Constructed of red brick with pink brick, cast stone and sheet metal details. The building features an elevated portico, pediments at the roof line of each facade, flat double height cast stone pilasters and a bracketed cornice.
Sabine County Courthouse (1906)
The stone-and-brick heart of every Texas county.
Sabine County Courthouse is a courthouse in Hemphill, Sabine County, dedicated in 1906. It is one of 152 historic sites cataloged in Sabine County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas.
The site sits at 31.3421, -93.8494 near Hemphill. The nearest cataloged historic site is Hemphill (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Sabine County Jail Museum and Vergie Speights Memorial Library, First Baptist Church of Hemphill, and Hemphill Cemetery.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #4302000045. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.

The Sabine County Courthouse in Hemphill was begun in 1906 to the Beaux-Arts design of architect A. N. Dawson. Its upper floors were rebuilt after a fire in 1909, and the Works Progress Administration remodeled the building in 1938. Hemphill, the county seat since an 1858 relocation, was named for Texas Supreme Court Justice John Hemphill.
Sources: sanantoniorealestatelawyer.comtexasescapes.comhmdb.org
“Sabine County Courthouse” names 2 distinct records in Sabine County. This page is the courthouse dedicated in 1906 in Hemphill. The others:
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