My wife, Mary Alice and I left Houston on Friday morning around 5:30am and headed west. Our first stop was San Antonio and the Bexar County courthouse. This courthouse is a Romanesque Revival designed by J Riley Gordon and built in 1895.
Our next stop was Jourdanton, Texas and the Atascosa County courthouse. This is one of three in Texas designed in the "Mission" style. We then drove to Castroville and I photographed the old courthouse there which is now the city hall. We then went further west to Hondo and the Medina County courthouse. After Hondo we drove north to Bandera and had lunch in Busbee's Barbecue.
We loved the signs in the restaurant, check them out. After photographing the Bandera County courthouse we drove to Boerne, Texas and the Kendall County courthouse. I found the old 1909 courthouse open and got a photo of the old courtroom.
We left Boerne and continued east on SH 46 to New Braunfels. We didn't even stop because the courthouse was covered with scaffolding. It is being restored. We continued on to Seguin and the Guadalupe County courthouse. It is a "Moderne" Art Deco style built in the 1930s.
We headed back to Houston stopping in Mentz, Texas where I found my ancestor's grave stones in the church graveyard. Peter Jacob Wendel and Barbera Braden immigrated to Texas in 1845 and were married in Mentz and had 12 children. They are my great, great grandparents. We got home in Houston at 8:00pm after traveling 570 miles.
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