Great shots of the Tarrant County Courthouse, John. I heard recently on PBS, they were talking about all the courthouse restorations going on in Texas. They mentioned the Tarrant County one and said the rotunda is 110 feet high. Have you ever heard of that height before, John? I'd like to add that as a fact to its page at Emporis, but I need a solid source for the fact.
Texas is lucky in that we have more counties than any other state with 254 of them. Texas has atleast one county that starts with every letter in the alphabet except for Q and X. Many of our courthouses were built between 1880 and 1910.
This website below is an excellent starting point for learning more about Texas courthouses. It features pages with pictures of the courthouses for all 254 counties plus the ones that aren't in use anymore. Fantastic website, I just wish they'd add a little bit more content for each page.
http://www.texascourthouses.com/
This is the art-deco Travis County Courthouse in Austin, built in 1930. It replaced an older 1876 courthouse elsewhere in downtown.
The one above replaced this courthouse which was built in 1876 across the street from the Capitol. It was torn down in 1964 for a parking lot of all things. Terrible loss, this was a beautiful building and unique in that the tower was placed at the northwest corner of the building instead of the center.