Marker Inscription
Constructed of granite and limestone in the Moderne style, including carved ornamental relief panels and friezes. Brutalist beige brick and glass addition designed by renowned archiect, Wyatt C. Hedrick.
Courthouse
Brazoria County Courthouse (1940)
The stone-and-brick heart of every Texas county.
About this site
Brazoria County Courthouse is a courthouse in Angleton, Brazoria County, dedicated in 1940. It is one of 2 courthouses documented in Brazoria County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 223 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 29.1681, -95.4313 near Angleton. The nearest cataloged historic site is Brazoria County Courthouse (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Brazoria County Courthouse (1897), Old Brazoria County Courthouse, and Angleton Independent School District.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #4302000219. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
History
The current Brazoria County Courthouse in Angleton was completed in 1940 to designs by architect Lamar Q. Cato, after a 1932 storm damaged the county's 1897 courthouse. Built in the Moderne style, the five-story building is faced in fossilized Texas limestone above a base of Texas granite, with steel windows in vertical channels separated by brushed-aluminum spandrels and a carved ornamental frieze. It remains the seat of Brazoria County government.
Sources: atlas.thc.texas.govsanantoniorealestatelawyer.comsah-archipedia.org
Also at or near Angleton, Brazoria County
“Brazoria County Courthouse” names 2 distinct records in Brazoria County. This page is the courthouse dedicated in 1940 in Angleton. The others:
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