Courthouse

Blanco County Courthouse Community Center (1886)

Blanco · Blanco County · Dedicated 1886 · THC Atlas #4302000024

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Marker Inscription

Constructed of limestone in the Second Empire style with Italianate influences, including mansard roofs and metal detailing such as a bracketed cornice, ocular dormers, and highly ornamental cresting.

About this site

Blanco County Courthouse Community Center (1886) is a courthouse in Blanco, Blanco County, dedicated in 1886. It is one of 2 courthouses documented in Blanco County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 59 historic sites cataloged across the county.

The site sits at 30.0973, -98.4218 near Blanco. The nearest cataloged historic site is Blanco Methodist Church (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Conn, Adrian Edwards, Blanco Cemetery, and McCrocklin, Jesse L..

This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #4302000024. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.

Blanco County Courthouse Community Center (1886) — Photo: Billy Hathorn, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

History

Designed by architect Frederick Ernst Ruffini in the Second Empire style, the Old Blanco County Courthouse in Blanco opened in 1886. After the county seat moved to Johnson City in 1890, the building served many uses over the following decades, including as classrooms, a bank, a museum, and for 24 years the area hospital. It was designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1972 and a Texas State Antiquities Landmark in 2004, and it is a contributing property of the Blanco Historic District. The Coen brothers filmed the building's interior for the 2010 film True Grit.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

📍 30.0973, -98.4218 · Blanco, Blanco County

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Historical Marker

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