The stone-and-brick heart of every Texas county.
Constructed of flecked buff brick, cast stone and sheet metal in the Classical Revival style. The central portion of the building has intersecting gable roofs with deep pediments and a low central dome. The small angled wings have flat roofs with a wide entablature.
Rains County Courthouse is a courthouse in Emory, Rains County, dedicated in 1908. It is one of 57 historic sites cataloged in Rains County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas.
The site sits at 32.8747, -95.7648 near Emory. The nearest cataloged historic site is Rains County Courthouse (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Rains County, Rains County Leader, and Amis, James Alexander.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #4302000159. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
The Rains County Courthouse in Emory was built in 1908 by the Bryan Architectural Company of St. Louis (architect Andrew J. Bryan) after fire gutted the previous courthouse, and was raised around the steel record vault that survived the blaze in its original location. Built in the Classical Revival style in the shape of a two-story Maltese cross, it used distinctive ginger-colored brick made by the nearby Fraser brick company from local clay.
“Rains County Courthouse” names 2 distinct records in Rains County. This page is the courthouse dedicated in 1908 in Emory. The others:
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