{"id":2254,"date":"2013-07-04T23:20:03","date_gmt":"2013-07-04T23:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=2254"},"modified":"2013-07-04T23:20:03","modified_gmt":"2013-07-04T23:20:03","slug":"courthouse-building-still-needs-a-tenant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=2254","title":{"rendered":"Courthouse building still needs a tenant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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My wife and I went to Canyon this morning to watch a parade and to sample some\u00a0so-called “food” sold at one of the many booths scattered around the Courthouse Square.<\/p>\n

We had a good time looking at the arts and crafts. The weather was gorgeous. It was a great day to watch a parade.<\/p>\n

Still, I couldn’t take my eyes off that exquisite courthouse structure in the middle of the square.<\/p>\n

After so much hassle, heartache and occasional hysteria over many years from historic preservationists, the courthouse exterior is all dolled up. The money came from a Texas Historical Commission grant, with the county kicking in a little bit to cover the rest of the cost.<\/p>\n

As pretty as the outside of the 1909-vintage building is, the inside is, well, a dilapidated mess.<\/p>\n

I’m still waiting for someone or some agency or some business to step up and take over the place. With all the effort that went into preserving the courthouse building exterior, I remain baffled as to why it remains vacant.<\/p>\n

Randall County’s government has vacated the place. It occupies the finance building across the street; it’s where the commissioners court meets, the county judge has his office, as does the human resources department. Its justice center is about a mile and a half away, at the old Wal-Mart site across the street from West Texas A&M University.<\/p>\n

Who will move in? That’s still anyone’s guess, last I heard.<\/p>\n

Still, the courthouse made for an elegant backdrop today for the Canyon Chamber of Commerce’s Independence Day celebration. I just wish there was a way to finish the job and put someone on the inside of a very old, but gorgeous once again, structure.<\/p>\n

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My wife and I went to Canyon this morning to watch a parade and to sample some\u00a0so-called “food” sold at one of the many booths scattered around the Courthouse Square. We had a good time looking at the arts and crafts. The weather was gorgeous. It was a great day to watch a parade. Still, … Continue reading Courthouse building still needs a tenant<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}