The stone-and-brick heart of every Texas county.
Constructed of red brick, rusticated limestone and gray granite in the Romanesque Revival style. The courthouse features four quarter circle entry porticos supported by short, thick granite columns under covered porches supported by more delicate granite columns, an intersecting hipped roof with ornamental masonry dormers and a central flat roof square clocktower.
Lee County Courthouse is a courthouse in Giddings, Lee County, dedicated in 1897. It is one of 110 historic sites cataloged in Lee County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas.
The site sits at 30.1814, -96.9372 near Giddings. The nearest cataloged historic site is Lee County Courthouse (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Lee County Courthouse, Lee County, and County Named for Beloved Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #4302000196. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
The Lee County Courthouse in Giddings was designed by architect J. Riely Gordon in the Richardsonian Romanesque style and built in 1898-1899 by Sonnefield, Emmins and Abright. It replaced the county's first courthouse, an 1878 Second Empire building destroyed by fire in 1897. The courthouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975, designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1968, and a State Antiquities Landmark in 1981.
Sources: en.wikipedia.org
“Lee County Courthouse” names 3 distinct records in Lee County. This page is the courthouse dedicated in 1897 in Giddings. The others:
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