Montgomery County Courthouses

Montgomery County, the third county created by the Republic of Texas, was established on December 14, 1837, from part of the Washington municipality in response to a petition by settlers on the east side of the Brazos River. Its original boundaries included present-day Grimes, Walker, and San Jacinto counties and part of Madison and Waller Counties. The town of Montgomery was the first county seat, and three courthouses there—two small log cabins and a two-story wood building—served county government until 1889, when an election moved the county seat to Conroe. Isaac Conroe’s home then served as a temporary courthouse until the first courthouse on this site was built in 1891 using red bricks manufactured in Conroe, with the jail built across the street. After many repairs and changes, the exterior was plastered in 1909. In 1934, the county commissioners court voted to build a new, larger courthouse with a jail on the fourth and fifth floors, and the present art deco-style courthouse was completed in 1936 during the economic prosperity of the Conroe oil boom. North and south wings were added in 1966 as Conroe and Montgomery County grew, and the county’s courthouses have stood at the center of political, civic, and business activity since 1838.

Conroe, Texas · United States