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[Franklin County Courthouse in Mount Vernon, TX]

Photograph of Franklin County Courthouse in Mount Vernon, TX. A wide paved road sits in front of the courthouse while a narrower one runs past the building's left side. The green lawn around the courthouse is occupied by tall green trees and small bushes, and is enclosed by a sidewalk. At the left end of the sidewalk, near the left edge of the photo, is a sign reading "Speed limit 30". The courthouse building is white and made of stone blocks, with an entrance shadowed by a large triangular pediment supported by four tall columns. The columns rest on short walls sitting on either side of a short set of stairs that lead from the sidewalk to the front doors of the courthouse. Running across the width of the building, under the entrance's columns, are two rows of windows set into white frames. One window occupies the center of the triangular pediment over the building's entrance. The roof of the courthouse is flat and has a white clocktower sitting at its center, which has black and white clockfaces set into the sides of its dome.
Date: June 1975
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Falls County Courthouse in Marlin, TX]

Photograph of Falls County Courthouse in Marlin, TX. Two rows of cars parked diagonally sit in a parking lot in front of a flat-topped white building. A green lawn with tall, green trees and bushes growing in it surrounds the courthouse whose entrance faces the camera. A short set of stairs leads up to the entrance of the building which has three brown doors with large windows in them. Above the doors is a row of windows, then tall grey rectangles followed by another row of windows, which is repeated one more. This section of the building rises higher than the parts extending from either side of the courthouse's entryway. The parts of the building on either side of the tall center section have one row of windows at ground level and two rows of windows above them, with each column of windows divided by rectangular sections that project slightly from the rest of the building. A tall, thin metal structure rises from atop the center of the building and has a few wires hanging from it onto the courthouse's flat roof.
Date: June 1971
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Galveston County Courthouse in Galveston, TX]

Photograph of Galveston County Courthouse in Galveston, TX. A road runs along the bottom edge of the image, separated from the sidewalk parallel to it by a line of grass. Towards the left side of the photo, the sidewalk splits off into three paths that head left, right, and center through patches of grass occupied by bushy trees and palm trees of varying heights. At the center of the intersection of the sidewalks is a short planter with a bush of red flowers in it. In a nearby patch of grass is a black sign on a short pole with the Texas state silhouette at its top and indistinguishable text below. On that same patch of grass, near the right edge of the photo, is a simple white bench with a person in a yellow shirt sitting on it. A short distance into the image, beyond the grass and trees, is the courthouse building. A short rectangular building with walls that are white on the bottom half and red on the top half sits in front of a much taller building that is also rectangular, though entirely white in color. The shorter building has one row of windows clustered near …
Date: June 1969
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Bowie County Courthouse in Boston, TX]

Photograph of Bowie County Courthouse in Boston, TX. A paved road runs in front of the green lawn the courthouse sits on, faint yellow lines indicating parking spots in front of the road's curb. A sidewalk leads up to the entrance of the courthouse, which faces the left side of the photo. A short set of stairs lead up to the dark front door of the courthouse, which is a square building with off-white walls and a roof covered in dark shingles. Three rows of windows span the width of each side of the courthouse. The portions of the building containing the center two columns of windows on each of the building's sides project out from the rest of the structure a short distance, and are topped by A-frame roofs that similarly project outwards from the rest of the upward-sloping roof. Behind the right corner of the courthouse is a flat-topped tower made of off-white bricks. Next to the front right corner of the courthouse is a short, wide building with doors at its left end, wide windows across its walls, and a flat roof. Green bushes sit along the base of the building's walls.
Date: June 1975
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Camp County Courthouse in Pittsburg, TX]

Photograph of Camp County Courthouse in Pittsburg, TX. A paved road sits front of the green lawn of the courthouse while a sidewalk runs parallel to the road, one section breaking off to lead up to the courthouse's entrance, which faces towards the right edge of the photo. The entrance of the building includes stairs leading from the ground to the front doors, which are shadowed by a brick overhang supported by two columns on either side of the stairs. The rest of the building is also made of bricks and is constructed in a rectangular shape with a flat roof. Four rows of windows set into white frames span the sides of the courthouse, with the bottommost row positioned just above the ground while the topmost row consists of smaller windows. At the center of the front wall of the building, near the roof's edge, is "Camp County Courthouse" written across stone blocks set amongst the wall's bricks. Tall green trees grow on either side of the courthouse.
Date: June 1975
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Cass County in Linden, TX]

Photograph of Cass County Courthouse in Linden, TX. A "Keep to right" sign sits near the left edge of the photo in the foreground, beyond which are four cars parked across the image's width in front of a sidewalk lined with parking meters. The sidewalk runs in front of the green lawn which surrounds the courthouse and contains short bushes as well as a grey obelisk set atop a tall sloping base. The courthouse building itself is white with red tile roofing and white window frames. The entrance is shaded a large pediment supported by four tall columns and topped by a triangular roof with a half-circle window. Two rows of windows span the width of each side of the building except the inverted corners of the structure, which each have a side with only one window. Above the level of the pediment over the courthouse's entrance is a third row of smaller windows, set towards the top of the wall under the roof's edge.
Date: June 1975
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Chambers County Courthouse in Anahuac, TX]

Photograph of Chambers County Courthouse in Anahuac, TX. A paved road runs across the foreground of the photo, parallel to the green lawn the courthouse sits on as it faces towards the right side of the image. A sidewalk sits parallel to the road at the lawn's edge, with a walkway breaking off to lead up to the front entrance of the courthouse. A person dressed in a bright, light orange dress walks along the path towards the stairs leading up to the courthouse's front doors. Foliage from an off-camera tree appears at the left edge of the photo in the foreground while another tree grows to the left of the courthouse's stairs. The courthouse building is rectangular in shape and is made of large white bricks, with the section the stairs connect to offset inwards compared to the rest of the building. The courthouse has three rows of tall windows set into white frames across its width. In the center offset section of the building, above the top row of windows, is "A.D. Chambers County 1936" carved into the stone bricks. A small rectangular building sits on top of the courthouse's flat roof, its own roof similarly flat, with …
Date: June 1969
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Cherokee County Courthouse in Rusk, TX]

Photograph of Cherokee County Courthouse in Rusk, TX. The courthouse has pale greying walls made up by many small off-white stones, interrupted at regular intervals by columns of two tall windows set into concrete. A short set of stairs lead up to the entrance of the building which has two doors bordered by tall windows on their sides and above them. The entrance slightly faces towards the left side of the photo. The entrance has a small roof that's a dark green or blue and slopes slightly up to a decorative raindrop-shaped object. A cylindrical lantern sits on a short pole on the right side of the doors, on top of a short cube, matching the building's material. Short green bushes line the base of the courthouse's walls while trees grow in front of its entrance and at its tight corner. The central portion of the courthouse rise higher than the sections on either side of it, behind which different sections of rectangular stone structures rise from the roof. A walkway leads away from the courthouse to a curb lined with parking meters, which borders a parking lot occupied by five cars of varying styles.
Date: June 1975
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library