Above is an artist's rendering of the Old Cameron County Courthouse on East Madison Street, completed in 1912.
The three story building, the work of San Antonio architect Atlee Bernard Ayres, built in the Classic Revival style, now holds county offices.
When illuminated like a cathedral, it is the most beautiful courthouse in Texas as Ayres utilized the designs of Louis Sullivan, the father of skyscrapers and modernism and a mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright.
The delicate detailing, from an era when buildings were works of art, incorporates "1912" and "Cameron County Courthouse" into a terra cotta shield above the entrance.
Today, the facility is known as the "Oscar Dancy Building," a former County Judge who served 50 years and never owned a car and described his arrival in Cameron County January 9, 1909 as "coming to the foot of the rainbow."
Some say that the old courthouse and the old county judge remind us that buildings and people are not made like "like they used to."
The Old Cameron County Courthouse, an architectural marvel, an iconic piece of Brownsville history!!
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