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{{short description|Historic district in Texas, United States}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2023}}
{{Infobox NRHP
| name = Wharton County Courthouse Historic Commercial District
| nrhp_type = hd
| image = Wharton county courthouse 2013.jpg
| caption = Wharton County Courthouse in 2013
| location = Roughly bounded by the alley N of Milam St., Rusk St., Elm St. and Richmond St., [[Wharton, Texas]]
| coordinates = {{coord|29|18|38|N|96|6|3|W|name=Wharton County Courthouse Historic Commercial District|region:US-TX_type:landmark|display=inline,title}}
| locmapin = Texas#USA
| map_label = Wharton County Courthouse Historic Commercial District
| locmap_relief = yes
| architect = [[Jules Leffland]], [[Wyatt C. Hedrick]]
| architecture = [[Moderne architecture|Moderne]], [[Italianate architecture|Italianate]], [[Romanesque Revival architecture|Romanesque]]
| added = November 5, 1991
| area = {{convert|21|acre}}
| refnum = 91001624<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref>
}}
The '''Wharton County Courthouse Historic Commercial District''' is a {{convert|21|acre|adj=on}} [[historic district (United States)|historic district]] in [[Wharton, Texas]] that was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1991.  It includes works by architects [[Jules Leffland]] and [[Wyatt C. Hedrick]] and others.  The NRHP listing included 46 [[contributing buildings]] and two [[contributing objects]], as well as 31 non-contributing buildings and two non-contributing objects, on the blocks fronting on the courthouse square and on nearby blocks (see map on page 7 of NRHP document).<ref name=nris/><ref name=nrhpdoc>{{cite web|url= |title=National Register of Historic Places Registration: Wharton County Courthouse |publisher=National Archives |author=Daniel Hardy |date=August 1991 }} (accessible by searching within [https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40972550 National Archives Catalog])</ref>
The Wharton County Courthouse itself is a three-story [[Art Deco architecture|Art Deco]] building with a one-story addition.  The courthouse square was lined with [[pecan]] trees as of 1991 and has an octagonal [[gazebo]] and three memorials.<ref name=nrhpdoc/>
Selected buildings in the district are:
*W. A. Harrison Building (1913), 200 W. Milam, built for William Alexander Harrison of prominent Harrison family
*Burger-Robertson Block (1909-1919), 115-137 S. Fulton Street, consisting of six commercial buildings, three of which were designed by Victoria architect [[Jules Leffland]].
==See also==
{{Portal|NRHP|Texas}}
*[[National Register of Historic Places listings in Wharton County, Texas]]
==References==
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==External links==
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{{National Register of Historic Places in Texas}}
{{Wharton County, Texas}}
[[Category:Italianate architecture in Texas]]
[[Category:Romanesque Revival architecture in Texas]]
[[Category:Streamline Moderne architecture in the United States]]
[[Category:Wharton County, Texas]]
[[Category:Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Texas]]
[[Category:National Register of Historic Places in Wharton County, Texas]]
[[Category:Courthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Texas]]
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