Lampasas County Courthouse -Lampasas, TX
Posted by: WalksfarTX
N 31° 03.928 W 098° 10.662
14R E 578449 N 3437148
1883 County Courthouse on South Pecan Street.
Waymark Code: WMZGKT
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 11/09/2018
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NRHP Nomination Form
"The Lampasas County Courthouse is a Second Empire style, limestone structure designed by the architect, W. C. Dodson. The moderate-size building has an overall rectangular shape with identical five-bay compositions on the northwest and southeast facades and similar three-bay compositions on the northeast and southwest facades. The courthouse has a Mansard roof with a flat deck above the Mansard hip in the central section and double-hip Mansard roofs with Jerkin-head gables covering the end pavilions on the southeast and northwest facades and extending across the three-bay facade of the northeast and southwest facades. The lower hip of the roof has diamond-shaped tin shingles and a standing-seam tin covering on the double-hip portion of the roof."
"The courthouse, built of native limestone, has vermiculate|5 ashlar walls with smooth-faced ashlar used in the quoins, belt course, jambs and window lintels and the entrance portico."
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