{"nrhp_refnum":"77001459","name":"Llano County Courthouse and Jail","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Public Sq., Oatman and Haynie Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Llano","county":"Llano County","state":"TX","lat":30.74974595900005,"lon":-98.67665270099997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1977-12-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A county courthouse on the public square in Llano, Texas, built 1892-1893, and a county jail a block north and east, built in 1895. Both are Romanesque Revival buildings and remain county property.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the two buildings are significant for architecture and for politics/government. They are fine examples of Romanesque Revival design, the courthouse in brick with granite trim and the jail in granite, and they have served county government for over seventy-five years. The courthouse has also been a center of community activities and celebrations.","narrative":"Llano's county government has operated from two Romanesque Revival buildings since the 1890s. The courthouse on the public square was finished in 1893 after fire destroyed the previous building in 1892. Designed by Larmour and Watson and built by J. A. and G. H. Wilson, it combines buff brick walls with tan granite trim, granite columns with marble capitals, and an unusual corner tower set at the northeast. A change of site plans during design explains the offset tower. The jail, completed in 1895 from plans by F. B. and W. S. Hull and built by a St. Louis jail manufacturer, is a cubical granite building with a gabled pavilion on each side, a ventilating tower, and quarry-faced ashlar walls. The sheriff's family lived on the ground floor, with cells above. Both buildings date from a late nineteenth-century mining boom in the county, and both still serve their original purposes.","period_of_significance":"1892-1895","architect_builder":"Courthouse: Larmour and Watson (A. O. Watson), built by J. A. and G. H. Wilson of Sulphur Springs; Jail: plans by F. B. and W. S. Hull, built by Pauly Jail Building and Manufacturing Company, St. Louis","architectural_style":"Romanesque Revival (courthouse); Richardsonian Romanesque (jail)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Both the courthouse and jail continue to function in their original roles; condition is checked as good.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:19.637232-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/58/9728/40972858/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/77001459.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/77001459/7f82e2540d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/77001459/7f82e2540d-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 4.0","author":"Larry D. Moore","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Llano_courthouse_2010.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:Llano_courthouse_2010.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"88002542","name":"Llano County Courthouse Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/texas/llano-county-courthouse-historic-district-88002542/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40972858","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llano_County_Courthouse_and_Jail","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6661655"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/llano-county/llano-county-courthouse-and-jail-77001459/"}