The stone-and-brick heart of every Texas county.
Constructed of dark brick with cast stone details in the Classical Revival style with Beaux Arts elements. The courthouse features a base with horizontal heavy brick courses, a grand etnry stair and a double height portico supported by fluted Corinthian columns, and an ornamental entablature with a dentiled cornice. A highly ornamental upper floor and parapet above the entablature.
Hall County Courthouse is a courthouse in Memphis, Hall County, dedicated in 1923. It is one of 17 historic sites cataloged in Hall County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas.
The site sits at 34.7247, -100.5364 near Memphis. The nearest cataloged historic site is Hall County Courthouse (historic place), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Hall County Courthouse, Hall County, and First Presbyterian Church of Memphis.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #4302000122. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
The Hall County Courthouse in Memphis is a four-story red-brick building constructed in 1923, with the architects given as Page Brothers, et al. It is a Classical Revival composition with Beaux-Arts influences, each facade featuring a two-story loggia with paired Corinthian columns. The courthouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 1, 2008, and was designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark and a Texas State Antiquities Landmark the same year.
Sources: en.wikipedia.org
“Hall County Courthouse” names 3 distinct records in Hall County. This page is the courthouse dedicated in 1923 in Memphis. The others:
See this site and every marker, cemetery, courthouse, museum and landmark across Texas on one live map — find what's near you, get directions, and check in as you roam.
