Facts

📍 Region: Panhandle / City: Crowell

🗓️ Year Built: 1910 (Remodeled 1942 – portico columns and clock tower removed)

🧑‍🎨 Architect: Patrick Henry (P.H.) Withers

🏛️ Architectural Style: Classical Revival

💎 Unique Details: Unlike many Texas courthouses built of limestone or granite, the Foard County Courthouse is constructed of buff-colored brick.

Why See It?

Rural Significance: Located in one of Texas’s least populated counties, the courthouse is a testament to early 20th-century civic pride in even the smallest communities. Today, the building stands as a rare example of a stripped-down Classical Revival courthouse, reflecting wartime resource limitations and mid-century shifts in architectural values.

Nearby Highlights

Copper Breaks State Park – Features rugged canyons, scenic trails, and stargazing opportunities as one of Texas’s designated features rugged canyons, scenic trails, and stargazing opportunities.

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