Old WorldTarrant County Courthouse
Tarrant County Courthouse
Tarrant County Courthouse: Tarrant County Court House (20088588)
Tarrant County Courthouse: Court House (10011919)
Tarrant County Courthouse: Clock tower of the Tarrant County Courthouse and adjacent buildings in Fort Worth, Texas LCCN2014633396

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Courthouse · Fort Worth, United States

Tarrant County CourthouseSuspected

Dated
Dated 1893–95
Declared purpose
County courthouse
Today
Survives, still a courthouse
Build time
About 2 years (1893–95)
Region
United States
Architect of record
Gunn & Curtiss, architects: about when credited (1893, born ). Build time on record: about 2 years (1893–95).All architects of record →
On the list as
Suspected

Why it's on the list

A granite courthouse with a clock tower in about two years.

Hidden history

Found, Not Built

A pink granite courthouse with a clock tower on a bluff over the Trinity River. Its design closely resembles the Texas State Capitol.

  1. Why researchers flag it

    A granite courthouse with a clock tower in about two years.

  2. A small capitol

    Its dome and granite echo the state capitol in Austin. The same look appears in courthouses across Texas.

  3. Two years

    Researchers set the granite and the tower against the two-year build.

Questions worth asking

  • Why does a county courthouse look like a state capitol?

Possible original uses

  • Courthouse or civic hall

What the photos show

Sources

Further viewing

Episodes from My Lunch Break (Michael Kruse), the main lens for this app. They open on YouTube.

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