Jeff Davis County Courthouse (Texas)
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Jeff Davis County Courthouse
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Jeff Davis County Courthouse
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 Jeff Davis County Courthouse
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| Location | 100 Court Ave., Fort Davis, Texas |
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| Coordinates | 30°35′18″N 103°53′41″W / 30.58833°N 103.89472°WCoordinates: 30°35′18″N 103°53′41″W / 30.58833°N 103.89472°W |
| Area | 1.5 acres (0.61 ha) |
| Built | 1910-1911 |
| Built by | Falls City Construction Co., Louisville, Kentucky |
| Architect | L.L. Thurman & Co., Dallas, Texas |
| Architectural style | Classic Revival / Beaux-Arts |
| Website | www |
| NRHP Reference # | 02000728 |
| TSAL # | 8200002370 |
| RTHL # | 12368 |
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| Added to NRHP | July 11, 2002 |
| Designated TSAL | May 15, 2003 |
| Designated RTHL | 2000 |
The Jeff Davis County Courthouse is located in the town of Fort Davis, the seat of Jeff Davis County in the U.S. state of Texas. The courthouse was constructed between 1910-1911 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. The Texas Historical Commission (THC) has also designated the building as a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark since 2000 and, along with the surrounding courthouse square, as a State Antiquities Landmark since 2003. The surrounding county and county seat, along with the nearby historic frontier fort at Fort Davis National Historic Site, are named after Jefferson Davis, who served as U.S. war secretary at the time of the establishment of the fort and the town, and who would later become president of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War.
The courthouse is located in the town's traditionally commercial district and holds the distinction of having the highest elevation of any of the state's courthouses due to Fort Davis' altitude in the state's western Davis Mountains. The building was constructed in a Classic Revival style with recessed columned porticoes on two sides with a Beaux-Arts clock tower atop. The ground floor primarily hosts county offices while the second floor is dominated by the district courtroom.
A previous facility located on the same square from 1880 to 1911 served as the original courthouse for both Jeff Davis County and also for Presidio County from which Jeff Davis County was partitioned and of which Fort Davis also formerly served as the county seat. The older courthouse was an adobe facility that required constant maintenance and never held sufficient space to serve the needs of either county government.
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