Parmer County Courthouse - Farwell, TX
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WalksfarTX
N 34° 23.090 W 103° 02.382
13S E 680221 N 3806569
The jail next door is included in this listing.
Waymark Code: WM13ECD
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 11/22/2020
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NRHP Registration Form"The Parmer County Courthouse in the Texas Panhandle city of Farwell is sited on a large rectangular block approximately 0.2 miles east of the Texas-New Mexico state line. Completed in 1916, and occupied beginning in 1917
the three-story tan brick building has a T-shaped plan and faces west across a partially-wooded lot, with the base of the
T extending eastward. Amarillo architects Christian Risser and William Townes incorporated elements of Classical,
Renaissance, and Mission design in the building, which features a two-story inset entrance bay with three arches set on
a pair of stone Tuscan columns and brick pilasters, and elegant brick and terra cotta stringcourses. The third floor is
expressed as an attic, topped by an alternating stepped parapet featuring a central decorative terra cotta medallion with
the letter “P” under a central semicircular parapet curve.
The original brick jail, built in 1916 and enlarged with a second floor in 1929, is immediately east of the courthouse, as is included as a
contributing building."