County Seat – Big Spring
Built – 1953
Style – modern
Architects – Puckett & French
Pictures taken: June 23, 2005
We stopped for the night in Big Spring. A nice West Texas town. We were on our way to Oregon, for the Sisters Quilt Event. Our first big trip with a travel trailer.
The courthouse was rather uninspiring – being a product of 50’s modernism. Everything looks institutional – your vision of a hospital or school. Howard County courthouse seems more like a hospital. No matter what you think or say about the 50’s, great architectural designing wasn’t one of the great achievements of that time period. The floor did have a nice marble map of the county laying in the middle of the concourse.