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On July 10, 2018, Travis County entered a negotiation agreement with developers to design and build a new downtown court facility, and on January 15, 2019, the county approved funding for the project. Construction began with a groundbreaking ceremony on May 31, 2019, with the new facility scheduled
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In the early 2010s, as population growth in Travis County continued to strain the courthouse's capacity, the county made plans to replace the 1931 courthouse with a new, still larger facility. Officials selected a county-owned downtown lot near the site of the first county courthouse, and on August
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for the building of a third and larger county courthouse. Construction began with the laying of the cornerstone in 1930; on June 27, 1931, the courthouse was completed and had its grand opening, and the county's courts and offices moved in from the previous courthouse building. As the county
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issuance to fund a new courthouse complex. In the November 2015 general election, however, the bond measure was rejected by Travis County voters, and the county instead enacted a "preservation master plan" in January 2016 to provide for necessary repairs to the existing courthouse.
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wrote an opinion stating that county commissioners "have failed to meet their responsibilities in providing a safe and suitable jail for Travis County". On December 9, 1978, Travis County voters approved an $ 8.5 million bond package for a new jail.
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After the state established a temporary "School of Law of the Texas State University for Negroes," the district court found that the state had fulfilled its constitutional obligations to Sweatt; Sweatt appealed his suit to the
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that Sweatt should be admitted to the University of Texas. On October 21, 2005, Travis County renamed its courthouse the "Heman Marion Sweatt Travis County Courthouse" in honor of this notable trial in the history of the
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that had recently been left vacant by the completion of a new federal courthouse complex. At a press conference on December 29, 2016, officials from Travis County and the federal judiciary and local U.S. Representative
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running vertically between bays. The facade was originally symmetrical north and south, but large expansions to the north side (added during renovations in 1958 and 1962) now give the building a lopsided silhouette.
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court, thirteen Texas district courts, two district clerks, and two probate courts, though the probate courts are set to be relocated into the former federal courthouse building by 2020.
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Construction on the new jail began in 1981, and Travis County officially took ownership of the new jail in 1986 after costs had ballooned to more than $ 21 million. On October 21, 1988,
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depicting a judge releasing shackled prisoners to a celebrating crowd. The windows in the building's central mass are joined into five recessed vertical window bays, with decorative
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In December 1972, twelve inmates brought suit against the county, alleging that the conditions in the then 280-person jail on the top two floors of the courthouse constituted
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announced that ownership of the old federal courthouse had been transferred to Travis County. The county then budgeted $ 28 million to bring the structure up to current
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finishes and detailing. The structure was originally built to hold three courts and all county government offices, with the county
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The original main entry (now closed for security reasons) is in the east facade, where a staircase leads from street level up to
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Stephen Capelle ordered the old jail closed by December 1990, however, the jail wound up being retired early, on April 6, 1990.
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and other functions of county government. The courthouse was built between 1930 and 1931 in the then-contemporary
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in the Travis County Courthouse in June 1946 and again in May 1947, where Sweatt's case was argued by a young
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Coincidentally, the lawsuit that ultimately resulted in the closure of the jail was filed the same year as
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flourishes and geometric detailing. The building was designed by the firm of local architect
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prohibited racially integrated education. Sweatt sued the University with the support of the
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continued to grow, substantial additions to the facility were made in 1958 and 1962.
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After the defeat of the courthouse bond, the county began pursuing ownership of the
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on the top floor. From 1962 to 1964, this jail was expanded to additional floors.
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on the top two floors. As of 2017, it now houses two county civil courts, a
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The Travis County Courthouse is a six-story steel-and-concrete building
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doors within a projecting doorframe, with an elaborately carved
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In 1930 the county selected a site on the north side of
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When the courthouse opened in 1931 it did so with a
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Heman Marion Sweatt Travis County Courthouse

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Austin, Texas
Coordinates
30°16′23″N 97°44′42″W / 30.273°N 97.745°W / 30.273; -97.745
Heman Marion Sweatt
Travis County, Texas
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county courthouse
Travis County, Texas
downtown
Austin, Texas
county seat
trial courts
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Travis County
Republic Square
downtown Austin
Second Empire
Texas State Capitol
Wooldridge Park
Travis County Corrections Bureau
jail
cruel and unusual punishment
Jack Roberts
US Magistrate Judge
Ruiz v. Estelle
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