{"nrhp_refnum":"71000944","name":"Lampasas County Courthouse","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Bounded by S. Live Oak, E. 4th, S. Pecan, and E. 3rd Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lampasas","county":"Lampasas County","state":"TX","lat":31.173779366000076,"lon":-98.17666551799994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1971-06-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A Second Empire style limestone county courthouse in Lampasas, Lampasas County, Texas, on a block bounded by South Live Oak, East 4th, South Pecan and East 3rd streets. Designed by W. C. Dodson, it was built from 1882 and completed in 1884.","why_significant":"The courthouse is significant as an example of Second Empire architecture by W. C. Dodson, an architect who specialized in county courthouses. Its massing and details closely relate to the Parker, Hill and Hood county courthouses of the 1880s and 1890s. Its exterior has remained substantially unchanged.","narrative":"Lampasas County Courthouse is a Second Empire style building of native limestone in the center of Lampasas, Texas. Designed by architect and contractor W. C. Dodson, it was begun in 1882 and completed in 1884, replacing a frame courthouse that burned in 1871. For years afterward county officials worked from scattered offices around town. The new building has vermiculated ashlar walls, smooth-faced quoins and trim, a Mansard roof covered in diamond-patterned tin shingles, and a clock tower with a convex Mansard top. Entrance pavilions on two sides feature round-arched doorways with unusual pilasters. Dodson is known to have designed six courthouses, and four of them are remarkably similar; the Lampasas building closely resembles those of Parker, Hill and Hood counties. The exterior has changed little, though the interior has been remodelled and air conditioned. It remains county property and was designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1965.","period_of_significance":"1883","architect_builder":"W. C. Dodson, architect and contractor","architectural_style":"Second Empire","criteria":[],"status_note":"Exterior substantially unchanged; interior remodelled and air conditioned. Listed in fair condition, in government use, and a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark since 1965.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:18.677397-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/11/9728/40972811/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/71000944.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/71000944/364aae1417-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/71000944/364aae1417-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 4.0","author":"Larry D. Moore","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lampasas_county_courthouse.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Larry D. Moore</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lampasas_county_courthouse.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40972811","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107320095"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/lampasas-county/lampasas-county-courthouse-71000944/"}