area:
80,000 SF

completed:
  August 2001

services provided:
Conditions Analysis
Room by Room Survey
Historical Development
Architectural Development
Rehabilitation Recommendations
Preservation Maintenance Plan
Construction Documents
Construction Administration




OLD NUECES COUNTY COURTHOUSE
Preservation Master Plan
Rehabilitation
Corpus Christi, Texas


Limbacher & Godfrey served as Historic Preservation Consultant and was co-author of the Historic Structures Report and Preservation Master Plan.  They also served as Historic Preservation Consultant for the subsequent construction documents phase, with a special emphasis on the restoration of the terra cotta banding and ornament.
 
 The Old Nueces County Courthouse was constructed in 1915.  The monumentally scaled, classical building was designed by San Antonio architect Harvey L. Page, who felt it was one of his finest works.  Although the building easily survived the devastating hurrican of 1918, by the early 1970's the exterior masonry skin was severely compromised and failing.  In 1974, the building was abandoned and has continued to deteriorate since.

Rehabilitation construction on the south wing was completed in 2006.