Johnson County Courthouse
by Joan Carroll
Title
Johnson County Courthouse
Artist
Joan Carroll
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Photograph - Digital Photograph
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Johnson County Courthouse in Cleburne TX seems new and rather stark by the standards of nearby county courthouses built in the late 1800s. That's because it is the 6th county courthouse and was constructed in 1912. The fifth county courthouse constructed in 1883 burned on April 15, 1912, the same day the Titanic sank. A stone from this courthouse with the carved date of 1883 sits at the east side entrance of the 1913 courthouse. The commissioners court hired the Dallas architectural firm of Lang and Witchell to design the county�s sixth and current courthouse. Charles Erwin Barglebaugh also assisted in designing this courthouse. Barglebaugh trained under architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Construction began in 1912 and was completed by the end of 1913.This courthouse was similar to two earlier courthouses Lang and Witchell designed for Cooke County and Scurry County (later drastically altered) in 1911. The architects utilized the Prairie School style of architecture inspired by architects Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis H. Sullivan. The dominant features included a focus on horizontal lines, flat or hipped roofs and a disciplined use of ornamentation. The designation Prairie is due to the dominant horizontality of the majority of Prairie style buildings which echoes the wide, flat, tree-less expanses of the mid-Western United States.
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