The stone-and-brick heart of every Texas county.
Constructed of buff brick and limestone in the Romanesque Revival style. The building features a mansard roof with ornamental cresting, corner round towers with conical roofs and finials, rounded arch window openings and entry with a stained glass lunette transom, and a square brick and limestone clocktower with gable dormers inersecting a pyramidal roof with finial.
Karnes County Courthouse is a courthouse in Karnes City, Karnes County, dedicated in 1895. It is one of 45 historic sites cataloged in Karnes County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas.
The site sits at 28.8853, -97.9015 near Karnes City. The nearest cataloged historic site is Karnes County Courthouse (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Karnes County, First Baptist Church of Karnes City, and Karnes City.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #4302002962. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
Construction of the Karnes County Courthouse in Karnes City began in 1894 under architect John Cormack, whose partner Jacob A. Astor completed the building in 1895 after Cormack's death. The three-story rusticated brick courthouse combined Second Empire and Richardsonian Romanesque elements, with projecting mansard towers, cylindrical corner towers, and a central clock tower. Karnes City had become the county seat in 1893 after the railroad bypassed the former seat at Helena.
Sources: thc.texas.govsanantoniorealestatelawyer.comcountyprogress.com
“Karnes County Courthouse” names 2 distinct records in Karnes County. This page is the courthouse dedicated in 1895 in Karnes City. The others:
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