The stone-and-brick heart of every Texas county.
Constructed of light brown brick and terracotta in the Classical Revival style. The building features an entablature with windows and caryatids, a terracotta cornice and a central pedimented triple height entry portico supported by fluted Ionic columns and wings with similar smaller bays. The building has been vacant for almost 50 years and is in severe disrepair.
Nueces County Courthouse (1914) is a courthouse in Corpus Christi, Nueces County, dedicated in 1914. It is one of 2 courthouses documented in Nueces County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 131 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 27.8019, -97.3961 near Corpus Christi. The nearest cataloged historic site is Nueces County Courthouse (historic place), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Nueces County Courthouse of 1914, Nueces County, and Guaranty Title Company.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #4302000106. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
The Old Nueces County Courthouse in Corpus Christi is a six-story Classical Revival building completed in 1914 to the design of San Antonio architect Harvey L. Page, built of reinforced steel faced in soft gray brick with white terra cotta trim and a red tile roof. It stands on the courthouse block designated by county commissioners in 1853 and was the county's third courthouse; a western addition in the early 1930s gave it a cruciform plan. In 1919 meteorologist Robert Simpson survived a catastrophic hurricane inside the building. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976 and has stood vacant since county functions moved to the current courthouse in 1977.
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