El Paso County Courthouses and

Other Historic Photographs




El Paso County Courthouse 1886-1917





El Paso City Hall 1899-1959





Early photograph with both the County

Courthouse and City Hall






El Paso Federal Courthouse 1890-1937





Early Photograph of the El Paso Federal

Building, which held the Customs house, Post

Office and Federal Courthouse.






El Paso County Courthouse 1917-1990






El Paso Federal Courthouse 1936-present





Early photograph of San Jacinto Plaza

(with a view of the federal building in the

background)







Alligator Pond at the old San Jacinto Plaza.


Live alligators were kept at the plaza from 1883

to 1965, again for two years in 1972.







Early photograph of San Antonio Street.