Probably the Best Little Courthouse in Texas

So, Where's This Texas Courthouse?

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That is, of course, the Ellis County Courthouse, another building that cotton built.

So, Where's This Texas Courthouse?

> This one should be easily identifiable just from the tree that appears in the foreground.
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Hint: the tree is a Texas Madrone.

So, Where's This Texas Courthouse?

Nope!! It is the courthouse in Decatur TX, Wise County, built by Cattle trade

Here's a real plain Jane courthouse

Hey, that's where my birth certificate is registered, so be nice. There was an older, perhaps uglier building buried beneath that cladding. They had an election last year to replace the building. The proposal lost.

I was shocked when I went to sit and wait to testify on a boundary issue there that the benches in the courtroom still had ashtrays mounted on the back. The building has a definite late 40s early 50s feel.

So, Where's This Texas Courthouse?

> Nope!! It is the courthouse in Decatur TX, Wise County, built by Cattle trade

Yes, it's a sort of scaled-down version of the Ellis County Courthouse.

Ellis County Courthouse

So, Where's This Texas Courthouse?

Check this out

http://trtdg.com/2009/06/20/wise-county-texas-county-courthouse/

So, Where's This Texas Courthouse?

> Hint: the tree is a Texas Madrone.

And, for the record, that's the Jeff Davis County Courthouse in mile-high Fort Davis.

Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh has a pretty cool county courthouse as well.

Allegheny County Courthouse

What makes it cool from a survey standpoint is that there are a series of floodmaps prepared in 1912 that have a coordinate system origin at the center of the courthouse tower:

here is a link to scans of the maps:

Pittsburgh flood maps