Navarro County Courthouse
by Joan Carroll
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Navarro County Courthouse
Artist
Joan Carroll
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Photograph - Digital Photograph
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Texas has 254 county courthouses and this is the Navarro County Courthouse in Corsicana TX. Navarro County was created in 1846 by an act of the first Texas Legislature. It was named for early statesman Jose Antonio Navarro (1795-1871), a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence. The first county seat was established at the home of William R. Howe, an early settler on the Chambers Creek in present-day Ellis County. In 1848, Corsicana was designated the seat of government, and temporary offices were set up in the home of pioneer Hampton McKinney. The second temporary courthouse for Navarro County was a log cabin located on the corner of West First Avenue and Twelfth Street. A second courthouse, built at this site in 1853, burned in 1855, requiring the construction of a third building. In 1880, Austin architect F. E. Ruffini designed a fourth courthouse for Navarro County. The elaborately ornate building proved too small for the needs of the growing county, and a shifting foundation caused the structure to be condemned in 1904. The present courthouse was designed by architect J. E. Flanders of Dallas. Constructed of red Burnet granite and gray brick, it was completed in 1905. The Beaux Arts Classical Revival structure features a clock dome and a pedimental entryway with free-standing Ionic columns.
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April 21st, 2013
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Michael Dillon
Sure a lot of Texans gathered up right here,and they all brought some beautiful things with them better keep an eye on them,I'm watching you Joan and this is beautiful,lvf
Ella Kaye
lighting, tree framing the courthouse and the three symmetrical doors...like this very much