The stone-and-brick heart of every Texas county.
Constructed of brick and limestone in the Second Empire style. The building features a central pedimented bay, quoins and corner pavilions with mansard roof, dormers and cresting and a central tower with a segmented dome and a Lady Justice. In 1929, the brick was stuccoed and painted pink.
Presidio County Courthouse is a courthouse in Marfa, Presidio County, dedicated in 1887. It is one of 81 historic sites cataloged in Presidio County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas.
The site sits at 30.3134, -104.0221 near Marfa. The nearest cataloged historic site is Humphris-Humphreys House (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include El Paisano Hotel, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, and El Paisano Hotel.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #4302000158. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
The Presidio County Courthouse in Marfa was designed by San Antonio architect Alfred Giles, who beat out eighteen competitors, and built in 1886 at a cost of $60,000 in a Second Empire style modeled on his El Paso courthouse. Constructed of brick and locally quarried stone with a pink stucco exterior and a statue of Lady Justice atop the central dome, it was completed in time for a celebratory grand ball on January 1, 1887. It was designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1964, added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977, and later named a Texas State Antiquities Landmark.
Sources: en.wikipedia.org
“Presidio County Courthouse” names 2 distinct records in Presidio County. This page is the courthouse dedicated in 1887 in Marfa. The others:
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