Ward County Courthouse

Monahans, Texas

Completed - 1940
Architect - Townes & Funk

COUNTY ORGANIZED: 1892

COUNTY NAMED FOR: Thomas W. Ward, second commissioner of the General Land Office of Texas.

COUNTY SEATS: Two - Barstow and Monahans

COUNTY SEAT NAMED FOR: Thomas John (Pat) Monahan, who dug the first water well between the Pecos River and Big Spring at Monahans in 1881 and selected the site for a water tank, around which a ranch supply point later developed. Town was originally called Monahan's Well.

COURTHOUSES: Two - 1893 and 1940

STANDING: One - 1940 Moderne courthouse built of sandstone.

LINKS: Ward County