The stone-and-brick heart of every Texas county.
Constructed of brick in the Art Deco style with highly ornamental terracotta and cast metal details. The entry doors and transom have cast metal screens. The building also features colorful and gilded terracotta ornament on spandrels and in a proscenium arch surrounding the entry doors. Brick pilasters extend above the parapet with stylized terracotta caps intersected by a band of zigzag terracotta detail.
La Salle County Courthouse is a courthouse in Cotulla, La Salle County, dedicated in 1931. It is one of 11 historic sites cataloged in La Salle County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas.
The site sits at 28.4357, -99.2366 near Cotulla. The nearest cataloged historic site is Cotulla's First School (historical marker), about 0.1 miles away. Others within a short drive include Cotulla Ranch, Sacred Heart, and Cristo Rey Cemetery.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #4302000192. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
The La Salle County Courthouse in Cotulla, the county's fourth, was completed in November 1931. San Antonio architect Henry Truman Phelps designed the four-story concrete-framed building of tan brick with terra cotta ornament, in a style transitioning from Art Deco to the Moderne favored in the 1930s. Two earlier courthouses had been burned by arson and a third demolished for structural problems; this was Phelps's last and most ambitious courthouse.
Sources: thc.texas.govtexastimetravel.com254texascourthouses.net
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