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Anderson County Courthouse
500 North Church Street
Palestine, Texas 75801Phone: 903-723-7425 |
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Anderson County Annex
703 North Mallard
Palestine, Texas 75801 |
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| The Anderson County Courthouse is an
historic courthouse located at 1 Public Square in Palestine,
Anderson County, Texas. The Beaux-Arts style building was
built atop the highest hill in Palestine. Austin architects
Charles Henry Page and Louis Charles Page designed the
structure. It was built in 1913 and 1914 and dedicated on
December 20, 1914, at a cost of approximately $250,000. |
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| Anderson County was created by the Texas Legislature
on March 24, 1846, and named for former Republic of Texas Vice-President
Kenneth L. Anderson. The first Anderson County Courthouse was a
one-story wood frame structure built in 1847. It was replaced by a
two-story brick courthouse in 1856. The third courthouse, built of brick
and completed in 1886, by noted Texas courthouse architect Wesley Clark
Dodson (1829-1914) of Waco. It was destroyed by arson in 1913
purportedly to destroy incriminating documents. The current Anderson
County Courthouse is the fourth structure to serve as the seat of
Anderson County government. The courthouse uses a Beaux-Arts bi-axial
arrangement with a rotunda crowned by an inner art glass dome with an
outer dome surmounted by Lady Justice. The building is three stories
with a raised basement. It is finished in brick, rock and terra cotta.
The design includes projecting porticos with pediments on all four
elevations each with six ionic columns. |
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| The courthouse underwent major
restoration in 1986 and was added to the National Register
of Historic Places on September 28, 1992. |
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Anderson County Courthouse |
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| Elkhart Downtown |
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| Frankston Downtown |
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| Palestine View Of City |
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