cataloged historic site is Marienfeld (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include First United Methodist Church of Stanton, Carmelite Monastery, and Martin County Jail, Old.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #4302002442. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
The current Martin County Courthouse in Stanton, the county's third, was built in 1975 in a Modern style to a design by Riherd & Huckabee. It replaced a three-story 1908-1909 courthouse designed by Sam P. Herbert; when that building was razed, its dozen columns were reused to form a gazebo on the town square. The county's first courthouse dated to 1886.
Sources: countyprogress.com254texascourthouses.nettexasescapes.com
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