Anderson County Courthouse Project

Just running a little test post to see if my pics are showing up. Here's a few of the Anderson County Courthouse in Palestine, TX. I'm doing a project in Texas History over the courthouse's history. It's truly a beautiful work of art. It has mirrored spiral staircases that are made of ornate iron and marble, all from the area. There is a mural on the basement floor that you can see by looking over the stairwell. There is also a stained glass dome at the top of the stairwell.

The picture to the right is the front of the courthouse. There are four entrances, one to end side of the building. This helps ensure equal property value all around the courthouse square. This happens to be the side that the Historical Marker was on. It was built in 1914.

The pics above are of the spiraled staircases, they make a circle within the center of the courthouse.






Here is the mural. The pic is kinda dark, I guess I should have lightened it up a tad before I uploaded it.












The stained glass dome in the ceiling.














Now to the good stuff, BEN!!!

Here he's on the courthouse steps, of the 20 pics I took of him this is the only one where he was both smiling and looking at me!










"I BORED!"

This was Ben after we had been around, down, up, through, and then around the courthouse again in the Durango. Needless to say, he was ready to go!