The stone-and-brick heart of every Texas county.
Designed in the Second Empire style and constructed of red brick and limestone. It is a symmetrical three-story building topped by a Mansardic form roof with slopes, gables, decorative metal cresting, and a central clock tower. Featuring prominent corner quoins framing various configurations of rounded and segmental arched windows detailed with limestone trim.
Wharton County Courthouse is a courthouse in Wharton, Wharton County, dedicated in 1889. It is one of 128 historic sites cataloged in Wharton County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas.
The site sits at 29.3101, -96.1009 near Wharton. The nearest cataloged historic site is Security Bank and Trust Company (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Wharton County Courthouse, Croom, Wiley J., House, and Wharton County.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #4302000034. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
The Wharton County Courthouse was completed in August 1889 to a Second Empire design by prominent Houston architect Eugene T. Heiner, featuring a mansard roof, Austin limestone detailing, arched windows, and a tall central clock tower. Altered in the 1930s and 1940s, the building was restored to its original appearance in 2007 under Bailey Architects with funding from the Texas Historic Courthouse Preservation Program. The surrounding Wharton County Courthouse Historic Commercial District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.
“Wharton County Courthouse” names 2 distinct records in Wharton County. This page is the courthouse dedicated in 1889 in Wharton. The others:
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