Wilbarger County Courthouse
by Joan Carroll
Title
Wilbarger County Courthouse
Artist
Joan Carroll
Medium
Photograph - Digital Art
Description
Stop #2 on a summer 2015 Texas road trip was the Wilbarger County Courthouse in Vernon TX, 50 miles northwest of Wichita Falls TX. The courthouse has a certain charm to it when you view the details, such as these beautiful columns. However, overall it is very boxy in appearance, as is characteristic of the Classical Revival Style. This style is based on Greek architecture and is characterized by monumental size, symmetry, massive columns, smooth or polished stone surfaces, and unadorned moldings above the columns and windows. You either love it or hate it! This is the third courthouse on this site, built in 1928 (the others were in 1883 and 1890). It is a three story limestone and concrete structure. The south and north sides of the building have three rectangular entrances on the first story and ten columns with recessed windows on the second and third stories. A ballustrade runs along the flat roof line. The 1928 Wilbarger County courthouse was one the earliest Texas courthouses designed by the architectural firm of Voelcker and Dixon, whose designs would soon be influenced by the Art-Deco/Art-Moderne style architecture of the 1930s which became prevalent in their later courthouses.
FEATURED PHOTO, The Road To Self Promotion group, 7/16/15
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July 16th, 2015
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