Parker County Courthouse

Weatherford, United States

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The Parker County Courthouse in Weatherford, Texas, is a three-story limestone building in the Second Empire style designed by architect Wesley Clark Dodson and constructed between 1884 and 1886. The county's fourth courthouse—its predecessors having been wooden or destroyed by fire—the structure exemplifies Dodson's prolific work designing Texas courthouses. The facade is visually divided into five bays, with projecting end and central bays featuring stone pilasters at their corners, while the second story displays tall, arched windows. The distinctive roofline incorporates bracketed eaves and two mansard sections with dormers and widow's walks at each end, crowned by a central three-story tower equipped with louvers, a clock, and its own mansard roof. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1965 and is designated both a State Antiquities Landmark and a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark.

Architect

Wesley Clark Dodson

Movement

Second Empire style

Built: 1880
Type: courthouse, county courthouse
Heritage: State Antiquities Landmark, National Register of Historic Places listed place
Place: Weatherford, United States

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