During the last quarter of the nineteenth century, courthouses were crowned with the mansard roofs of the Second Empire style or were enhanced with bracketed cornices and other features of the Italianate mode.
Floor plans with second-story courtrooms, often two stories in ceiling height, continued in use, but buildings were larger and more complex. At the end of the nineteenth century, numerous prospering counties replaced earlier halls of justice with large, picturesque edifices. Buildings appear in Romanesque Revival styles, with polychromy and Roman-arched openings; in Renaissance Revival style, with Classical details based upon Renaissance buildings in Europe; and in composite styles, with forms and features from manifold modes combined in a single building.
In planning they still largely followed earlier practices with symmetrical compositions of forms and spaces, although they often had rotundas providing impressive interior centers of circulation. On the exteriors, columns, pediments, and domes are characteristic features. Riely Gordon. Beginning in the s some courthouses were designed in Moderne style, with a decorative vocabulary based upon clean forms, repetitive lines, and new materials.
Buildings continued to be symmetrical in composition, but Classical details were stripped away and new arrangements of forms appeared. George W. The program typically awards the following types of grants: planning grants for the county to produce architectural plans and specifications; construction grants for the county to undertake construction of some kind; and emergency grants to address issues endangering a historic courthouse or its occupants.
The program awards planning and construction grants based upon the sum of scores assigned to 20 criteria, and emergency grants based primarily upon the score assigned to the endangerment category. Subsequently, the program's success led to continued funding from the Texas Legislature:.
Today, a total of Texas courthouses are listed in the National Register of Historic Places, are Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks, and are State Archeological Landmarks, and as of , 70 of those have been fully restored through THCPP grants and another 29 have received emergency or planning grants. Like most websites, we use cookies to improve our service and make your user experience better.
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