Built in 1937 with Public Works Administration funds, this is the sixth building to serve as the Van Zandt County Courthouse. According to local lore, the commissioners court decreed that a modern courthouse should be erected in order to provide jobs for men of the county during the Depression era. The stepped massed edifice with cast stone veneer walls features art deco and art moderne details and is noteworthy for its vertical emphasis and its association with the architectural form of Voelcker and Dixon. The Wichita Falls and Houston-based firm designed several West Texas courthouses in this style.

Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1999

Historians Donald and Annette Plemmons

Marker is on East Dallas Street (State Highway 64) east of South Buffalo Street (State Route 198), on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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