- City:
- Cooper, TX
- Site Type:
- Courthouses (State & Local), Civic Facilities
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Started:
- 1938
- Completed:
- 1940
- Designer:
- Hoke Smith
- Contractor:
- Works Progress Administration
- Quality of Information:
- Minimal
- Marked:
- Yes
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
Starting in 1938, the Work Projects Administration (WPA) demolished the 1900 Delta County Courthouse in Cooper and built a new $110,450 four-story courthouse that was finished in 1940. The architect of record was Hoke Smith (1896-1943).
Source notes
Vista K. McCroskey, "DELTA COUNTY," Handbook of Texas Online (https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hcd05), accessed June 20, 2015. Uploaded on June 12, 2010. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
Kelsey, Mavis P. Sr and Donald H. Dyal (2000). "The Courthouses of Texas" (Second ed.). College Station: Texas A&M University Press. p. 90.
Site originally submitted by Larry Moore on July 9, 2015.
Site Details
| Total Cost |
|---|
| $110,450.00 |
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Susan Allen Kline
County offices began moving into the building in November 1941 although the building was not finished (see Paris [TX] News, November 25, 1941). The formal opening of the district courtroom was held on January 14, 1942 and the building was still not completed (see Paris News, January 15, 1942). The building was dedicated by Governor Stevens on April 2, 1942 (see Paris News, April 3, 1942).