Jack County Courthouse - Jacksboro, TX - U.S. National Register of Historic Places on Waymarking.com

"The Jack County Courthouse has served as the center of county government since 1940. In 1938 the county received a grant from the federal Public Works Administration to construct a new judicial building, supplementing local bond funding. Architectural firm Voelcker & Dixon of Wichita Falls, Texas, produced a design that followed contemporary trends, blending traditional elements from classical architecture with popular modernistic forms, ornamentation, fixtures, and finishes, resulting in a richly textured and finely-detailed building. The courthouse acts as the center of all upper levels of government in Jack County by providing not only the administration of law but government record storage, and a center of elections and their administration, and until recently, the county jail was housed on the 3rd floor.

From a distance, the courthouse is austere and understated, with a boxy profile and shallow relief sculpture. The overall appearance is that of a simplified temple, with pilasters serving as columns separating dark vertical bands of recessed casement windows and dark marble spandrels, which together read as voids and reinforce the building's verticality. The entablature is also simplified, with finely-detailed carvings. The fluted pilasters lack capitals, and the face edges of the flutes are flush with the tall stone entablature above. Doors at the building entries are hollow bronze, topped with metal ornamentation on the west side and carved limestone on the east side. The courthouse has a flat roof, with a single-story utility penthouse, only visible from the ground on the east side. "