The Official Publication of the County Judges and Commissioners Association of Texas
The Freestone County Courthouse was built in 1919 in a Classical Revival style as designed by W.R. Kaufman. Freestone County was carved from eastern Limestone County in 1850 and organized the following year. An eight-man committee selected Mound Prairie as the county seat; the town was eventually renamed Fairfield. The area’s […]
The San Saba community celebrated the county’s newly restored courthouse in a rededication ceremony on March 5, 2020. The Texas Legislature created and organized San Saba County in 1856. The county was first served by a two-story frame courthouse from 1857-1878, followed by a stone structure from 1878-1910. In 1910, the city of […]
On Sept. 29, 1899, the local Masonic Lodge laid the cornerstone of the current McCulloch County Courthouse, and by May of 1900 the new courthouse was move-in ready. Designed in the Romanesque Revival style, the McCulloch County capitol features flanking turrets, rusticated native sandstone walls, and a pressed metal clock tower. Interestingly, no clocks […]
Completed in 1913, the Johnson County Courthouse is one of the state’s finest historic landmarks. Among the building’s most notable features is its highly ornamented and stunning atrium. In 1854, a log building served as the courthouse in the initial county seat of Wardville. In 1856, a wooden, one-room courthouse was raised in the second […]
The Fort Bend County Courthouse, originally built in 1908, was saved from demolition by a single vote of Commissioners Court over 30 years ago and continues to be used as a functional courthouse today. The county first partially restored this historic courthouse to its original neoclassical or “Texas Renaissance” style in 1981, employing Ray Bailey […]
