Leon County

County Seat: Year Organized: 2000 Population: Square Miles:
Giddings 1847 15,657 629

Three Courthouse:  1847, 1858 & 1886

Lee County Courthouse

            Designed by J. R. Gordon along lines similar to New York State Capitol and several buildings at Harvard University.  Classified as Richardsonian Romanesque style, after the famous Louisiana – born architect Henry H. Richardson.

            Built by Sonnefield, Emmins and Abright of San Antonio, 1899.  Replaced first courthouse, which burned 1897.  Located on crest of divide separating the Colorado and Brazos river basins.

Recorded Texas Historic Landmark—1968

 

 

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