{"nrhp_refnum":"70000762","name":"Tarrant County Courthouse","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Bounded by Houston, Belknap, Weatherford, and Commerce Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fort Worth","county":"Tarrant County","state":"TX","lat":32.75732850900005,"lon":-97.33299481499995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1970-10-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A four-story red Texas granite county courthouse in Fort Worth, Texas, occupying a block bounded by Houston, Belknap, Weatherford and Commerce Streets. It was built between 1893 and 1895 to designs by Kansas City architects Gunn and Curtis.","why_significant":"The building is cited for its architecture: a domed Renaissance Revival design that closely resembles the Texas State Capitol, with a more ornate main pavilion. It also reflects Fort Worth's growing wealth in the 1880s and 1890s and replaced earlier courthouses from 1866 and 1876-77.","narrative":"Tarrant County's courthouse in Fort Worth is a four-story building of red Texas granite, completed in 1895 on a block bounded by Houston, Belknap, Weatherford and Commerce Streets. Kansas City architects Gunn and Curtis designed it in a Renaissance Revival style, and Probst of Chicago held the construction contract. A central clock tower with a domed lantern rises above the building, and the sides and rear closely resemble the Texas State Capitol. The main front pavilion is more ornate, with paired columns, pediments and a balustraded portico. It replaced courthouses built in 1866 and 1876-77, the first lost to fire and the second razed in 1894. The Commissioners Court approved $500,000 in 1893, and the final cost was $408,840. Voters were so troubled by the size and expense that they removed every commissioner at the next election. The building still serves county government and stands at the head of Main Street, ending the axis of downtown Fort Worth.","period_of_significance":"1895","architect_builder":"Gunn and Curtis, architects (Kansas City); Probst of Chicago, construction contractor","architectural_style":"Renaissance Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed in excellent condition, unaltered and on its original site; still used as the county courthouse, with a Civil Courts Building added nearby.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:19.017927-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/78/9734/40973478/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/70000762_A.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/70000762/4a64827525-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/70000762/4a64827525-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Renelibrary","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TarrantCountyCourthouse3_(1_of_1).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Renelibrary</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TarrantCountyCourthouse3_(1_of_1).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40973478","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarrant_County_Courthouse","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q570870"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/tarrant-county/tarrant-county-courthouse-70000762/"}