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[Fannin County Courthouse in Bonham, TX]

Photograph of Fannin County Courthouse in Bonham, TX. The center of an intersection fills the foreground of the photo, with a traffic light hanging at the top edge of the image. The corner of two of the intersection's roads, directly across from the camera, has curbs that separate the streets from the courthouse's property. Two cars drive alongside the curbs while about a dozen other vehicles park in the lot surrounding the courthouse. Also within the parking lot are two flag poles, one flying the American flag and the other flying the Texas flag, two streetlights, and a few short trees. The courthouse building itself is white and rectangular, with some sections of the walls projecting outwards a short distance. The entrance to the courthouse is shadowed by a geometric archway that stands out from the rest of the building slightly. Across the walls of the building, except for a central gap on the left side of the building, are three rows of tall windows that are grouped together into vertical columns. In the center of the two visible walls of the courthouse, near the edge of the flat roof, are simple clockfaces. In the background behind the courthouse, on …
Date: February 1975
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[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

[Freestone County Courthouse in Fairfield, TX]

Photograph of Freestone County Courthouse in Fairfield, TX. A multi-lane road occupies the photo's foreground and is divided from a parking lot by a concrete median. The lot is empty and fills the space between the road and the courthouse. Near the curb dividing the parking lot from the courthouse's lawn is a telephone pole and two small payphones, all sitting in the left half of the image. On the opposite side of the lawn is a white pole and a small cannon. Trees with and without leaves, as well as small bushes, occupy various spots across the lawn. A walkway divides the lawn into halves leading from the parking lot to the front doors of the courthouse. The building is made of orange bricks with white stone accents in small amounts. The entrance includes a short set of stairs leading from the walkway to the red front doors of the building, which are shaded by an overhead projecting section of the courthouse that sits on four tall white columns. The entire entrance portion of the building projects outward from a wider section of the courthouse, which itself has a wider section behind it, creating a three-tiered appearance. Across all …
Date: February 27, 1972
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Grayson County Courthouse in Sherman, TX]

Photograph of Grayson County Courthouse in Sherman, TX. A yellow lawn sits in front of the courthouse building, occupied by trees of varying heights and foliage. Towards the right edge of the photo are two small bushes planted on either side of a small stone slab with an indistinguishable motif and writing on its surface. The entrance to the courthouse is near the left side of the image, where a short set of stairs lead up from a concrete walkway to the front doors. The building is made entirely of white stone blocks except for the doors and windowsills, which are all blue-green in color. The courthouse has four rows of windows, with the bottommost row consisting of small windows set just above the ground. All of the windows are divided vertically by clusters of engraved lines. Above the top row of windows, carved into the stone of the building, are the words "Grayson County Courthouse". Thin lines of carved patterns decorate the edges of the courthouse's flat roof.
Date: 1975
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Guadalupe County Courthouse in Sequin, TX]

Photograph of Guadalupe County Courthouse in Sequin, TX. The building is white and rectangular with a flat roof and two grey doors leading into it. The courthouse faces the camera directly and has one row of ground level windows with two more rows above it. A wall spanning the center of the building sits in front of the courthouse's building, with bushes running along it base. A short set of stairs leads up to the wall, extending from a walkway a pedestrian approaches, which leads to a sidewalk running around the lawn. Trees grow at each edge of the photo, with foliage spilling into the photo. A blue car is parallel parked next to the sidewalk in the right side of the image, while a brown car similarly parked sits across the road closer to the camera.
Date: July 1970
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Hamilton County Courthouse in Hamilton, TX]

Photograph of Hamilton County Courthouse in Hamilton, TX. A parking lot with long yellow blocks dividing it horizontally sits in the foreground before the courthouse and has, in the right side of the photo, a blue car parallel parked next to a yellow block beyond which is an off-white car parked facing the camera. A figure in long clothing and carrying a bag approaches the cars form the left side of the photo. At the edge of the parking lot running alongside the edge of the courthouse's lawn is a short fence held up by blocks. The lawn beside it is yellow and has multiple tall, leafless trees. The courthouse itself faces the right side of the photo slightly and is made of large, pale-orange stone blocks. The entrance has a short set of wide stairs and one set of doors one set of windows on either side of them, along with three windows above. Four pairs of white columns sitting on stone bases hold up a wide white pediment with the words "Hamilton County Courthouse" above its bottom edge in brown letters. A circular design with a star at its center sits in the middle of the pediment above …
Date: February 12, 1972
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Hansford County Courthouse in Spearman, TX]

Photograph of Hansford County Courthouse in Spearman, TX. A car parks in front of the courthouse as it faces the camera from behind a row of tall, leafless trees. Both the courthouse and the street in front of it are made of bricks, though the road's are dark brown while the courthouse's are orange. The lawn around the courthouse is yellow and has a few bushes planted near its trees. A flagpole flying both the American and Texas flags sits at the end of a walkway that leads to the windowed doors of the courthouse. White stone outlines both the doors to the building and the second-floor windows above them. The courthouse itself has a flat roof and two rows of windows spanning the central section of the building and the shorter sections on either side of it. At the bottom of the rightmost section of the building, peeking above the ground, is another row of windows.
Date: February 14, 1972
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Hardeman County Courthouse in Quanah, TX]

Photograph of Hardeman County Courthouse in Quanah, TX. A blue-gray car drives past the camera while three more vehicles, a red truck next to a blue van and white car, park in front of the orange brick and stone courthouse. The stone appears mostly as a base under the courthouse's lowest row of windows. The entrance sits into the building a short distance and includes two windowed doors with one window on either side of them, along with a row of four windows above. Two white columns sit on either side of the doors and hold up a short balcony above the doors and row of windows. A third row of windows fills the space above the balcony. On either side of this entry section of the courthouse are three rows of windows, with three windows in them each. On the left side of the building, which faces the left edge of the photo, is a second columned entrance, this one with a small pediment sitting above it, and a fire escape extending from the third floor to ground level. The roof of the courthouse is a pale blue and slopes upward to a small tower sitting at its center. …
Date: February 14, 1972
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Hemphill County Courthouse in Canadian, TX]

Photograph of Hemphill County Courthouse in Canadian, TX. The courthouse is a square building made of red brick with white-frame windows and a clocktower. It sits on a yellow lawn with leafless trees, contained by a short pale wall. Below and next to the wall is a sidewalk that runs alongside a curb that three cars and a truck have parked in front of, facing away from the camera. The ground they park on is made of grey break, laid out in rows. The entrance the courthouse has two doors containing and bordered by windows and faces the left side of the photo. Three rows of windows span the width of each side of the courthouse, with the bottommost rows partially peeking above the edge of the ground. A fire escape on the right side of the building, which faces the right edge of the photo, extends from the third floor to the ground. The clocktower of the courthouse sits on the building's flat roof and has a row of thin windows under its clockfaces, which are shaded by short white overhangs covered by blue roofing. A dome sits at the top of the clocktower with two thin poles or …
Date: February 14, 1972
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Henderson County Courthouse in Athens, TX]

Photograph of Henderson County Courthouse in Athens, TX. A multi-lane road runs across the bottom of the photo, separated from a parking lot by a yellow curb. A single car sits in the parking lot in front of a sidewalk lined with parking meters. Beyond the sidewalk is the yellow lawn of the courthouse, occupied by tall leafless trees and short bushes. In the right side of the photo, four people stand around a tall bush while facing the courthouse. A concrete walkway in the left side of the photo leads from the edge of the parking lot to the set of stairs leading to the building's front doors. The entrance of the courthouse includes two glass doors set into white frames with a small triangular pediment above them while a larger pediment sits above all three of the building's floors, affixed to the edge of the courthouse's flat roof. Four white columns support the large pediment, two on either side of the front doors, and rest on white rectangular bases. The section of the building that the pediment and front doors are attached to has two additional sections diagonally connected to it, one of the left and one on …
Date: February 27, 1972
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library