Texas castles

Posted on February 28, 2010 | Comments Off on Texas castles

1837023A Bavarian fairy-tale castle? Nope. A Texas one. Actually, the old Romanesque Revival, granite and sandstone, Dallas County courthouse. Photographer Rick Turner has a better, but copyrighted, version here.

Via Texana Review..

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0 responses to “Texas castles”

  1. jdallen's avatar jdallen | March 1, 2010 at 6:17 am |

    Yeah, the old courthouse here in Brazoria, over on the next block, looked a bit like that, more Gothic, I think. But they lost the Brazoria County seat to Angleton via political maneuvering, somehow, and eventually it burned down. I’ve looked into it just a bit, but trying to find out stuff like that, that you can believe, is difficult, to say the least.

  2. Dick Stanley's avatar Dick Stanley | March 1, 2010 at 7:25 am |

    Many courthouses around the state are grandiose, in one way or another, but this is one of the few I’ve seen that has turrets.

  3. SnoopyTheGoon's avatar SnoopyTheGoon | March 9, 2010 at 8:34 am |

    Must have plenty of ghosts. In pink, I am afraid 🙂

  4. Dick Stanley's avatar Dick Stanley | March 9, 2010 at 9:43 am |

    I wonder, with all those windows. Few murky spots for ghosts, probably.