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[Tarrant County Courthouse in Fort Worth, TX]
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Photograph of Tarrant County Courthouse in Fort Worth, TX. The courthouse sits at the end of a city street with two shorter buildings on either side of a wide, multi-lane road. The building on the left has a flat exterior with three rows of windows above its first floor and a sign hanging from the one corner appearing in the photo, spelling out "Union" on a rectangle and "Bank" on vertical squares. Two cars park below the sign next to the bank's American flag decorated curb. The building on the right side of the street has a flat overhang shading the first level of the building while the top two floors are lined with arched windows, each with its own small orange overhang atop it. Two rectangular signs hang near the edge of the building, one saying "H & H coffee shop" and the other advertising Pepsi and H & H Restaurant. At the end f the street, the courthouse sits behind a sidewalk lined with streetlamps and stoplights with traffic signs affixed to them. A short set of stairs leads from the sidewalk to the entrance of the building where multiple windows surround the front doors and sit in shade under a small balcony held up by four pairs of columns. The columns rise above two of the courthouse's floors, above which the balcony sits at the third-floor level. A fourth floor sits near the top of the building, with additional pairs of columns separating each section of windows on the third and fourth floors. The section of the courthouse where the entrance is located sits in the middle of two other sections of the building which extend off-camera on either side of the central portion. Decorated arches and arches windows line the roof's edge while dark roofs slope …