1909 -- Hidalgo County Courthouse, Edinburg TX
N 26° 18.035 W 098° 09.771
14R E 583567 N 2909242
All the remains of the beautiful Spanish Mission Revival 1909 Hidalgo County courthouse is morphing corner stone in a pocket Park near the modern ugly Hidalgo County courthouse.
Waymark Code: WMPEMC
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 08/18/2015
Views: 3
in 1909 Hidalgo County engaged one architecture firm to build both a new County courthouse and a new jail for the County. The architects chose to reflect the area's Hispanic heritage by using a sleek yet beautiful Spanish Mission Revival style for the buildings. Today, the old jail his been renovated and turned into the Museum of South Texas history. Sadly, only the cornerstone of the 1909 Courthouse still exists, standing in a pocket park in downtown Edinburg.
Blasterz get a little ill when we compare the building in its glory, with the sad fragment by the roadside. The waymark photo credit for the 1909 courthouse, razed in 1954, belongs to the University of Texas Rio Grand Valley.
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The cornerstone reads as follows:
"[south side]
HIDALGO COUNTY COURTHOUSE
Built – 1909
COMMISSIONERS
A. Champion
R. L. Savage
C. Schunior
Wm. E. Sprague
COUNTY OFFICERS
S. P. Silver, County Judge
R. E. Chavez, Dist. & Co. Clerk
John Closner, Sheriff & Tax Collector
[east side]
HIDALGO COUNTY COURTHOUSE
Built – 1909
Atlee, Ayers & Henry T. Phelps
Associate Architect
Waterson & Schoenfeld
Builders"
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