Misplaced Pages

Archer County Courthouse and Jail
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Texas State Antiquities Landmark
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark
Archer County Courthouse and JailShow map of TexasArcher County Courthouse and JailShow map of the United States
Location	Public Sq. and Sycamore and Pecan Sts., Archer City, Texas
Coordinates	33°35′42″N 98°37′31″W / 33.59500°N 98.62528°W / 33.59500; -98.62528
Area	4 acres (1.6 ha)
Built	1891-92
Architect	Alonzo N. Dawson
Architectural style	Romanesque Revival
NRHP reference No.	77001424
TSAL No.	8200000020
RTHL No.	191
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	December 23, 1977
Designated TSAL	May 28, 1981
Designated RTHL	1963

The Archer County Courthouse and Jail is a historic courthouse building on Public Square and Sycamore and Pecan Streets in Archer City, Texas.

Archer County was organized in 1880. The Romanesque style courthouse was built during 1891-92 and replaced a wooden courthouse from 1880. An architectural design competition was held, and the Romanesque Revival-style design of architect Alonzo N. Dawson of Fort Worth was chosen out of 25 submissions.

The contract amount for construction was $32,500. The exterior walls of the courthouse are of brown sandstone obtained from a nearby quarry. Originally, the building was two-story and rising from the center of the courthouse was a massive octagonal tower, with four clock faces, terminated with a cupola. The tower was removed in 1928 and a third floor was added.

The jail, a block north of the courthouse, was built in 1910.

The courthouse and jail were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Archer County, Texas
• Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks in Archer County
• List of county courthouses in Texas

References

1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. ^ Willard B. Robinson (1977). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Archer County Courthouse and Jail". National Archives. Retrieved April 5, 2018. Downloading may be slow.

Bibliography

• Kelsey, Mavis P, Sr.; Dyal, Donald H. (1993). The Courthouses of Texas. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 0-89096-546-3.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

External links

• Media related to Archer County Courthouse and Jail at Wikimedia Commons

v t e National Register of Historic Places in Texas
Lists by county	Anderson Andrews Angelina Aransas Archer Armstrong Atascosa Austin Bailey Bandera Bastrop Baylor Bee Bell Bexar Blanco Borden Bosque Bowie Brazoria Brazos Brewster Briscoe Brooks Brown Burleson Burnet Caldwell Calhoun Callahan Cameron Camp Carson Cass Castro Chambers Cherokee Childress Clay Cochran Coke Coleman Collin Collingsworth Colorado Comal Comanche Concho Cooke Coryell Cottle Crane Crockett Crosby Culberson Dallam Dallas Dawson Deaf Smith Delta Denton DeWitt Dickens Dimmit Donley Duval Eastland Ector Edwards El Paso Ellis Erath Falls Fannin Fayette Fisher Floyd Foard Fort Bend Franklin Freestone Frio Gaines Galveston Garza Gillespie Glasscock Goliad Gonzales Gray Grayson Gregg Grimes Guadalupe Hale Hall Hamilton Hansford Hardeman Hardin Harris Harrison Hartley Haskell Hays Hemphill Henderson Hidalgo Hill Hockley Hood Hopkins Houston Howard Hudspeth Hunt Hutchinson Irion Jack Jackson Jasper Jeff Davis Jefferson Jim Hogg Jim Wells Johnson Jones Karnes Kaufman Kendall Kenedy Kent Kerr Kimble King Kinney Kleberg Knox La Salle Lamar Lamb Lampasas Lavaca Lee Leon Liberty Limestone Lipscomb Live Oak Llano Loving Lubbock Lynn Madison Marion Martin Mason Matagorda Maverick McCulloch McLennan McMullen Medina Menard Midland Milam Mills Mitchell Montague Montgomery Moore Morris Motley Nacogdoches Navarro Newton Nolan Nueces Ochiltree Oldham Orange Palo Pinto Panola Parker Parmer Pecos Polk Potter Presidio Rains Randall Reagan Real Red River Reeves Refugio Roberts Robertson Rockwall Runnels Rusk Sabine San Augustine San Jacinto San Patricio San Saba Schleicher Scurry Shackelford Shelby Sherman Smith Somervell Starr Stephens Sterling Stonewall Sutton Swisher Tarrant Taylor Terrell Terry Throckmorton Titus Tom Green Travis Trinity Tyler Upshur Upton Uvalde Val Verde Van Zandt Victoria Walker Waller Ward Washington Webb Wharton Wheeler Wichita Wilbarger Willacy Williamson Wilson Winkler Wise Wood Yoakum Young Zapata Zavala
National parks	Big Bend National Park Guadalupe Mountains National Park
Other lists	Bridges National Historic Landmarks National Natural Landmarks Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks
United States National Register of Historic Places listings Keeper of the Register History of the National Register of Historic Places Property types Historic district Contributing property

v t e Municipalities and communities of Archer County, Texas, United States
County seat: Archer City
Cities	Archer City Holliday Scotland
Towns	Lakeside City Megargel Windthorst‡
Unincorporated communities	Dads Corner Dundee Mankins
Ghost towns	Anarene Huff
Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties
Texas portal United States portal

This article about a property in Texas on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e

• Courthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Texas
• Government buildings completed in 1891
• Buildings and structures in Archer County, Texas
• Jails on the National Register of Historic Places in Texas
• National Register of Historic Places in Archer County, Texas
• Texas State Antiquities Landmarks
• Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks
• Texas Registered Historic Place stubs