Wilson County Courthouse
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| The courthouse was built in 1884 and
supervised by Alfred Giles. In 1872 a courthouse was constructed in Floresville, but
in May of 1883, Commissioners' Court proposed the erection of a new Wilson County
Courthouse to replace a three room frame courthouse which required extensive
repairs. The court ordered that “a larger more commodious” courthouse be
built on the public square in the town of Floresville and it appropriated $3,700 from the
courthouse and jail fund for that purpose. The court also ordered the sale of
Lots 3, 5
and 6 in block number 11, on which the old courthouse stood, and Lots 6, 7 and 8 in block
number 12, where the schoolhouse was located. The proceeds of the sale were to be
used for the construction of the new courthouse. A.G. Pickett, County judge, D.L.
Wiley, County Commissioner and W.C. Agee composed the building committee appointed to
supervise construction. The court required that the building be 50 feet wide; 60
feet long and 24 feet high from the foundation to the eaves. The plan provided for a
two-story lumber building on a rock foundation in which the lower story was divided into
offices and jury rooms and the upper floor contained a court room and a district
clerk’s office. I got most of these facts from the Wilson County Structure Report, (Wilson County Courthouse, Floresville, Texas, A Historic Structure Report, 1978-1979, by De Lara-Almond Architects, Inc., Copyright 1979, copyright, 1979, by De Lara-Almond Architects, Inc., San Antonio, Texas), kindly shown to me by the District Clerk. |