Harrison County Courthouse Marshall Texas. (original) (raw)

The former Harrison County Courthouse lighted for Christmas
Photo courtesy Lori Martin

Marshall has long been famous for the elaborate holiday lighting of their courthouse. Strictly speaking, the building is technically the former courthouse. It is now the Harrison County Historical Museum.

[ Holiday Trail of Lights by Bob Bowman]

The current courthouse is a modern 1964 design and is located somewhere else.

The 1964 Harrison County courthouse is a modern structure of glass and brick and was designed by the architectural firm of Turnbull, Inc.

The Fourth Harrison County Courthouse

- Marshall, Texas

Houston at Washington St., Marshall
Today the Harrison County Historical Museum
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark

The 1900 former courthouse
Photo courtesy Terry Jeanson, December 2007

Date - 1900
Architect - J. Reily Gordon
Style - Renaissance Revival / Beaux Arts
Material - Granite, stone and marble

This building is sometimes compared with Gordon's 1901 McLennan County Courthouse in Waco, Texas.

The 1900 former courthouse as it appeared in 1939
Photo courtesy TXDoT

Historical Marker:

Harrison County Courthouse

Built 1900. Cost $62,000. Third on this site. (Little Virginia, 1851; brick Gothic, 1889, burned in 1899.) This one of granite, brick and marble. Capitol-styled, classic Roman architecture, with a dome clock and belfry surmounted by a symbolic figure of justice. In 1964 became site of Harrison County Museum, in space allotment after new Courthouse was opened on Whetstone Square.
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1965.

The 1900 Harrison County courthouse dome
Photo courtesy Terry Jeanson, December 2007

	1908 postcard courtesy rootsweb.com/ %7Etxpstcrd/

	Postcard circa 1911 courtesy THC

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The Third Harrison County Courthouse

circa 1889
- Marshall, Texas

Destroyed by fire 1899

	Photo courtesy THC

The Second Harrison County Courthouse

circa 1848
- Marshall, Texas

Demolished in 1889

	Photo courtesy THC