The stone-and-brick heart of every Texas county.
Constructed of limestone with sheet metal details in the Second Empire style. The building features adouble-height arched window openings at the second floor, a central bay with a dentiled pediment supporting an ornamental clocktower and corner bays with dormers on a mansard roof.
Robertson County Courthouse is a courthouse in Franklin, Robertson County, dedicated in 1883. It is one of 103 historic sites cataloged in Robertson County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas.
The site sits at 31.0270, -96.4874 near Franklin. The nearest cataloged historic site is Franklin (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Robertson County Courthouse, Franklin Carnegie Library, and Franklin Cemetery.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #4302000076. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
The Robertson County Courthouse in Franklin is a three-story cut-stone building designed by Austin architect Frederick Ernst Ruffini and built in the Second Empire style in the early 1880s, with exterior walls of Austin limestone. Its signature mansard roof was removed in 1924 and later restored. The courthouse (with the associated jail) was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.
Sources: en.wikipedia.orgsah-archipedia.orgtexascourthouses.com
“Robertson County Courthouse” names 2 distinct records in Robertson County. This page is the courthouse dedicated in 1883 in Franklin. The others:
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