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[A girl in the woods]
Photograph of a young girl standing in the middle of the woods, by a tree trunk. She is wearing a long dress and has her arms crossed over her chest.
[Group of Boy Scouts]
Photograph of a group of Boy Scouts in front of the Brazoria County News office.
[Group of people in a Dairy Queen]
Photograph of a group of Dairy Queen workers all dressed in their uniforms and wearing cowboy hats with the number 79 on it. In the center of the table that they are gathered around is a haybail and a saddle.
[Hill County Courthouse in Hillsboro, TX]]
Photograph of Hill County Courthouse in Hillsboro, TX]. The three-story white stone building sits on a green lawn filled with a few dark green bushes and trees along with parking meters, which line the sidewalk surrounding the courthouse. In the left side of the photo, a sign saying "See you in church Sunday" sits in the lawn. The widest side of the courthouse faces the right edge of the photo, though a large tree blocks its details from view. Each corner of the building resembles a tower as they sit out from the rest of the building a short distance, their grey sloping roofs ending in flat tops with small windows in the sides. Three rows of windows span the width of the courthouse's walls, appearing in pairs throughout most of the building. In the center of both of the visible sides of the courthouse are grey, triangular roofs held up by tall columns. A white clocktower sits in the center of the courthouse's roof. It has a sloping, windowed base supporting a straighter section with windows which is topped by the final section with the clockfaces. A weathervane rises from the top of the clocktower.
[Hood County Courthouse in Granbury, TX]
Photograph of Hood County Courthouse in Granbury, TX. A paved street wraps around the corner of the courthouse that faces the camera, with multiple vehicles sitting in front of the courthouse. A curb in the right side of the photo has a sign sitting on it reading "One way" with an arrow pointing left. A truck sits beyond the sign and faces he curb. The courthouse itself sit on a green lawn occupied by trees and bushes and has walls made of off-white stone bricks. The building is cubic in its general shape, with the corners and centers of each wall projecting out from the rest of the building slightly. The projecting sections each have triangles in the brown edges of their roofs, on each side of their sections. The roofs of the central projecting sections slope up to an edge while the corner sections slope up to points. The walls of the courthouse have three rows of windows across them except for the central sections, which have tall windows across the second and third floors and a row of small windows near the edges of the roof. On the central section on the right side of the building, a door occupies the first-floor level of the wall. Centered on the roof of the courthouse is a tall white tower with three sections. The bottom section has two windows in orange frames on each side while the middle section has one shuttered orange window on each side. On each side of the top section are white clockfaces with black numbers and hands. On the top of the tower is a short, thin metal structure enclosed by a short fence.
[Hopkins County Courthouse in Sulphur Springs, TX]
Photograph of Hopkins County Courthouse in Sulphur Springs, TX. The courthouse sits in the middle of brick roads, with cars driving past it in the left side of the foreground. One car drives in front of the courthouse towards the left, next to a sidewalk that sits around the base of the building. The courthouse is made of orange and red stone and is constructed as two intersecting rectangular sections with curving walls connecting the sections' edges. One rectangular section sits with its widest side facing the camera and while the other one, intersecting it, faces the camera with its thinner side. Both sections have four main rows of windows, the bottommost one consisting of small windows just above the ground. The wider section has a roof that slopes up to an edge, creating a triangular shape at its ends, while the thinner section has a triangular roof that slopes up to a point, with a small structure projecting out of the front side of the roof. The structure has three small windows on it and has a roof that slopes up to an edge like the roof of the wider section of the building. Small towers with cone-shaped roofs sit on either side of the thinner section's roof. Across the curving walls connecting the two sections' edges are a row of windows near the walls' flat tops. The walls rise only to the top of the second floor of the building and, below their windows, are made up by open-air arches. A large tower sits in the center of the roof covering the wider section of the building, consisting of a stone base with small towers rising from each corner. The towers each have a red cone-shaped top and have sloping roofs between their upper sections, which lead up …
[A house in Decatur, TX]
Photograph of a house in Decatur, TX. A pale grassy hill rises from the bottom edge of the photo, a leafless tree sitting to the left at it top. Leafless bushes sit farther into the photo at the hill's top, partially obscuring leafy bushes and trees from view. A tall tree with green foliage rises along the right edge of the image, rising from the top of the hill into the sky. Beyond the green plants on the hill sits the house, one corner pointed towards the camera. The building is made of off-white bricks with faded red sloping roofing. The bottom half of the corner facing the camera is made up by arches supported by thin rectangular columns, all holding up a balcony with iron-wrought railing. Above the balcony, the walls of the building zigzag as the different sections of the house meet while a single row of tall windows spans their width. The red sloping roofing tops the edges of these sections, with iron-wrought railing at their tops. A tower sits near the right edge of the house and has A-frame shaped roofs on each of its four sides, its top disappearing off-camera. A chimney rises a shorter distance into the air on the opposite side of the building, sitting behind the railing of the left side of the house's roof.
[Hunt County Courthouse in Greenville, TX]
Photograph of Hunt County Courthouse in Greenville, TX. A parking lot occupies the photo's foreground with multiple vehicles sitting in the marked spots as one car drives through the lot from the right edge of the image. A sidewalk separates the lot from the yellow lawn of the courthouse, which is occupied by tall green trees and small bushes which line the base of the building. The courthouse faces towards the left edge of the photo and is made up by rectangular sections of varying heights, with the main part of the building having two shorter sections at its front on either side of the courthouse's entrance. Each of the shorter sections has two rows of windows, one just above the ground. The main section of the courthouse has two rows of large windows along its upper half and a row of tall columns across its center, where the front entrance is. The columns span the height of the section and sit at the top of a short set of stairs leading down to the courthouse's sidewalk. The center of the main part of the building has a small rectangular section above the building's entrance, which has one row of windows. On the roof of the main part of the building is a short rectangular section with one row of windows, on which is another, much thinner section without windows. Each section of the courthouse's structure has a flat roof and is made primarily of stone blocks, though the main section has walls made of bricks.
[Jackson County Courthouse in Edna, TX]
Photograph of Jackson County Courthouse in Edna, TX. A green lawn fills the bottom half of the photo as a tall tree shades the bottom right corner of the image. Additional plants the form of bushes appear along the walls of the courthouse and extend outward in lines from its entrance. A walkway in the right side of the photo leads from the front doors of the courthouse to the right edge of the image, disappearing off-camera. A planter of short bushes sits next to the walkway, near the courthouse's entrance, while a nearby flagpole flies the American and Texas flags. The courthouse building is rectangular in its general shape, with a smaller rectangular section attached to the courthouse's right corner extending perpendicular to the main part of the building. The smaller section has two large windows at its left end and a row of small windows along its upper right corner. The main section of the courthouse has glass front doors at its center with a line of windows to the door's right shadowed by a long metal rectangular affixed to the wall above. The metal rectangle has a simple red clockface at its left end while a row of windows sits above the structure, interrupted in the middle by a section of brick wall. To the left of the courthouse's front doors is a section of brick wall with "Jackson County Courthouse" written out in metal letters. To the left of the brick wall, the remainder of the courthouse consists of a row of windows near the roof, while a rectangular brick structure sitting in the left side of the photo obscures the wall below the windows. The roofs of all the sections of the courthouse are flat and lined in gray.
[Jasper County Courthouse in Jasper, TX]
Photograph of Jasper County Courthouse in Jasper, TX. A paved road runs across the foreground of the photo while a slightly blurry parking meters appears in the bottom left corner. In front of the sidewalk across the road, slanted white lines have been painted on the road to indicate parking spaces. A short set of stairs extend from the sidewalk to a concrete walkway that leads up to another short set of stairs, which sit in front of the courthouse's front door. On either side of the walkway is the courthouse's lawn, which is filled with fluffy green bushes and tall trees with equally expansive foliage, obscuring the ends of the courthouse. The building appears rectangular in is general shape and has smooth off-white walls, an upward-sloping roof covered with red shingles, and tall windows set into white frames. The front door of the building is dark green with a half-circle shaped top, set into the center section of the wall which has a triangular pediment above it at the roof's edge. On the pediment is the wire outline of a star. Across the visible wall of the courthouse are two rows of tall windows, all curved at the top like the front door.
[Johnson County Courthouse in Cleburne, TX]
Photograph of Johnson County Courthouse in Cleburne, TX. A street runs alongside occupied parking spots in front of the courthouse's left side, meeting another street in the photo's bottom right corner which sits next to the right side of the courthouse. At the corner of the courthouse where the two streets meet is a streetlight on a pole, currently set to red. The streetlight stands on a concrete square with a sign at its left end, which reads "One way" with a right-pointing arrow. The concrete square connects to sidewalks that extend off along either side of the courthouse, passing by the bushes and trees that cluster around the corner of the courthouse. The building itself is rectangular in shape with a section on its left side that projects outward from the building a short distance. The courthouse is made of stone blocks along its base while the walls above are made of orange bricks accented in places by white stone. The stone base level of the building has one row of small windows while the level above the base has one row of similarly sized windows and sits at the same height as the front door, which is centered in the left side of the building. The second and third floors of the courthouse have two rows of windows across their walls. On the projecting section of the building, emerging from the left side of the courthouse, are four white columns extending from the bottom of the second floor to the top of the third floor. They sit above the front entrance of the courthouse and hold up an entablature with the words "A.D. Johnson Covnty 912" carved into it. At the left and right ends of the projecting section of the building are rectangular towers that extends a …
[Kaufman County Courthouse in Kaufman, TX]
Photograph of Kaufman County Courthouse in Kaufman, TX. The courthouse sits in front of a paved road which runs from the bottom left corner of the image to the right side, intersecting with a second road at the bottom of the photo. The corner of a sidewalk appears above the bottom right corner, occupied by a streetlight and a fire hydrant, as well as a short post reading "S Jackson" on its left side and "Nulserry" on its right. On the opposite side of the road, a sidewalk separates the pavement from the courthouse's lawn and is lined with parking meters. Growing in the lawn are small bushes and a few small trees, mostly planted around the three short white brick walls sitting in front of the courthouse's entrance. Two walkways run from the sidewalk, between the short walls, and up to the front doors of the courthouse, passing by a white statue on a tall rectangular base. The statue appears to be of a person holding a rifle while wearing a hat. The courthouse surrounds the statue as it consists of three tall rectangular sections, with one facing the sidewalk and sitting farther back while the other two are positioned closer to the sidewalk and overlap, in front of and on either side of the first section. All three sections have flat roof, though the middle one has a flagpole rising from its top. The section on the left is only made up by off-white bricks while the section on the right consists of brick walls and two rows of tall windows, which faces inward towards the statue. The middle section has a recessed space at its bottom that contains the front doors to the courthouse and a row of tall windows, shadowed by the wall above. One row …
[Lamar County Courthouse in Paris, TX]
Photograph of Lamar County Courthouse in Paris, TX. An intersection of dark paved roads occupies the bottom of the photo while a white car parks at the curb of a sidewalk running along the far side of the roads and around the edge of the courthouse. To the left of the sidewalk's corner is a yellow and red fire hydrant while to the right is a sign pointing to the right along with the text "One way". A person walks up the right half of the sidewalk towards the "One way" sign. The courthouse's yellow lawn is enclosed by a curb and is planted with short green bushes and two leafless trees that occupy the open corner of the lawn next to the sidewalk corner. In this part of the lawn, behind one of the trees, is a dark statue of a person standing on a tall white base with dark busts of other people above its bottom edge, one on each side of the base. Farther in the background, next to the second leafless tree, is a short stone slab with a dark rectangle, plus what may be an eagle motif, on its surface. The courthouse building itself is made of orange-brown stone bricks and includes two rectangular sections, one large with four floors and the other small with only two floors. The smaller section sits both closer to the camera and nearer the left road of the intersection and has two rows of tall windows across its walls. The side of the taller section of the courthouse facing the camera has five rows of windows across its side, with the bottommost row consisting of smaller windows set just above the ground. The front side of the section faces the right edge of the photo and contains the entrance …
[Lamb County Courthouse in Littlefield, TX]
Photograph of Lamb County Courthouse in Littlefield, TX. Paved ground surrounds the courthouse, interrupted by a median extending from the left edge of the photo into the center. A white car drives around the edge of the median, away from the camera and approaching a blue car parked in front of the courthouse to the right of the doors. Two trees sit on either side of the doors, with a flagpole standing next to the left tree. The entrance to the courthouse has white doors with a grid of square windows across them on the white walls around the doors. Surrounding this entryway is a darker material with the words "Lamb County" visible on it above the doors. The dark building material is used throughout the first-floor level of the building, while a lighter brick material is used for the second floor and a short rectangular structure on top of the roof. Two rows of windows span the width of the building, one across each floor of the courthouse.
[Lampasas County Courthouse in Lampasas, TX]
Photograph of Lampasas County Courthouse in Lampasas, TX. The courthouse sits at a corner next to two intersecting roads with parking spots lining the parts of the roads in front of the building's sidewalk. The only vehicle in the photo is a brown car sits parked on the right side of the intersection, facing the courthouse. At the corner of the sidewalk that encloses the courthouse is a streetlight and a telephone box. The small lawn surrounding the courthouse contains small bushes along the building's base and a few thin trees planted in front of the right side of the courthouse. The building is made of white stone bricks and has a white roof lined in red. Two rows of tall windows run across the width of the courthouse's walls. The windows on each row are grouped into pairs except for the ones on either side of the entrance to the courthouse, as they are in groups of three. The entrance is in the center of the left side of the building, set into a part of the building that projects outward a short distance from the wall. The front doors have two pilasters on either side of them and face a walkway that leads out to the courthouse's sidewalk. On the right side of the building, centered in the wall, is another outward projecting section of the wall that lacks an entrance. Above each third of the walls of the courthouse is a triangular shape in the roof's red edge. The roof itself is white and has two layers where the bottom one covers the corners of the building whereas the upper layers one covers the central sections of each wall. A clocktower sits in the center of the roof next to a small white chimney. The tower is …
[Limestone County Courthouse in Groesbeck, TX]
Photograph of Limestone County Courthouse in Groesbeck, TX. A white truck in the right side of the photo drives from a red brick road, past a grassy median, and towards the concrete driveway of the courthouse, which curves from the left side of the image towards the right. On either side of the driveway are small patches of grass in the form of a lawn and a median, while a black and white car sits parked in the driveway directly in front of the courthouse. A tall tree and multiple bushes are planed around the base of the building. The courthouse is made of dark red bricks and white stone and faces the right side of the photo, with a small set of stairs leading up to its entrance. The building has two horizontal rows of tall windows across the main section of the building as well as two horizontal rows of smaller windows, one near the roof's edge and one along the bottom edge of the building. The small windows near the edge of the roof have a small, railed balcony in front of them, spanning most of the building's width. For the main two horizontal rows of windows at the front of the courthouse, stone columns divide each vertical row of the windows. Additional columns appear on the left side of the building, which faces the left edge of the photo, and are holding up a pediment with a design carved at its top. The design is also used on either side of the courthouse's corners, at the edge of the roof. The roof itself is flat, with only two thin metal structures on top of it.
[Lipscomb County Courthouse in Lipscomb, TX]
Photograph of Lipscomb County Courthouse in Lipscomb, TX. The courthouse is surrounded by yellow grass as it faces the right edge of the photo. An off-camera tree's branches fill the top right corner of the photo while another tree grows to the left of a short set of stairs leading up to the courthouse's doors. Two rectangular blocks made up of red bricks sits on either side of the stairs, a material again only in bottommost level of the building which contains windows that sit just above the lawn. The doors of the courthouse meanwhile are set into white frames as are the windows around them, together forming a shape that curves into a half-circle at the top. Four white columns, two on either side of the doors, extend across two floors of the courthouse to support a white pediment attached at the roof's edge. On the white block between the columns and pediment is "19 Lipscomb Covnty 16" in dark letters. Two rows of tall windows, some with air conditioning units, span the width of both this side of the courthouse and the side facing the left edge of the photo, all set into walls made of yellow bricks. A few feet from the front edge of the courthouse the building rises up a few more feet to accommodate a row of short windows that sit above the lower roof of the building. A chimney rises from the higher roof.
[McLennan County Courthouse in Waco, TX]
Photograph of McLennan County Courthouse in Waco, TX. A busy road runs in front of the courthouse, occupied by different colored cars and trucks. A tall set of stairs runs from a sidewalk right in front of the road up to the doors of the courthouse, with white stone plinths bordering the stairs and rising in height at regular intervals. On either side of the stairs at ground level are green lawns and tall green trees whose foliage partially obscures the courthouse's walls. The doors to the building are white, as is the rest of the building, and have a pediment set above them with indistinguishable words written on it. Pairs of windows surround the doors on all sides, each with its own smaller pediment. Six columns rise over two floors of the building, three on either side of the door, and hold of the base of a central section of the third floor that sticks out from the rest of the building. The rest of the building consists mostly of walls extending on either side of the middle section, each with four rows of windows with the bottommost row set right above ground level at the same height as the base of the stairs. A pediment occupies the center of both walls' rooflines, with more columns appearing to support the decoration. The roof of the building slopes upward, with a small rectangular structure with its own sloping roof sitting above the pediment on the courthouse's right wall. The roof over the center of the courthouse has baes for multiple humanoid statues that stand around a circular base with tall windows interrupted at regular intervals by pairs of columns atop which sit sculptures of birds. A large dome tops the structure, with its own smaller dome sitting on small columns …
[Milam City Jail House in Cameron, TX]
Photograph of Milam City Jail House in Cameron, TX. A cracked pavement road fills the bottom third of the image, beyond which a red brick building with white stone accents sits amongst greenery. Bushes of varying sizes line the building and occupy its lawn, which is enclosed by a curb and has posts along the edge facing the road as well as a red and white fire hydrant towards the center of the image. To the left of the courthouse and its plants is a white car parked facing the building next to a red car that's similarly parked. The courthouse itself appears to have a central tower with rectangular sections extending from each of its sides, all rising to a lower height than the tower. The first floor of the building has tall windows with half-circle tops outlined with white stone. Above a line of white stone running across all of the courthouse's walls are the second and third floors each with a row of rectangular windows. Each of these windows has a block of white stone set above its top. The tower has a row of windows in its walls as well. Each corner of the building has a block of white stone shaped like an upside-down cone sitting on a cylindrical brick base, while rectangular red brick shapes sit in each wall with a short turreted wall in-between each one. To the right of the courthouse hangs a sign with partially visible text reading as "Hote Mila".
[Milam County Courthouse in Cameron, TX]
Photograph of Milam County Courthouse in Cameron, TX. The courthouse faces the left side of the photo as it sits on a green lawn enclosed by a sidewalk, in front of which is a green parallel-parked car. The corner of a second vehicle appears in the bottom right corner of the photo. On the right side of the courthouse's lawn is a green bench that a person sits on, accompanied by a tall tree and a short lamp post. On the left side of the image, next to the walkway leading to the courthouse's doors, is a white sign with a seal on it and "Navy" written on it. The courthouse's entrance has a small set of stairs leading up to its windowed doors which are enclosed by a pair of columns on either side, as well as a pediment above the columns. The entrance, like the rest of the building, is made of stone and bricks that are white in color. The courthouse has a total of four rows of windows, all of them containing tall windows except for the bottommost one just above the lawn, which has shorter windows. Rectangular columns appear at each comer of the building and on the front of the building, all sitting above the level of the courthouse's doors. The columns on the front of the courthouse lead up to a pediment with a clock in its center. The roof of the courthouse it flat except for the pointed tops of the A-frame pediments that sit at the top of each side of the building.
[Montgomery County Courthouse in Conroe, TX]
Photograph of Montgomery County Courthouse in Conroe, TX. A road and a line of parking spaces span the width of the paved ground in front of the flat-roofed courthouse, with a single car parked in one of the lot spaces. A sidewalk runs in front of the parking spaces with parking meters set at regular intervals on it. A green lawn containing short green trees and lines of bushes sits between the sidewalk and the courthouse, interrupted only by a walkway that leads up to the entrance of the courthouse. A base made of bricks sits in front of the stairs leading up to the courthouse's doors and has two flagpoles on it, one with the Texas flag and the other with the American flag. An overhang with the words "Montgomery County Courthouse" on it in brown letters is held up by white rectangular columns, providing shade over the doors that lead into the courthouse. On either side of this part of the building are additional sections that extend farther out onto the lawn, both with a single row of tall windows spanning the building's width. Behind this initial building is a second one made mostly of white stone, towering into the sky and made up by multiple sections of varying heights arranged symmetrically around the center y-axis of the courthouse. One section of this taller building has the words "Montgomery County Courthouse" carved into it.
[Moore Conty Courthouse in Dumas, TX]
Photograph of Moore County Courthouse in Dumas, TX. A sidewalk separates a rough road from the courthouse's lawn, in which tall green trees grown in sections of lawn divided up by the sidewalk. In the ride side of the photo, on a section of sidewalk, is a tall stone rectangle with indistinguishable text on it and a small pot of flowers on its base, likely a memorial or monument. More trees and bushes occupy other sections of the lawn, surrounding the corners of the courthouse. A short set of stairs leads from the ground to the entrance to the courthouse, which faces the left edge of the photo. Three arches appear in a rectangular entryway made of white stone blocks, with a relief sculpture of a person in each top corner of the entryway's structure. A stone plinth sits in front of the rightmost arch. The remainder of the courthouse sits on a stone block base and is made of small brown bricks, with smaller sections of stone used as accents around and above windows. The building has three rows of windows anda flat roof, with bird sculptures attached to each corner of the courthouse.
[Morris County Courthouse in Daingerfield, TX]
Photograph of Morris County Courthouse in Daingerfield, TX. A multi-lane road divided by a thin median fills the bottom half of the photo, beyond which is a green lawn the courthouse sits in. A walkway leads from the left edge of the photo up to the entrance of the courthouse, running past a rectangular sign with "Morris County Courthouse" written in it and another rectangular block with a small motif on it. The courthouse itself is constructed with a flat white roof, pale walls interrupted only by tall windows, and dark stairs leading from the ground to the building's front doors. White railing runs along the sides of the stairs as well as the edge of the dark base courthouse sits on. Two groups of tall wooden columns sit on either side of the entrance's stairs, a few feet away from the doors and rising to the height of the roof.
[Navarro County Courthouse in Corsicana, TX]
Photograph of Navarro County Courthouse in Corsicana, TX. A small field of yellow grass leads up to a road with a line of cars parallel-parked next to a sidewalk occupied at regular intervals by telephone poles. The courthouse sits on the green lawn enclosed by the sidewalk, with multiple trees growing near the building and the telephone poles. A flagpole rises amongst foliage near the courthouse's entrance, flying the Texas and American flags. The building itself is made of white stone and brick with orange tile roofing. There is a central section obscured by trees, though a triangular pediment is visible, above which is a clock tower sitting on the roof. On either side of the central portion of the courthouse are additional rectangular sections, both connected to the central section by narrow walls. Columns occupy the middle of both rectangular sections. Each section of the building has four rows of windows spanning their width, including a row of smaller windows at the top and bottom edges of the courthouse.
[New Walker County Courthouse in Huntsville, TX]
Photograph of New Walker County Courthouse in Huntsville, TX. A road runs in front of the courthouse with three vehicles parked at the curb of the building's property, all facing the left side of the image. The entrance to the courthouse is set into a brick wall whose sides extends outwards and to the edge of the sidewalk, each one bordering an elevated lawn with bushes and small plants. Above the level of the entrance spans the rest of the building, which consists of two floors that each have a row of tall windows across the courthouse's width. A white platform, spanning the width of the building and built with black railing, separates the second and third floor windows while brick columns separate windows vertically into groups of four. Above the third floor sit the top portion of the building, on the side of which is written "Walker County Courthouse" in large black letters. The roof of the courthouse slopes upward to a short rectangular block with the same width as the building.
[Newton County Courthouse in Newton, TX]
Photograph of Newton County Courthouse in Newton, TX. The courthouse sits on a green lawn and is partially obscured by the foliage of tall trees planted throughout the lawn. The building is made of orange stone with white tiles on for the roofing and includes a tall clock tower at its top. The entrance of the building faces the left side of the photo and has two white doors shadowed by a balcony, above which is a column of three sets of windows. The entire building has four rows of windows spanning the width of its sides, with the topmost row of windows projecting out from the roof slightly. The clocktower on the roof sits on a short sloping base and has rectangular columns that hold up the tall sloping top of the tower, which has a white clock set into each of its sides.
[Ochiltree County Courthouse in Perryton, TX]
Photograph of Ochiltree County Courthouse in Perryton, TX. A road fills the foreground of the photo with a white car peeking into the photo from the left side while a second car sits parked at the edge of the sidewalk that runs in front of the courthouse property. Short orange bushes sit in long lines of yellow grass in front of the courthouse along with tall leafless trees. More bushes and trees with leaves sit along the base of the building. A short set of stairs leads up to the doors of the pale, brick and stone courthouse, which are windowed and set into dark frames. The section of the building the doors are set into faces the left edge of the photo and sticks out slightly from the rest of the building. The courthouse has three rows of windows with two of them being above the level of the doors while the last row sits below the doors' height in the building. The roof of the courthouse is flat with no ornamentation. Telephone poles and the liens attached to them occupy various positions in the photo including on the sidewalk, to the right of the courthouse, and in the background beyond the courthouse where flat-topped red and orange brick buildings sit with a few cars parked in front of them.
[Old Morris Courthouse in Daingerfield, TX]
Photograph of the old Morris Courthouse in Daingerfield, TX. Loose rocks occupy the foreground of the photo, spreading across part of a paved parking lot that sits in front of the courthouse. The courthouse is surrounded by a small green lawn bordered by a short concrete wall, with short bushes and tall trees growing amongst the grass. The courthouse itself is made of white bricks constructed to form a building with a section projecting from each side of the central part of the building, creating a square cross shape. The front of the building faces the camera directly and has green doors in its center. Two rows of tall windows run across every side of the building, with brick triangles pointed down sitting between the tops of each window. At the top of the building is a small dome partially obscured from view by a white brick wall. A tall, thin metal structure rises from the top of the dome while powerlines crisscross the sky behind it.
[Parmer County Courthouse in Farwell, TX]
Photograph of Parmer County Courthouse in Farwell, TX. A river extends from the bottom right corner of the image, running to distant trees in the left, middle area of the photo. On the right shore of the river are large fluffy trees whose foliage seems to stretch out towards the river. On the left shore, in the bottom left corner of the image, concrete slopes down into the water while a bit farther into the photo sits a sidewalk running alongside the river. Standing near the edge of the sidewalk closest to the viewer are two older adults: a man with glasses and short silver hair in a yellow short-sleeved shirt and dark line-patterned pants and a woman with short gray hair wearing a long-sleeved purple shirt and long pale-pink pants with open-toe sandals. Beyond the duo is a large tree with its branches outstretched over the edge of the river.
[Portrait of Peter Feresten]
Photograph of Peter Feresten. Feresten is wearing a light button-up dress-shirt and tinted eyeglasses.
[Rains County Courthouse in Emory, TX]
Photograph of Rains County Courthouse in Emory, TX. A parking lot with multiple parked cars sits in the foreground in front of the courthouse, the pavement seemingly wet. The courthouse itself is surrounded by a small area of green grass and tall trees enclosed by a short concrete wall. The walls are made of orange bricks while the roof has green shingles. The entrance to the building faces towards the right edge of the photo and has a set of windowed doors shadowed by a small triangular pediment. The building is constructed as a square with short rectangular sections projecting out of each corner of the main square section of the building, with the entrance to the courthouse set into a side of the square portion of the building. Across all of the courthouse's walls are two rows of windows, separated on the walls of the square section by wide pilasters. The tops of the rectangular corner sections are flat while the sides of the square part of the building have large triangular pediments with circle motifs in them. The roof across the pediments and the rest of the square portion of the building are covered with green shingles. In the center of the roof sits an orange dome with a thin metal rod affixed to its center, rising a short distance upwards.
[Red River County Courthouse in Clarksville, TX]
Photograph of Red River County Courthouse in Clarksville, TX. Shores made of white rock appear in the bottom left corner and center of the photo with both short and tall grasses growing between cracks in the rocks. Water fills the space between the two shotes, occupying most of the lower third of the image. Trees grow on the central patch of stone and on the grassy shore beyond it, forming a forest. A pedestrian is visible in the right side of the photo as they walk past a small hill towards the forest, while a parked car sits mostly hidden by leaves farther up the hill. Foliage fills the middle third of the photo, obscuring the base of a tall rocky wall which almost touches the top edge of the image. Patches of dark green grow on the side of the rockface while trees grow on the top.
[Red River County Courthouse in Clarksville, TX]
Photograph of Red River County Courthouse in Clarksville, TX.A parking lot surrounded by green grass sits at the base of the courthouse, with six visible cars occupying the lot. The building itself is made of brown and orange bricks and stones, with a flat roof and a clocktower at its top. Two rectangular sections project out from the central portion of the building as a corner of the courthouse faces the camera, with the rest of the building's structure not visible. The viewable portion of the courthouse has two rows of tall windows and one row of circular windows above them, above which is the blue edge of the roof. At each corner of the building is a stone structure shaped like a thin cone. The clocktower on top of the building has one window in each side of its base, while the clockfaces are set into the curving, shingled top of the tower. A small, pointed roof sits on small columns at the top of the clocktower. To the right of the main courthouse building is another building rectangular in shape and made of the same materials, though seemingly not physically connected to the main building. It has two rows of buildings, a flat roof, and a chimney at its top. A white door with a pale cloth overhang shading it sits near the left corner of the building.
[Robertson County Courthouse in Franklin, TX]
Photograph of Robertson County Courthouse in Franklin, TX. Telephone poles sit on a stretch of green grass next to a section of paved ground that two cars sit on as they parallel park next to the courthouse's sidewalk. Grass fills the space between the sidewalk and the courthouse and contains multiple large green trees whose foliage almost entirely covers the walls of the courthouse. The building has orange brick walls with a row of circular windows near the edge of its dark gray roofline. Each side of the courthouse has a square section that sticks out from the center of the building. The roof on these sections has stones in the shape of flat-topped cones on each corner. In the center section of the roof sits a clock tower which has one tall window in each side of its orange brick base. The clockfaces sit on the sides of the tower's brown, sloping roof which has a small platform at its top with a column-supported roof. Upon that pointed roof is a weathervane.
[Rockwall County Courthouse in Rockwall, TX]
Photograph of Rockwall County Courthouse in Rockwall, TX. A paved parking lot sits in front of the courthouse with multiple cars and trucks occupying it, slightly obscuring the small lawn surrounding the building. The courthouse is constructed by off-white bricks and has a short set of stairs leading up to the windowed doors of the building. Across the walls of the courthouse are two rows of tall windows spaced a handful of feet apart from one another. In the center of the flat top of the building is another, short section with a single row of windows across its sides. This part of the courthouse is also made up by off-white bricks and has a flat roof. Two tall, thin metal structures rise from the top of the courthouse along as thin powerlines crisscross the sky around them.
[Sabine County Courthouse in Hemphill, TX]
Photograph of Sabine County Courthouse in Hemphill, TX. A paved parking lot occupies the foreground of the photo, occupied by multiple vehicles. A strip of yellow grass with telephone poles sitting in it separates the parking lot from the courthouse. A large tree grows behind the rightmost pole, partially obscuring the right side of the courthouse. The front side of the building faces the left side of the photo and has smaller trees growing around it. The courthouse's walls are a pale yellow, and its roof is made up by gray shingles. A set of stairs lined in red along its walls rises up to the front doors of the building, which sit in a large second-floor alcove set into the building. Rectangular columns rise through and beyond the alcove, ending at the top of the third floor of the building. The courthouse has a total of three rows of windows with the bottommost row being at the level of the entrance's stairs. The roof of the building slopes up to a flat top except for a triangular section that sits above the center of the front side of the building.
[San Augustine County CH - San Augustine]
Photograph of San Augustine County CH - San Augustine. A yellow and green lawn surrounds the courthouse along with a line of shrubs and a handful of trees, with a tall stone slab sitting on a base in the lawn. The stone has some readable text including "In memory of those who lost their lives", "Killed in action", and "Killed in service", likely indicating it's a memorial. A sidewalk cuts through the lawn from the left side of the photo and leads up to the front doors of the courthouse. The doors have dark glass as do the three columns of windows above them. The building is made of an off-white stone with black scuffs in various places, and has a roof covered in light-colored tiles that slope upwards slightly. Across the walls of the courthouse are three rows of windows, with the row of smaller windows placed just above the ground at the bottom of the building.
[San Jacinto County Courthouse in Cold Springs, TX]
Photograph of San Jacinto County Courthouse in Cold Springs, TX. The courthouse faces the left edge of the image as a paved road and a strip of grass runs past its right side. A chain-link fence encloses the property of the courthouse, containing the building and the lawn it sits on. Multiple tall trees grow around the courthouse, obscuring most of the right side of the building. A large triangular pediment supported by tall columns sits at the center of both the front and right side of the building, with a set of stairs leading up to the front set of columns where the courthouse's entrance is. Each pediment and its columns sit in front of a centered section of the building that projects out slightly from the main part of the courthouse, which is rectangular in form. The projecting sections have walls that come to a triangular point above the pediments sitting below them. Across the main rectangular part of the building are three visible rows of windows. On the flat roof of the building is a chimney and a tall, thin metal structure.
[Sherman County Courthouse in Stratford TX]
Photograph of Sherman County Courthouse in Stratford TX. A walkway comprised of squares leads up to a corner of the courthouse, patches of grass growing between some of the cracks in the path. On either side of the path is green grass with tall trees growing in the right half while a short tree grows in the left half. The courthouse is made of white stone blocks and a has pink-tiled overhang running below the edge of the roof on each side of the building. Above the overhang is a tan wall that has a shape including rectangles with a half-circle at their top used at the left, used three times on each side of the building at the left, right, and center of each side. The doors into the building are on the side of the building facing the left edge of the photo, shaded by an overhang with a balcony atop it. The Overhang is supported by rectangular columns on short white walls what sit on either side of dark pink stairs that lead from the ground to the doors into the courthouse. Attached to the corner of the building facing the camera is a wire that stretches to the top left corner of the photo, attaching to the edge of a tall pole.
[Smith County Courthouse in Tyler, TX]
Photograph of Smith County Courthouse in Tyler, TX. A pool of water sits at the bottom edge of the photo, bordered by a line of bricks has small spouts with water rising into the air a short distance. A rough, tiled ground extends away from the water and farther into the photo, past lines of trees and shaded benches. In the right side of the photo, on the rough ground, sits a flagpole flying the American and Texas flags. At the far end of the tiled ground is a red brick road lined on both sides by strips of green grass, running across the width of the photo, with multiple cars parked along both the near and far sides of the road. Across the road sits the courthouse building, surrounded by green grass, trees, and bushes. The building is mostly white except for the brown walls on either side of its windowed doors. Five rows of windows span the width of the building above the doors, with the three central columns of windows grouped together in the center. Behind this building, extending on either side of it, are lower walls with tall windows. Both this section and the first have flat roofs.
[Somervell County Courthouse in Glenrose, TX]
Photograph of Somervell County Courthouse in Glenrose, TX. A parking lot sits in front of the courthouse, occupied by multiple cars yellow, silver, and black in color. Beyond the parking lot and to the right of the courthouse is a short circular structure with stone walls, no windows, and an upward sloping roof with dark shingles and white speakers. Directly in front of the courthouse is a short flat structure, also made of stones, with poles on either side of it, rising a short distance to hold up a horizontal pole. On that pole sits a flat cut-out of a green bipedal dinosaur while a white sign with red writing hangs below it. The courthouse building itself is made of pale orange stones and has two rows of white-framed windows set into frames with half-circle tops. The front doors of the building are white and have a half-circle window sitting above them. A white triangular shape sticks out from the shingled roof slightly, above the center column of windows and just above the roof's edge with "1893" in white letters written in its center. The pale green roof slopes upwards above each section of the building, all meeting at a flat top in which sits a short white tower with a tall, upward-sloping roof.
[Titus County Courthouse in Mt. Pleasant, TX]
Photograph of Titus County Courthouse in Mt. Pleasant, TX. Four cars sit in a parking lot placed in front of the entrance to the courthouse, which faces towards the right side of the photo. A short set of stairs leads from a sidewalk set between the parking lot and the courthouse to the building's front doors. At the left corner of the courthouse is a flagpole with two flags flying from it, one being the American flag and the other a white flag with a red and blue rounded star on it. To the right of the flagpole is a horizontal stone slab with circular designs and writing on it. The courthouse's entrance consists of glass doors in blue frames, which are recessed into the building somewhat and surrounded by a blue, geometric arch that layers inward towards the doors. The section of the building the entrance is attached to is a squat cube made of silver metal with very few, small windows across its body and pale thin lines spaced at regular intervals across the building's width. A second section sits atop the first, much shorter in height as well as smaller in length and width, and is made of gray metal with numerous thin lines across its height. A concrete slab is centered on both visible side of the second section, with the front-facing slab gray in color and possessing a plain clockface while the slab on the left side of the building is yellow. A third and final section of the building sits on the second and similarly has smaller proportions, though this section lacks decoration. Atop the third section is a tall, thin metal structure with the outline of a star on it.
[Upshur County Courthouse in Gilmer, TX]
Photograph of Upshur County Courthouse in Gilmer, TX. A sidewalk lined with parking meters separates the green lawn of the courthouse from a dark brick road on which a yellow car drives, partially appearing in the bottom right corner of the photo. A telephone pole and a streetlight sit in the left edge of the courthouse's lawn while bushes and tall trees sits behind them and on the right edge of the lawn. A short set of stairs mostly obscured by grass sits in the right edge of the lawn and leads from the brick road. through the lawn. and up to a large patch of brown dirt. At the top of the dirt is the courthouse, a building made consisting of multiple rectangular sections made with orange bricks and accented with white stone. The entryway to the building is one section and has three archways leading to the front doors of the building, with "Upshur County Court House" written above the arches. This section has one row of windows across its width. Two additional sections sit on either end of the entryway and rise taller than it, accommodating two rows of windows across their widths. A third section sits between them and behind the entryway, with two visible rows of windows. A fourth and final section sits on top of the third, smaller in width and length as well as rising to a shorter height. A short chimney rises from the roof of the fourth section, which has a flat top like the roofs of the other sections.
[Van Zandt County Courthouse in Canton, TX]
Photograph of Van Zandt County Courthouse in Canton, TX. In the foreground of the photo, paved ground leads to a road that runs across the width of the photo, on which a white car drives as seen at the right edge of the image. On the far side of the road is a sidewalk that divides the leaf-strewn lawn of the courthouse from the road. A large tree occupies the left side of the lawn while two bushes line a short set of stairs that lead from the sidewalk to the courthouse's entrance. The building itself is made of white blocks arranged like bricks with a large, rectangular shape to the main structure and a flat roof. Two smaller rectangular sections, much shorter in height and stacked one on top of the other, sit on the roof of the main part of the building. A row of short windows runs along the width of the courthouse just above the ground while a row of much taller windows spans the rest of the building's wall space.
[Ward County Courthouse in Monahans, TX]
Photograph of Ward County Courthouse in Monahans, TX. The courthouse faces towards the right edge of the photo as a sidewalk separates the building's lawn from the paved road running from the left edge of the photo to the bottom right corner. A section of the sidewalk near the center of the photo curves outwards to accommodate a patch of yellow and brown shrubs, next to which is a small brown box with a red top labeled "US mail". Behind the shrubs it a stone block with and upward-slanting top and indistinguishable writing, positioned to the right and in front of a taller stone slab with writing placed within a shield shape on the slab's surface. Throughout the lawn of the courthouse are small brown bushes and green trees, planted at the edge of the sidewalk and the bottom of the courthouse's walls. The building itself is made of stone white blocks accented with gray stone blocks, constructed in a mostly cubic shape with two rectangular sections projecting outwards at the front of the building. The sides of the building connected to these projecting sections rise to a lower height than the main part of the building. The shorter sections have five rows of windows across the width of their sides while the main section has seven. A tall geometrical arch, rising to the height of the smaller sections of the courthouse, sits in the center of the building's front side and has "Ward County" written across its top.
[Wharton County in Wharton, TX]
Photograph of Wharton County in Wharton, TX. A green lawn occupied by large bushes and tall trees leads up from a sidewalk to the white walls of the courthouse, which faces towards the left edge of the image. The building has a short section a taller portion rising above it, both made of white concrete. The entrance to the courthouse is in the shorter section and appears in the left side of the photo with a small set of stairs leading up to its glass doors. "Wharton County Courthouse" is written above the entrance to the building, though the words in the photo are reversed. A row of short windows along the ground and a row of taller windows both span the width of the building. The roof of both the shorter and taller sections of the courthouse have flats roofs. The taller section also has two rows of tall windows across its width as well as a clockface above the two central set of windows in its front wall.
[Wheeler County Courthouse in Wheeler County, TX]
Photograph of Wheeler County Courthouse in Wheeler, TX. Paved ground fills the foreground with a single car visible at the photo's right edge, driving off-camera. A yellow lawn enclosed by short white walls sits farther into the scene, multiple tall trees without foliage growing in the lawn while a telephone pole sits in the left side of the photo next to a sign with an arrow and a silhouette of Texas containing the text "Farm Road" and the numbers "2473". A flagpole also rises from the left half of the lawn, the American flag flying at its top. The courthouse itself is made mostly of red bricks with lines of white brick at its base, top, and under each window. The entrance faces the edge of the photo and includes a red door with a half-circle window above it. Four white columns rise across all three floors of the building to support the top white edge of the roof. "Wheeler County Courthouse" is written with large black letters across this white edge. The courthouse has three rows of windows across each side of the building, each one set in white frames. The roof of the courthouse slants upward slightly and three include triangular pediments on its front side, one in the center, and one at each end of the building. Another triangular pediment is seen in the center of the side facing the left edge of the photo.
[Wheeler County Courthouse in Wheeler, TX]
Photograph of Wheeler County Courthouse in Wheeler, TX. A driveway extends from the foreground of the photo, leading to a paved road that runs alongside the edge of a sidewalk that sits in front of the courthouse. One car drives from the right side of the photo on the road while seven others sit parked in front of the courthouse. The building is wide enough to extend off-camera in both directions and is made up white bricks. The door to the courthouse sits in the center of the building with pilasters on either side of the entrance, while an overhanging ledge sits above. The courthouse has three rows of windows across its width, with the bottommost row sitting on the same level as the door. The top two rows are almost entirely covered by a row of tall columns. The flat roof of the courthouse is lined by an off-white balcony.
[Wilbarger County Courthouse in Vernon, TX]
Photograph of Wilbarger County Courthouse in Vernon, TX. A green lawn fills the photo's foreground, planted with bushes that contain pink flowers. Beyond the grass is a gravel area with a bench facing a short water fountain, wooden walls containing the fallen water while sitting on a brick base. Tall unlit lamps with teardrop-shaped tops sit in the grass and behind the fountain. In the area beyond the fountain is a wall of green foliage tall enough to almost entirely block the courthouse from view. What is visible of the buildings includes walls made up by stone bricks and multiple green A-frame roofs. Additional foliage extends from off-camera tree silhouetted against the cloudy sky, filling the top corners of the photo.
[Wood County Courthouse in Quitman, TX]
Photograph of Wood County Courthouse in Quitman, TX. A road fills the foreground of the photo with two white lines extending from the bottom left corner of the image to the edge of a sidewalk farther into scene. Two cars park in front of the courthouse at the edge of the sidewalk, which has an empty flagpole rising from its center. Small bushes line the bottom edge of the courthouse while tree branches emerge from the left and right sides of the photo. The courthouse is a flat-roofed, rectangular building made of red bricks with a short set of stairs leading from the sidewalk to the white doors of the building. A brick overhang supported by four brick columns provides shade for the doors and the windows on either side of them. Above the overhang sit four white columns spanning the second and third floors of the building in height, all supporting a triangular pediment with the outline of a circle in its center. A set of glass doors sit between the middle two column, leading into the second floor of the courthouse. Across the width of the building are three rows of windows, one for each floor of the courthouse, with an additional row of smaller windows partially visible above the courthouse's lawn.
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