Lavaca County Courthouse Explained

Lavaca County Courthouse
Coordinates:29.4447°N -96.9425°W
Map Label:Lavaca County Courthouse
Locmap Relief:yes
Built:-
Builder:A.T. Lucas
Added:March 11, 1971
Refnum:71000945
Designated Other1:TSAL
Designated Other1 Date:January 1, 1981
Designated Other1 Number:8200001135
Designated Other1 Num Position:bottom

The Lavaca County Courthouse, in Hallettsville, Texas, is a courthouse which was built in 1897. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.

It is the fifth structure serving as county seat for Lavaca County, originally "La Baca" County.[1]

It was designed by architect Eugene T. Heiner.[2]

It is a Richardsonian Romanesque-style courthouse, "strongly influenced" by H.H. Richardson's design of the Allegheny County Courthouse in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is a raised three-story limestone building, cruciform in plan, with a hipped roof and pyramidal roofs and dormers.[3]

It is a Texas State Antiquities Landmark.

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Notes and References

  1. [:File:Hallettsville-tx2016-11(courthouse).jpg]
  2. Web site: Staff. Details for Lavaca County Courthouse (Atlas Number 4302000195). Texas Historical Commission. January 5, 2019.
  3. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Registration: Lavaca County Courthouse . National Archives . Wayne Bell . Roxanne Williamson . November 5, 1970 . May 25, 2018 . With two photos.