Upshur County Courthouse

Designed in a Classical Moderne style and clad in a tan or buff brick veneer with a limestone base and water table. It is a five-story building in an elongated "H" plan with geometric, stepped masses and rather spare ornamentation. Monumental stairs lead to central entrance bays on the north and south elevations; these connect to meet a five-story central volume, which is flanked by two-story wings on a raised basement. The building's minimal exterior ornamentation includes delicately fluted limestone spandrel panels beneath its stacks of bi-fold steel windows, suggesting classical columns.

Upshur County Courthouse is a courthouse in Gilmer, Upshur County, dedicated in 1933. It is one of 108 historic sites cataloged in Upshur County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas.

The site sits at 32.7293, -94.9446 near Gilmer. The nearest cataloged historic site is Looney School (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Upshur County, C.S.A., Cherokee Trace, and Houston, Sam.

This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #4302000089. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.