Shelby County Courthouse - Nov. 25, 2017
Visit the 1885 Shelby County Courthouse in Center, Texas
Rotate left past the broken clock and veterans memorial
Shelby County Memorial to past, present, and future Veterans
Restored, yet still rustic, front door to the courthouse
Built to resemble the romanesque revival of an Irish Castle
Head clockwise from the north side to the north east side
View the store fronts along Shelbyville Street toward the intersection at San Augustine Street
View the county annex in the northeast corner of the courthouse square
Two story building built in 1945
Noe home of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas
View of the courthouse from the rising sun well lit east side
Another angle of the east side with morning sunlight upon it
East side courthouse doorway angles outward in an odd manner
Looking northeast down San Augustine Street toward the intersection with Shelbyville Street
Another annex building on the southeast side of the courthouse square
Also made before air conditioning and the date built plaque inside
Woodman of the World marker stands beyond the annex building
CSA Muster for Shelby County residents lost in war 100 years earlier
South side view of the Shelby County Courthouse
South side courthouse doorway with doors left & right to offices
The 1885 courthouse was refurbished in 1999
County named for Isaac Shelby, Continental Army Revolutionary War
Butterfly Garden in honor of Margaret Hathorn
Southside monument in memory of all veterans
View north of Nacogdoches Street toward the intersection of Shelbyville Street
West side view of the 1885 Shelby County Courthouse in the sunrise shadow
J.J.E. Gibson made the bricks and built the 1885 courthouse
More northwest view of the shadowed courthouse with sunrising in the east
Links all along the courthouse square may have been used to tie horses
The historic 1884 Shelby County Jail was also built by Gibson
View of the Shelby County Jail from Shelbyville Street
The Chamber of Commerce is headquartered in the old jail now
It's really all about the love . . . of Texas County Courthouses!