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Fort Worth, Texas
Fort Worth is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat of Tarrant County, Texas, Tarrant County, covering nearly into Denton County, Texas, Denton, Johnson County, Texas, Johnson, Parker County, Texas, Parker, and Wise County, Te ...
, United States.
History
The Tarrant County Courthouse was designed by the architecture firm of Frederick C. Gunn and Louis Curtiss
Louis Singleton Curtiss (July 1, 1865 – June 24, 1924) was a Canadian-born American architect. Notable as a pioneer of the curtain wall design, he was once described as "the Frank Lloyd Wright of Kansas City".Kansas City Public Library"The Fra ...
and built by the Probst Construction Company of Chicago, 1893–1895. It is a pink Texas granite
Granite ( ) is a coarse-grained (phanerite, phaneritic) intrusive rock, intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase. It forms from magma with a high content of silica and alkali metal oxides that slowly coo ...
building in Renaissance Revival
Renaissance Revival architecture (sometimes referred to as "Neo-Renaissance") is a group of 19th-century architectural revival styles which were neither Greek Revival nor Gothic Revival but which instead drew inspiration from a wide range of ...
style, closely resembling the Texas State Capitol with the exception of the clock tower. The cost was $408,840 and citizens considered it such a public extravagance that a new County Commissioners' Court was elected in 1894.
A monument dedicated to Confederate Army soldiers was erected on the grounds by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1953. In 1958, a Civil Courts Building was constructed on the west side of the courthouse. In 2012, a $4.5 million renovation to the clock tower was completed. In 2013, the Civil Courts Building was demolished.
The Tarrant County Courthouse currently houses the Tarrant County clerk's office, probate
In common law jurisdictions, probate is the judicial process whereby a will is "proved" in a court of law and accepted as a valid public document that is the true last testament of the deceased; or whereby, in the absence of a legal will, the e ...
and county courts at law, a law library, and the Tarrant County facilities management department.
See also
*National Register of Historic Places listings in Tarrant County, Texas
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Tarrant County, Texas.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Tarrant County, Texas. T ...
* Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks in Tarrant County
* Monument to Confederate war soldiers, Fort Worth
References
External links
Architecture in Fort Worth: Tarrant County Courthouse
with exterior and interior photos Buildings and structures in Fort Worth, Texas Buildings and structures in Tarrant County, Texas Courthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Texas National Register of Historic Places in Fort Worth, Texas County courthouses in Texas Clock towers in Texas {{Texas-NRHP-stub