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[A house in Decatur, TX]

Photograph of a house in Decatur, TX. A pale grassy hill rises from the bottom edge of the photo, a leafless tree sitting to the left at it top. Leafless bushes sit farther into the photo at the hill's top, partially obscuring leafy bushes and trees from view. A tall tree with green foliage rises along the right edge of the image, rising from the top of the hill into the sky. Beyond the green plants on the hill sits the house, one corner pointed towards the camera. The building is made of off-white bricks with faded red sloping roofing. The bottom half of the corner facing the camera is made up by arches supported by thin rectangular columns, all holding up a balcony with iron-wrought railing. Above the balcony, the walls of the building zigzag as the different sections of the house meet while a single row of tall windows spans their width. The red sloping roofing tops the edges of these sections, with iron-wrought railing at their tops. A tower sits near the right edge of the house and has A-frame shaped roofs on each of its four sides, its top disappearing off-camera. A chimney rises a shorter …
Date: February 25, 1972
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Denton County Courthouse in Denton, TX]

Photograph of Denton County Courthouse in Denton, TX. A road occupies the bottom edge of the image and includes a series of parking spaces occupied by three vehicles, all facing the yellow lawn of the courthouse. Multiple leafless trees occupy the lawn, as does a streetlight near the parked vehicles, while green bushes line the base of the courthouse's walls. The main part of the building is cubic in shape with walls made of orange bricks constructed to form three floors. On each side of the building are three rows of windows, all set into white frames, along with entryways consisting of short sets of stairs and brick archways held up by four red columns. Above each side's archway is a short wall set at the level of the second floor, each with four red columns sitting atop the walls and holding up a similar structure set at the level of the third floor. The columns at the third-floor level hold up large triangular pediments. At each corner of the courthouse is a tower which, similarly to the entryways on the sides, have red columns at each floor which hold up the floor above them. The towers have open-air balconies …
Date: February 25, 1972
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Jones County Courthouse in Anson, TX]

Photograph of Jones County Courthouse in Anson, TX. A road runs across the bottom of the image with one car emerging from the image's left side, passing by a stop sign, while a second car drives off towards the right side. On the far side of the road sits he courthouse, surrounded by green trees and bushes planted near the curb that encloses the building. The bottom level of the building is made of red blocks while the rest of the courthouse is made of orange bricks, with one row of windows across the red section and three rows across the orange section. The courthouse is rectangular in shape with sections that project outwards from the rest of the building centered on each of the courthouse's sides. Each of the projecting sections has a triangular pediment at its top along with red supporting columns. The front doors to the building are centered in the projecting section on the right side of the courthouse and have a short set of stairs leading up to them from the road. In the center of the building's flat roof is a clocktower made of orange bricks with white clockfaces on each of its sides. …
Date: July 1966
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Johnson County Courthouse in Cleburne, TX]

Photograph of Johnson County Courthouse in Cleburne, TX. A street runs alongside occupied parking spots in front of the courthouse's left side, meeting another street in the photo's bottom right corner which sits next to the right side of the courthouse. At the corner of the courthouse where the two streets meet is a streetlight on a pole, currently set to red. The streetlight stands on a concrete square with a sign at its left end, which reads "One way" with a right-pointing arrow. The concrete square connects to sidewalks that extend off along either side of the courthouse, passing by the bushes and trees that cluster around the corner of the courthouse. The building itself is rectangular in shape with a section on its left side that projects outward from the building a short distance. The courthouse is made of stone blocks along its base while the walls above are made of orange bricks accented in places by white stone. The stone base level of the building has one row of small windows while the level above the base has one row of similarly sized windows and sits at the same height as the front door, which is centered …
Date: October 1972
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Hopkins County Courthouse in Sulphur Springs, TX]

Photograph of Hopkins County Courthouse in Sulphur Springs, TX. The courthouse sits in the middle of brick roads, with cars driving past it in the left side of the foreground. One car drives in front of the courthouse towards the left, next to a sidewalk that sits around the base of the building. The courthouse is made of orange and red stone and is constructed as two intersecting rectangular sections with curving walls connecting the sections' edges. One rectangular section sits with its widest side facing the camera and while the other one, intersecting it, faces the camera with its thinner side. Both sections have four main rows of windows, the bottommost one consisting of small windows just above the ground. The wider section has a roof that slopes up to an edge, creating a triangular shape at its ends, while the thinner section has a triangular roof that slopes up to a point, with a small structure projecting out of the front side of the roof. The structure has three small windows on it and has a roof that slopes up to an edge like the roof of the wider section of the building. Small towers with cone-shaped roofs …
Date: February 1975
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Hunt County Courthouse in Greenville, TX]

Photograph of Hunt County Courthouse in Greenville, TX. A parking lot occupies the photo's foreground with multiple vehicles sitting in the marked spots as one car drives through the lot from the right edge of the image. A sidewalk separates the lot from the yellow lawn of the courthouse, which is occupied by tall green trees and small bushes which line the base of the building. The courthouse faces towards the left edge of the photo and is made up by rectangular sections of varying heights, with the main part of the building having two shorter sections at its front on either side of the courthouse's entrance. Each of the shorter sections has two rows of windows, one just above the ground. The main section of the courthouse has two rows of large windows along its upper half and a row of tall columns across its center, where the front entrance is. The columns span the height of the section and sit at the top of a short set of stairs leading down to the courthouse's sidewalk. The center of the main part of the building has a small rectangular section above the building's entrance, which has one row of …
Date: February 1975
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Jackson County Courthouse in Edna, TX]

Photograph of Jackson County Courthouse in Edna, TX. A green lawn fills the bottom half of the photo as a tall tree shades the bottom right corner of the image. Additional plants the form of bushes appear along the walls of the courthouse and extend outward in lines from its entrance. A walkway in the right side of the photo leads from the front doors of the courthouse to the right edge of the image, disappearing off-camera. A planter of short bushes sits next to the walkway, near the courthouse's entrance, while a nearby flagpole flies the American and Texas flags. The courthouse building is rectangular in its general shape, with a smaller rectangular section attached to the courthouse's right corner extending perpendicular to the main part of the building. The smaller section has two large windows at its left end and a row of small windows along its upper right corner. The main section of the courthouse has glass front doors at its center with a line of windows to the door's right shadowed by a long metal rectangular affixed to the wall above. The metal rectangle has a simple red clockface at its left end while a row …
Date: October 1970
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Red River County Courthouse in Clarksville, TX]

Photograph of Red River County Courthouse in Clarksville, TX. Shores made of white rock appear in the bottom left corner and center of the photo with both short and tall grasses growing between cracks in the rocks. Water fills the space between the two shotes, occupying most of the lower third of the image. Trees grow on the central patch of stone and on the grassy shore beyond it, forming a forest. A pedestrian is visible in the right side of the photo as they walk past a small hill towards the forest, while a parked car sits mostly hidden by leaves farther up the hill. Foliage fills the middle third of the photo, obscuring the base of a tall rocky wall which almost touches the top edge of the image. Patches of dark green grow on the side of the rockface while trees grow on the top.
Date: June 1975
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Young County Courthouse in Graham, TX]

Photograph of Young County Courthouse in Graham, TX. Paved ground spans the bottom of the photo, sitting next to a row of parking meters farther into the scene. A sidewalk runs alongside the meters, separating the paved area from the yellow lawn of the courthouse. A few trees grow along the edge of the sidewalk as well as the walkway that leads from the pavement to the building's entrance, which includes a set of stairs divided down the center by white railing. A line of bushes extends along the courthouse's base on either side of the stairs. Foliage from a tree obscures the doors to the building from view. The courthouse's tall front side fills the width of the photo and includes a central section with gray walls on either side. This central section has tall black windows divided by white lines spanning it, with orange walls running along the bottom edge of the wall as well as filling the top half of the wall. A tall, thin metal structure sits on the flat roof of the courthouse with powerlines running across the photo behind it.
Date: February 13, 1972
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Parmer County Courthouse in Farwell, TX]

Photograph of Parmer County Courthouse in Farwell, TX. A river extends from the bottom right corner of the image, running to distant trees in the left, middle area of the photo. On the right shore of the river are large fluffy trees whose foliage seems to stretch out towards the river. On the left shore, in the bottom left corner of the image, concrete slopes down into the water while a bit farther into the photo sits a sidewalk running alongside the river. Standing near the edge of the sidewalk closest to the viewer are two older adults: a man with glasses and short silver hair in a yellow short-sleeved shirt and dark line-patterned pants and a woman with short gray hair wearing a long-sleeved purple shirt and long pale-pink pants with open-toe sandals. Beyond the duo is a large tree with its branches outstretched over the edge of the river.
Date: February 21, 1972
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Kenedy County Courthouse in Sarita, TX]

Photograph of Kenedy County Courthouse in Sarita, TX. The courthouse sits in an orange lawn with few plants other than a bush in the left side of the photo and two trees in the distance, towards the right edge. The building is rectangular in structure and has white walls spanned by three rows of windows set into faded orange frames. The front side of the building, which faces towards the right side of the photo, has glass front doors in faded frames like the windows with a short set of stairs in front of them. Four white columns set into the wall separate the center three columns of windows on the front side of the courthouse, with the front doors occupying the bottom of the center column of windows. The roof of the courthouse is flat and has a tall, thin metal structure rising from it with wires descending from its off-camera top. At the left corner of the courthouse a telephone pole rises up to the bottom of the third floor and has wires extending from its top in multiple directions. At the right edge of the courthouse, in the distance, a white house is visible.
Date: November 1966
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Lamar County Courthouse in Paris, TX]

Photograph of Lamar County Courthouse in Paris, TX. An intersection of dark paved roads occupies the bottom of the photo while a white car parks at the curb of a sidewalk running along the far side of the roads and around the edge of the courthouse. To the left of the sidewalk's corner is a yellow and red fire hydrant while to the right is a sign pointing to the right along with the text "One way". A person walks up the right half of the sidewalk towards the "One way" sign. The courthouse's yellow lawn is enclosed by a curb and is planted with short green bushes and two leafless trees that occupy the open corner of the lawn next to the sidewalk corner. In this part of the lawn, behind one of the trees, is a dark statue of a person standing on a tall white base with dark busts of other people above its bottom edge, one on each side of the base. Farther in the background, next to the second leafless tree, is a short stone slab with a dark rectangle, plus what may be an eagle motif, on its surface. The courthouse building itself is …
Date: February 1975
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Wood County Courthouse in Quitman, TX]

Photograph of Wood County Courthouse in Quitman, TX. A road fills the foreground of the photo with two white lines extending from the bottom left corner of the image to the edge of a sidewalk farther into scene. Two cars park in front of the courthouse at the edge of the sidewalk, which has an empty flagpole rising from its center. Small bushes line the bottom edge of the courthouse while tree branches emerge from the left and right sides of the photo. The courthouse is a flat-roofed, rectangular building made of red bricks with a short set of stairs leading from the sidewalk to the white doors of the building. A brick overhang supported by four brick columns provides shade for the doors and the windows on either side of them. Above the overhang sit four white columns spanning the second and third floors of the building in height, all supporting a triangular pediment with the outline of a circle in its center. A set of glass doors sit between the middle two column, leading into the second floor of the courthouse. Across the width of the building are three rows of windows, one for each floor of the …
Date: November 1975
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Yoakum County Courthouse in Plains, TX]

Photograph of Yoakum County Courthouse in Plains, TX. A paved, faded road divided by a double yellow line runs across the bottom edge of the image, its far side bordering the lawn of the courthouse. At the edge of the lawn, near the road, is a tree towards the left side of the photo as well as a fire hydrant and a streetlight towards the right side. Farther into the lawn, to the right of the streetlight, are two short blocks made of different materials and having small plaques set into them. Closer to the courthouse are sprinklers throwing water into the air, while green bushes and trees sit along the base of the building. A flagpole also sits in the middle of the lawn, flying the American flag. The courthouse faces the right side of the photo and is made up by multiple cubic sections which includes two shorter, medium-sized sections sitting on either side of a central section and two very short sections that are located on top of the medium sections. In the middle of the central section are doors with a short set of stairs leading up to them from the ground. Two rows of windows …
Date: July 1965
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Wharton County in Wharton, TX]

Photograph of Wharton County in Wharton, TX. A green lawn occupied by large bushes and tall trees leads up from a sidewalk to the white walls of the courthouse, which faces towards the left edge of the image. The building has a short section a taller portion rising above it, both made of white concrete. The entrance to the courthouse is in the shorter section and appears in the left side of the photo with a small set of stairs leading up to its glass doors. "Wharton County Courthouse" is written above the entrance to the building, though the words in the photo are reversed. A row of short windows along the ground and a row of taller windows both span the width of the building. The roof of both the shorter and taller sections of the courthouse have flats roofs. The taller section also has two rows of tall windows across its width as well as a clockface above the two central set of windows in its front wall.
Date: October 1970
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Titus County Courthouse in Mt. Pleasant, TX]

Photograph of Titus County Courthouse in Mt. Pleasant, TX. Four cars sit in a parking lot placed in front of the entrance to the courthouse, which faces towards the right side of the photo. A short set of stairs leads from a sidewalk set between the parking lot and the courthouse to the building's front doors. At the left corner of the courthouse is a flagpole with two flags flying from it, one being the American flag and the other a white flag with a red and blue rounded star on it. To the right of the flagpole is a horizontal stone slab with circular designs and writing on it. The courthouse's entrance consists of glass doors in blue frames, which are recessed into the building somewhat and surrounded by a blue, geometric arch that layers inward towards the doors. The section of the building the entrance is attached to is a squat cube made of silver metal with very few, small windows across its body and pale thin lines spaced at regular intervals across the building's width. A second section sits atop the first, much shorter in height as well as smaller in length and width, and is made …
Date: June 1975
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Willacy County Courthouse in Raymondville, TX]

Photograph of Willacy County Courthouse in Raymondville, TX. A green and yellow lawn fills the foreground of the photo while a sidewalk emerges from the photo's bottom left corner and leads to one side of the courthouse. The trees occupying the lawn have trunks seemingly painted white for a few feet of the trees' heights. The courthouse itself has a flat roof and is made of dark red bricks and is accented with white stone, sitting on the lawn with its longest side facing towards the left edge of the photo. An entrance in the form of a tall white arch is positioned in the center of the longer side of the building and has four columns rising across all three of the building's floor to support a rectangular pediment projecting out from the wall a short distance. The building has on both of its visible sides, a row of small windows along its bottom edge and three rows of taller windows across the remainder of the structure's width. White stone lines the bottom edge of the building and forms lines around the building, one running at the same height as the columns' bases while the other is positioned at …
Date: November 1966
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Hill County Courthouse in Hillsboro, TX]]

Photograph of Hill County Courthouse in Hillsboro, TX]. The three-story white stone building sits on a green lawn filled with a few dark green bushes and trees along with parking meters, which line the sidewalk surrounding the courthouse. In the left side of the photo, a sign saying "See you in church Sunday" sits in the lawn. The widest side of the courthouse faces the right edge of the photo, though a large tree blocks its details from view. Each corner of the building resembles a tower as they sit out from the rest of the building a short distance, their grey sloping roofs ending in flat tops with small windows in the sides. Three rows of windows span the width of the courthouse's walls, appearing in pairs throughout most of the building. In the center of both of the visible sides of the courthouse are grey, triangular roofs held up by tall columns. A white clocktower sits in the center of the courthouse's roof. It has a sloping, windowed base supporting a straighter section with windows which is topped by the final section with the clockfaces. A weathervane rises from the top of the clocktower.
Date: June 1971
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Rockwall County Courthouse in Rockwall, TX]

Photograph of Rockwall County Courthouse in Rockwall, TX. A paved parking lot sits in front of the courthouse with multiple cars and trucks occupying it, slightly obscuring the small lawn surrounding the building. The courthouse is constructed by off-white bricks and has a short set of stairs leading up to the windowed doors of the building. Across the walls of the courthouse are two rows of tall windows spaced a handful of feet apart from one another. In the center of the flat top of the building is another, short section with a single row of windows across its sides. This part of the courthouse is also made up by off-white bricks and has a flat roof. Two tall, thin metal structures rise from the top of the courthouse along as thin powerlines crisscross the sky around them.
Date: February 1975
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Parker County Courthouse in Weatherford, TX]

Photograph of Parker County Courthouse in Weatherford, TX. The courthouse sits in the middle of a shopping area, with a three-laned road running from the foreground of the photo past the right side of the building as a blue car crosses towards the center lane. Along the right edge of the photo is a sidewalk occupied by telephone poles, their wires crossing he sky towards the courthouse. A second car drives down a second road to the left of the courthouse, moving towards a lien of shops sitting behind the courthouse. The courthouse itself has pink brick walls accented at points with white bricks, and is topped by a gray shingle roof. The courthouse has two rows of tall windows across its main body, with additional windows appearing at the top of the center section of the courthouse's front. The sloping tops sitting at the top of each corner of the building each have a window on every side of them as well. A clocktower sits in the center of the courthouse's roof and has two windows on each side of its base, above which are shuttered windows. The top section of the clocktower has a clockface centered on each …
Date: July 1966
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Old Walker County Courthouse in Huntsville, TX]

Photograph of Old Walker County Courthouse in Huntsville, TX. A yellow car sits in the bottom right corner of the photo in front of a sidewalk that runs along the edge of the courthouse's lawn. A sign sits in front of the edge of the courthouse, in the left side of the image, with indistinguishable writing and the image of a person in a military uniform and helmet standing in front of the American flag. A pathway runs, in the right side of the photo, from the sidewalk up to a short set of stairs, which in turn lead to a shorter path set before a second small set of stairs which lead up to the front doors of the courthouse. The courthouse itself is made of red bricks and rises three floors high, a sloping roof covered in dark shingles sitting atop the structure. Each floor of the building has a row of windows with curved tops spanning the building's width, each set into white frames. At the edge of the roof, white triangular pediments sit atop the ends and central section of the building, each with its own small, upward-sloping roof.
Date: May 1968
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Navarro County Courthouse in Corsicana, TX]

Photograph of Navarro County Courthouse in Corsicana, TX. A small field of yellow grass leads up to a road with a line of cars parallel-parked next to a sidewalk occupied at regular intervals by telephone poles. The courthouse sits on the green lawn enclosed by the sidewalk, with multiple trees growing near the building and the telephone poles. A flagpole rises amongst foliage near the courthouse's entrance, flying the Texas and American flags. The building itself is made of white stone and brick with orange tile roofing. There is a central section obscured by trees, though a triangular pediment is visible, above which is a clock tower sitting on the roof. On either side of the central portion of the courthouse are additional rectangular sections, both connected to the central section by narrow walls. Columns occupy the middle of both rectangular sections. Each section of the building has four rows of windows spanning their width, including a row of smaller windows at the top and bottom edges of the courthouse.
Date: October 1972
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Milam County Courthouse in Cameron, TX]

Photograph of Milam County Courthouse in Cameron, TX. The courthouse faces the left side of the photo as it sits on a green lawn enclosed by a sidewalk, in front of which is a green parallel-parked car. The corner of a second vehicle appears in the bottom right corner of the photo. On the right side of the courthouse's lawn is a green bench that a person sits on, accompanied by a tall tree and a short lamp post. On the left side of the image, next to the walkway leading to the courthouse's doors, is a white sign with a seal on it and "Navy" written on it. The courthouse's entrance has a small set of stairs leading up to its windowed doors which are enclosed by a pair of columns on either side, as well as a pediment above the columns. The entrance, like the rest of the building, is made of stone and bricks that are white in color. The courthouse has a total of four rows of windows, all of them containing tall windows except for the bottommost one just above the lawn, which has shorter windows. Rectangular columns appear at each comer of the building …
Date: April 8, 1972
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Lampasas County Courthouse in Lampasas, TX]

Photograph of Lampasas County Courthouse in Lampasas, TX. The courthouse sits at a corner next to two intersecting roads with parking spots lining the parts of the roads in front of the building's sidewalk. The only vehicle in the photo is a brown car sits parked on the right side of the intersection, facing the courthouse. At the corner of the sidewalk that encloses the courthouse is a streetlight and a telephone box. The small lawn surrounding the courthouse contains small bushes along the building's base and a few thin trees planted in front of the right side of the courthouse. The building is made of white stone bricks and has a white roof lined in red. Two rows of tall windows run across the width of the courthouse's walls. The windows on each row are grouped into pairs except for the ones on either side of the entrance to the courthouse, as they are in groups of three. The entrance is in the center of the left side of the building, set into a part of the building that projects outward a short distance from the wall. The front doors have two pilasters on either side of them and …
Date: April 8, 1972
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library