The Lavaca County Courthouse, in Hallettsville, Texas, is a courthouse which was built in 1897. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.

It is the fifth structure serving as county seat for Lavaca County, originally "La Baca" County.

Lavaca County Courthouse

It was designed by architect Eugene T. Heiner.

Lavaca County Courthouse

It is a Richardsonian Romanesque-style courthouse, "strongly influenced" by H.H. Richardson's design of the Allegheny County Courthouse in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is a raised three-story limestone building, cruciform in plan, with a hipped roof and pyramidal roofs and dormers.

Lavaca County Courthouse

It is a Texas State Antiquities Landmark.

See also

National Register of Historic Places listings in Lavaca County, Texas

List of county courthouses in Texas

References

External links

County courthouses in Texas

National Register of Historic Places in Lavaca County, Texas

Romanesque Revival architecture in Texas

Government buildings completed in 1897