The stone-and-brick heart of every Texas county.
Constructed of limestone with carved details in the Moderne style. The building features full height limestone pilasters creating vertical window bays with flat panel spandrels. The entry is surrounded by a heavy limestone frame with a carved panel in the header.
Rockwall County Courthouse (vacant) is a courthouse in Rockwall, Rockwall County, dedicated in 1940. It is one of 41 historic sites cataloged in Rockwall County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas.
The site sits at 32.9314, -96.4599 near Rockwall. The nearest cataloged historic site is Rockwall County (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Rockwall County, East Trinity Lodge No. 157, A.F. & A.M., and First Methodist Church of Rockwall.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #4302000077. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
The historic Rockwall County Courthouse was built in 1941 as a WPA project to a design by the Wichita Falls firm Voelcker & Dixon, a four-story buff-brick, concrete and glass building. It replaced an 1892 Romanesque Revival courthouse (designed by Maximilian Anton Orlopp, Jr.) that had been demolished in 1938. County offices later moved to newer buildings, and the restored 1941 courthouse, renovated in 2002 by ArchiTexas, no longer serves as the working courthouse.
Sources: sanantoniorealestatelawyer.comcourthouses.cobsw-architects.com
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