Victoria County Courthouse Restoration
The 1892 Victoria County Courthouse
Gary Dunnam, Executive Director
Designed by J. Riely Gordon, the 1892 Victoria County Courthouse is a three-story structure, built of blue Muldoon sandstone and trimmed with limestone. The ground floor of the restored structure features ten (10) offices for county and district officials. The second floor features the original, two-story courtroom, two offices, a jury room and a witness room. The third floor contains the balcony of the courtroom, two conference rooms, and two non-jury courtrooms. Each floor has a set of handicap accessible restrooms.
History of Victoria
History of Victoria, Texas
That favored bit of Texas known today as Victoria County, is the very place where the history of Texas began. Our first history is Spanish Colonial. It began in the early 1500’s. We get the first detailed accounts of the flora and fauna, as well as geographical features once the French explorer, René Robert Cavalier, Sieur de La Salle arrives in 1685 and establishes a colony near the southern tip of present day Victoria County.
Dolores Power Welder House
Dolores Power Welder House
507 North Victoria
This grand home stood at the corner of N. Victoria and W. Stayton Avenue for seventy-five years. John Welder (I) was brutally murdered in Refugio County in 1877, leaving a widow and ten children. The oldest son, John James Welder (II), became the titular head of the family, married Eliza Hughes in 1883 moved the center of the Welder family’s interests to Victoria County.
