The stone-and-brick heart of every Texas county.
Designed in the Classical Revival style and constructed in red brick with decorative sheet metal elements and details. It is a symmetrical three-story building on a raised basement. The east and west facades feature five large Palladian windows set behind four slender fluted Ionic columns supporting a simplified entablature and small central pediment. This is framed by two pavilions featuring banded brick pilasters.
Wheeler County Courthouse is a courthouse in Wheeler, Wheeler County, dedicated in 1925. It is one of 44 historic sites cataloged in Wheeler County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas.
The site sits at 35.4446, -100.2728 near Wheeler. The nearest cataloged historic site is Wheeler County Jail (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include The Millie Porter House, Wheeler County, and Wheeler Historical Museum.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #4302000035. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
The Wheeler County Courthouse was built in 1925 to a Classical Revival design by Texas architect E. H. Eads, funded by a bond election held that year. The concrete-framed, brick-veneered building has cast stone window sills and capitals and is fronted by eight dramatic Ionic columns. The county completed a thorough restoration in 2004 through the Texas Historic Courthouse Preservation Program.
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