Fayette County Courthouse Square Historic District

The Fayette County Courthouse Square Historic District in La Grange, Texas is a historic district roughly bounded by Main, Lafayette, Franklin, Colorado, Jefferson, Washington, and Crockett Streets. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 16, 2001. Two notable buildings in the district are the Fayette County Courthouse and Jail. Forty–seven buildings, three structures and four objects were identified as contributing to the historic nature of the district.[2]

Fayette County Courthouse Square Historic District
Downtown La Grange in 2007
Fayette Co. Courthouse Square Historic Dist.
Fayette County Courthouse Square Historic District in La Grange, Texas
Fayette Co. Courthouse Square Historic Dist.
Fayette Co. Courthouse Square Historic Dist. (the United States)
LocationLa Grange, Texas
Coordinates29°54′17″N 96°52′39″W
Area24 acres (9.7 ha)
Built1856–1947
Architectural styleRomanesque, Early Commercial, late 19th and early 20th century American movements
NRHP reference No.00001664
Added to NRHP16 January 2001[1]

Contributing properties

A partial list of contributing properties:

  • Fayette Couty Courthouse (1891)
  • Fayette County Jail (1881)
  • Masonic Lodge No.34 A.F. & A.M. (1860)
  • Grassmeyer Building (1856–1859)
  • Moore Grocery / Reichert Furniture Store (1880)
  • Post Office and Bank Building (1884)
  • Ehler's Cotton Company (1927)
  • Hermes Building (1906–7)
  • U.S. Post Office (1936–7)
  • Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Depot (1897)

See also
Pictures of the Fayette County Courthouse Square Historic District
  • Downtown La Grange looking northwest up N. Washington St. (postcard from c. 1908)
  • 1906–7 Hermes Bldg. on N. Washington St. (left) has a modern Rexall sign for the Hermes Drug Store (2007)
  • The scalloped parapet of the 1906–7 Hermes Building (left) displays the family name (2017)
  • 1860 Masonic Lodge No.34 A.F. & A.M. facade southeast elevation (2016a)
  • 1891 Courthouse facade shown on postcard from c. 1910
  • Courthouse facade from northeast (2006)
  • Courthouse facade, east elevation (2017)
  • Courthouse facade (2019)
  • 1891 Fayette County Courthouse north elevation (2007)
  • 1891 Courthouse rear, west elevation (2015)
  • Courthouse rear from northwest (2013)
  • Courthouse atrium (2015)
  • 1936–7 U.S. Post Office facade looking northeast (2014)
  • 1936–7 U.S. Post Office cornerstone (2014)
  • The Texas Quilt Museum downtown La Grange (2014)
  • The 1856–9 Grassmeyer Building one of the oldest extant (2016b)
  • 1856–9 Grassmeyer Building facade, northeast elevation (2016b)
  • Grassmeyer Building historic marker (2016b)
  • 1881 Jail facade, southwest elevation (2013)
Photography: Larry D. Moore (2006); tap houston (2007); LeannMcClain (2013); Larry D. Moore (2014); Jim Evans (2015); QuesterMark (2016a); Darrylpearson (2016b); Renelibrary (2017); Skibjm08 (2019).

References
  1. "National Register Information System – Fayette County Courthouse Square Historic District (#00001664)". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. Knight, Lila (16 Jan 2001). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Fayette County Courthouse Square Historic District" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved 3 Feb 2020.

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