The stone-and-brick heart of every Texas county.
Constructed in the Moderne style of buff brick and matching terracotta ornament in a series of layered masses. The building features decorative spandrels inset in vertical window bays, a central bay with a terracotta surround framing the entrance topped by alternating vertical windows and fluted pilasters topped with stylized eagles.
Gregg County Courthouse is a courthouse in Longview, Gregg County, dedicated in 1932. It is one of 124 historic sites cataloged in Gregg County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas.
The site sits at 32.4969, -94.7386 near Longview. The nearest cataloged historic site is General John Gregg (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Methvin, Sr., O. H., Founder of Longview, Franklin L. Whaley House, and The Courthouses of Gregg County.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #4302000174. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
The current Gregg County Courthouse in Longview, the county's third, was built in 1932 as a seven-story Art Deco building of cream-colored brick with limestone trim, designed by the Wichita Falls firm of Voelcker and Dixon and erected by C. S. Lambie and Company. Earlier courthouses stood on the square, including an 1879 Second Empire building by Austin architect F. E. Ruffini and an 1897 Romanesque Revival courthouse by Fort Worth's Marshall R. Sanguinet. Annexes were added in 1958, and a seven-story annex on the west side of the block in 1982.
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