Courthouse

 

Chambers County Courthouse


Building Completion Date: 1936
Active Courthouse
Located in Anahuac, Chambers County, Texas


ID: 70
Building Name: Chambers County Courthouse

Architect: Cornell G. Curtis
General Contractor: Robert E. McKee
Building Completiong Date: 1936
Arthitectural Style: Moderne Style

Notes/Description of Building: Stone, WPA, $276,000.
Addlitional Description: WPA constructed 3-story ashlar building with Moderne details and 2/2 sash steel-frame windows with horizontal muntons.
Building Use Type: Government (existing courthouse)
Present Owner: County

Bibliography: Early Modernistic County Courthouses of the State of Texas, A Reflection on the Style of Art Deco, by Ronald Mark Clements, thesis, UT, 1994


Photo and Information taken directly from the Texas Historical Commission: http://atlas.thc.state.tx.us/