1936 - Upshur County Courthouse - Gilmer, TX
Posted by: Groundspeak Regular Member WalksfarTX
N 32° 43.760 W 094° 56.662
15S E 317798 N 3622953
Marker on the NE corner of the courthouse. Listed on the NRHP in 2012.
Waymark Code: WMZVBF
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 01/08/2019
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member bluesnote
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"The Upshur County Courthouse is a five-story building in an elongated "H" plan, designed in the Moderne style by architect Elmer George Withers in 1936 and completed in 1937. Located on the public square in the county seat of Gilmer, the building's minimal exterior ornamentation includes delicately fluted limestone spandrel panels beneath its stacks of bi-fold steel windows, suggesting classical columns. Monumental stairs lead to central entrance bays on the north and south elevations; these connect to meet a five-story central volume, which is flanked by two-story wings on a raised basement."

Year of construction: 1936

Full inscription:
UPSHUR COUNTY COMMISSIONERS COURT / J.R. HINSON COUNTY JUDGE / J.B. WOODFIN COM PRECINCT 1 / W.C. HENDERSON COM PRECINCT 2 / J.P. DAVIS COM PRECINCT 3 / M.C. HOLMES COM. PRECINCT 4 / A.D. 1936 / LEVELED BY THE M.W. GRAND LODGE OF TEXAS A.F. and A.M / GALLOWAY CALHOUN GRAND MASTER OF GRAND LODGE OF TEXAS / MASONIC SYMBOL / A.D. 1936 A.L. 5936 / BETHESDA LODGE NO. 142

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