De Witt County Courthouse - Cuero, TX - Victorian Style Architecture on Waymarking.com

"The DeWitt County Courthouse is a three-story sands structure with a six-story clock tower. The sandstone is rusticated throughout; the main fabric is of a cream color. the trim of red sandstone. The building is Richardsonian Romanesque and the architect, A. O. Watson, was strongly influenced by the Allegheny County Courthouse in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. The plan is central and basically square with four corner pavilions. The roof is hipped and the main tower and the pavilions have pyramidal roofs. The main facade consists of a recessed triple bay section between flanking pavilions. The pavilions are united by a connecting arcaded one-story porch very similar to that of the Pittsburgh building. The tower rises behind the central bay, and is also in the style of Richardson's building. The paired, single pane, first story windows of the front and sides of the DeWitt County courthouse are set in large arched openings with stone transoms and a grill in front of the glass in the arched opening above. The windows at the back, those in the arcade, and the second story windows are one-over-one light double hung sash type with stone lintels and single pane transoms with grills above. The scheme of window placement in the pavilions is that of one large arched opening at the first story, two trabeated windows at the second story, and two trabeated windows set behind a four-bay arcade at the third story. Balustrades define these arcades and are also used between the side arches and as a protective railing above the main porch. The clustered columns of the porch are of the squat Richardson type with Romanesque Revival capitals. The large arches spring low and have rusticated voussoirs finished with a drip-mold archivolt. All projecting corners of the building have decorative quoins of narrow stones—alternately placed on end (and extending three courses vertically) and on their sides. The pavilions have engaged columns at the corners at the third story. The corners of the tower have rounded edges or rusticated engaged columns at its full height. The second, third and fourth story windows of the tower are vertically grouped under a colossal arch. The four clock faces are simply and effectively framed by radiating rusticated voussoirs in an inset square panel. The top story is open with a three bay arcade."