Parker County Courthouse - Weatherford, TX
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WalksfarTX
N 32° 45.536 W 097° 47.841
14S E 612654 N 3625202
The Parker County Courthouse is an eye-catcher. Its tall central tower and four corner pavilions with handsome mansard roofs are a charming version of the French Second Empire style in architecture.
Waymark Code: WMY3J1
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 04/13/2018
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NRHP Nomination From
"This present courthouse is the fourth one for the county and it was built in 1884-1886. The architect was W. C. Dodson."
"The courthouse is a three-story limestone building with fourth-story attics and a central tower that adds three additional stories. The building is square in plan with four identical facades, each facade divided into five bays by the shallow projection of the central and end pavilions. The end pavilions are surmounted by prominent convex mansard roofs each with four dormers with pedimented architraves above arched windows. The central pavilions have gables and the eaves of the building are bracketted with irregularly spaced brackets of two sizes. The corners of each pavilion have ashlar pilasters contrasting to the rustication of the rest of the fabric. The openings are arched."
"The first floor windows are of the one-over-one light double-hung sash type. The second and third floor windows are vertically continuous with small pediments above the terminal arch at the third floor. There is a small, somewhat Paliadian, arrangement of windows at the attic story of the central pavilions. The tower is arranged so that two convex mansard roofs are united by a vertical section — all shingled. The lowest story has paired dormers with broken segmentally arched pediments on each side; the second story has louvered bell-windows with broken segmentally arched pediments. The top is ornamented with large clock faces with molded archivolts and prominent keystones."