Accepted designs for Texas courthouses, 1894: San Antonio (Bexar County) – Antique Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Accepted designs for Texas courthouses, 1894: San Antonio (Bexar County) comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Accepted designs for Texas courthouses, 1894: San Antonio (Bexar County)
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Published in the *American Architect and Building News* in 1894, this lithograph presents designs by the architect James Reilly Gordon for a courthouse in San Antonio, the seat of Bexar County. The title describes the drawing as an accepted design, so it records the plan chosen for the building rather than a finished structure. In the 1890s, Texas counties were putting up courthouses as the most prominent public buildings in their towns, and trade journals like this one carried such plans to a national professional audience. The print offers a useful view of how a regional commission was presented to architects and builders of the day.
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
|---|---|
| Notes | 1894 |
| Subjects | Lithograph in Amer. Architect and Building News, 1894 - designs by James Reilly Gordon, Arch't. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: PI--Works; Architecture--Plans; Tex.; Courthouses; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,150 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-120251 |
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