Lavaca County Courthouse, Texas, United States
4.0 (1 review) Spent Ranking #3 in Hallettsville Historic Sites • Architectural Buildings • Government Buildings
Old courthouse
We stopped to look at this courthouse and read the historical marker while on a recent road trip. The date on the building is 1897. The style of the building is Romanesque Revival. The one hundred seventy-feet tall courthouse is made of brown sandstone and grey stone shipped in by rail as huge boulders from Mill County. These stones were measured and cut on site by local farmers and other laborers. It has a hipped roof and heavy towers with pyramidal roofs which look a whole lot like those pyramids in Egypt. The windows are tall and narrow and have what are called lintels. The clock tower contains a seven foot tall Seth clock and can be seen from miles away. I've been told that the courthouse is beautifully decorated at Christmas.
Address
109 N La Grange St, Hallettsville, TX 77964-2723
Website
http://www.thc.texas.gov/preserve/projects-and-programs/texas-historic-courthouse-preservation/restored-courthouses/lavaca
Current local date and time now
Tuesday, May 14, 2024, 8:14
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4.0 based on (1 review)
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