The stone-and-brick heart of every Texas county.
Constructed of dark brick in the Classical Revival style with limestone and copper details including a high relief pediment over double height Ionic columns supported by a base with horizontal brick courses and arched window and door openings.
Mills County Courthouse is a courthouse in Goldthwaite, Mills County, dedicated in 1913. It is one of 38 historic sites cataloged in Mills County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas.
The site sits at 31.4499, -98.5694 near Goldthwaite. The nearest cataloged historic site is Mills County Jailhouse (historic place), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Goldthwaite Eagle, Confederate Veterans Memorial of Mills County, and Mills County Jail.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #4302000150. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
The Mills County Courthouse in Goldthwaite is a three-story Classical Revival building constructed in 1913 of brick with a cast stone basement. It was designed by San Antonio architect Henry Truman Phelps and replaced the county's first courthouse of 1890, which burned in 1912. The courthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 8, 2000, and later designated a Texas State Antiquities Landmark and a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark.
Sources: en.wikipedia.org
“Mills County Courthouse” names 2 distinct records in Mills County. This page is the courthouse dedicated in 1913 in Goldthwaite. The others:
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