Chambers County Courthouse
Anahuac, Texas
 
 
     
 
 
 Completed - 1936
Architect - Corneil G. Curtis
Photos: Robert Deering 11/14/2013
 
 

1911 Courthouse in Anahuac
Architet - F. W. Steinman

Photo: Wallisville Herigate Park
 

1886 Courthouse in Wallisville
Photo: Wallisville Heritage Park

COUNTY ORGANIZED: 1858

COUNTY NAMED FOR:  The county is named for Thomas Jefferson Chambers, the only superior judge of Texas before the revolution.

COUNTY SEATS: Two - Wallisville and Anahuac.

COUNTY SEAT NAMED FOR:  Gen. Manuel de Mier y Terán, commanding officer of the Mexican states of Coahuila and Texas, officially named the town Anahuac in January 1831, after the ancient capital of the Aztecs.

COURTHOUSES: Four - Wallisville in 1858 and 1886; Anahuac in 1911, and 1936

STANDING: One - 1936 Modern courthouse constructed with the help of WPA funds.


 
 
   
   


1936 Courthouse in Anahuac
Texas DoT Photo 1939

1936 Courthouse
Photo: Robert Deering 1974

ADDRESS: 404 Chambers Ave., Anahuac, Texas