The stone-and-brick heart of every Texas county.
Designed in a Classical Revival style and constructed out of red brick with brick and white stone detailing. It is a symmetrical two-story building with a stone belt course and a small projecting stone cornice. The large decorative parapet has a sculptural profile and features brick and stone patterned panels that are echoed in the spandrels below. Primary entry doors have decorative stone surrounds. A small red brick addition has been added to the north side.
Yoakum County Courthouse (1926) is a courthouse in Plains, Yoakum County, dedicated in 1926. It is one of 2 courthouses documented in Yoakum County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 5 historic sites cataloged across the county.
The site sits at 33.1892, -102.8298 near Plains. The nearest cataloged historic site is Yoakum County (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Yoakum County Courthouse, Bonus Shack, and Discovery Well in the Wasson Field.
This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #4302002758. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
Yoakum County's second courthouse, a two-story brick building in Plains, was erected in 1926-1927 after the county's 1908 frame courthouse burned; it was designed by the Butler Company, Architects. When the present courthouse opened in 1949, the older building was repurposed, and today it houses the Yoakum County Heritage and Art Museum, standing just west of the current courthouse and displaying ranching, agricultural and oil-heritage artifacts along with the old county jail.
Sources: courthouses.cotexastimetravel.com
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