Lee County Courthouse, 200 South Main Street, Giddings, Lee County, TX

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Significance: Completed in 1899, the Lee County Courthouse was one of the last Texas Courthouses designed by San Antonio architect James Riley Gordon. A handsome example of Romanesque Revival, the design of the courthouse reflects a popular style of its time within Gordon's broader system of designing for climate control.

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N471

Survey number: HABS TX-3446

Building/structure dates: 1899 Initial Construction

National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 75001998

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giddings tex lee courthouse lee county courthouse south main street giddings lee county texas james reily gordon matthew haberling heritage society of austin phillip creer scholarship historic american buildings survey jessica juarez dan leary lawson newman jane sunderland school of architecture university of texas at austin robert ward laurie zapalac photo architecture building plans architectural diagrams library of congress national register of historic places

1933 - 1970

Historic American Buildings Survey, creator

Gordon, James Reily

Zapalac, Laurie

Leary, Dan, faculty sponsor

University of Texas at Austin, School of Architecture, sponsor

Heritage Society of Austin: Phillip Creer Scholarship, sponsor

Haberling, Matthew, delineator

Juarez, Jessica, delineator

Newman, Lawson, delineator

Sunderland, Jane, delineator

Ward, Robert, delineator

Giddings (Tex.) , 30.18141, -96.93711

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