Reviews of Denton County Courthouse-on-the Square Museum (Museum)

Vi G

Awesome...so informative.

Susy Blasing

Beautiful building and wonderful information!

Sosena Williams

Beautiful building

Tyler Denison

Fun and interesting little museum. It's always neat to learn a towns history.

Jerry Velasco

A lot of quaint and cool shops.

Geniya Talsky

Currently under construction. Really looking forward to seeing what it will look like when completed. Really wish they had more parking! Especially on the west side of the building.

Grace Speese

Beautiful area to explore! My friends and I who are local decided to ride the Dart train up for a day trip - enjoyed the coffee shop, the used book store, lunch, and the candy shop. Great place to spend a few hours and quality time with friends!

muslim aldi

If you love historically downtown visit here.

Christopher Allen

If you're interested in local history, you'll enjoy the old courthouse on the square. The lawn is where the real fun takes place though. Music, movies, group gatherings, yoga, and many other events take place on the lawn.

Lara Tomlin

Good place for a picnic on a nice day.

Michael Stack

Great museum and historic landmark, place that shows history of Denton, and how it got its name. Very beautiful area around it, and awesome restaurants to eat at around the square. If you are passing through on a trip, or either live here and haven't been here, visit the Denton square, it's a place never to forget. Lots of variety in people's choice of clothing and variety of different restaurants and pub's to dine at.

Elizabeth Henke

My wife and I got married on the steps here during Christmas time. It was beautiful

Tommie Blackburn

Music on Saturday morning nice and shady

Kerry Smith

The BEST!

Vietta Yvonne cabreraCooper

Quick in and out. No lines. Plenty of people waiting to help.

Kutter Callis

A great area to walk around if it's a nice evening. Aside from the fact that some locals keep vandalizing the property due to certain history aspects, it's a great area to take your friends or family to visit.

JR Reza

This is one of the best places to come out too in the afternoons or throughout the day and just hang out, you can do Pokemon if you do that or just walk to different restaurants different bars the selection is awesome the People Are Awesome come experience it for yourself!

Christopher Carver

The court house is open to the public, and has a museum on the first floor. It's a good place to see the old architecture on the inside.

J Bush

Love this place so many goodies an good people.

Val Hicks

Small, but very interesting. The older gentleman at the information desk was very helpful and informative

Adeleye Adaralegbe

Nice place to go if you want to see people around. Denton is a quiet town, if you wanna see and meet people, then it is the right place

Kat Bos

Love hanging at the square, has been a place of music, laughter, families, and couples for over 50 years of my life. I include a photo of The Confederate Soldier, because if we erase our past or hide it away (in a museum) we are doomed to repeat our past. "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santayana (1863-1952)

Steve Courtney Cohen

Really cool window into the history of North Texas. A few fun activities for the kids and it's free, free free free free free free.

Abhay Singh

A historic building and attraction point all year round in Denton TX

Thomas Checketts

Great place to explore and enjoy the architecture. Much of the building is still original.

Kenneth Cruce

Great history

Charlotte Wilson

Really a nice place to go see! Hang out on the square!

Lucy Huffstetter

Nice environment

Benjamin Jones

Beautiful building. This is a must see on your list of Texas courthouses.

Tev Linsey

A gorgeous old building. Going into the basement feels like stepping into a medieval dungeon

Lina Hatcher

A Confederate memorial was in place here. I didnt go into the court house. Kind of sad but it is the history of the land. I did not notice balance of the history but in the welcome center across the street there was a black history account. Not a monument but something is better than nothing.

Mechelle Dhela

Secretaries too serious don't like people or their jobs

Kelly

This is part of our County's long history preserved. It sits in the center of town and is well manicured and cared for. There's a museum open inside daily l believe. This courthouse is the center of our towns square and is surrounded on all 4 sides by quaint & unique locally owned restraunts, coffee shops, bars, and a back in time candy store w/ a cool comic store. During spring and summer there's car shows, rallies, movies on the courthouse lawn, weddings, & local dog festivities taking place there. It's a great place to picnic or play pokemon. Free to public.

Sherry Longoria

Beautiful ❤

Amber White

This is a true hidden gem!!!

karthikeyudu phanitina

Night life around this Square gets very Bright and interesting during weekends, which is not expected for a college town .Especially during any festivals it's lit with Bright lights, Loud music.There are lot of Ice cream shops, Restaurants, Bars around this Building. Must visit During Halloween if your'e in Denton.

Lauren Williams

Thoroughly enjoyed browsing the museum, and the magnificent watercolors by Dorothy Bertine that currently adorn the walls.

Jamie Young

The hub of Denton. A must see for all visitors, and my personal favorite space. We spend so much time here, and it never gets old. So much history.

Les Lester

Fantastic museum if you're interested in in local history.

Trey Lanzer

Great museum and historic landmark. Great place to also spend your evenings.

Ray Josey

Love old courthouses .

Steve Daily

Lots of interesting information. Cool place to duck in on a hot afternoon

electra j

Good time very information very friendly informative host gave us the rundown on history of Denton County a lot of exhibition of different types of barbed wire from the 1800 interesting Courthouse interesting people interesting location worth the day to see it

D.J. Diepen

Museum with interesting artifacts from the early days of Denton.

Adele Haymes

Great history

David MacDonald

Great place. Part of the exhibit has moved, temporarily, a few blocks west.

Michelle Brown

This place is a historic gem!

Joy Kauf

What an amazing building. It is beautiful on the square.

Angel Falcon

The place looks great with small museum inside, very well maintained

Renee Brill

Very fast and professional

David Switzer

Interesting local museum

Alex Cardenas

Interesting museum but a bit small.

abhishek ahlawat

Good customer service. Don’t have to wait in line for vehicle registrations

RonieSue Ullrich

Nice since the improvements

Shay Jackson

A very neat building but we did mot go inside this time.

Jake Johnson

I didn’t ask to be brought to this place but the security people took good care of keeping us safe and my judge and his staff were fair and reasonable and looked out for my children’s best interest in the end my kids were well taken care of and that’s the important part

Victor Ferretiz

Nice place.. everybody walking around this place very relax.

MBM

Beautiful architecture. Nice to go there and marvel at how amazing it is. It is hard to imagine how something that beautiful and big could be made so long ago.

Richard Flusche

A beautiful building, with an unbelievable collection of Native American artifacts, a large gun collection, and my favorite, a piece of the Berlin Wall.

Amanda Garcia

Beautiful campus, great place to play pokemon go or listen to music.

Albert Jay

Denton is the most racist town I’ve ever been to, don’t get pulled over for being blk or mexican all I have to say

Liz Whitaker

I pretty much lived on the courthouse grounds there in Denton for almost a month while passing through on my travels. I met great people. I was surrounded by live music, yoga groups, and very interesting scenery. From the elderly regulars that arrived each morning at dawn for coffee at the nearby cafes, to the artsy college students who visited the clubs and bars spotting the square during the late night hours the place never had a dull moment. My fellow street wanderers, and even the authorities that patrolled the courthouse grounds , each and every one there as a matter of fact, were nothing but kind and generous and made my short lived stay an amazing one. I can't wait to return. I love you Denton!

Lillian Spibbles

It's such a gorgeous place to be. I like sitting on the steps and the benches. It's nice to just people watch.

Daniel Burgess

Commissioners Court still holds its meetings here. Open to the public every Thursday morning at 9. Watch county government business in action. Great museum with Civil War artifacts. And the building itself is quite an artifact. Next time you're on the Square, go inside.

Stephanie B

You can learn what you'd expect to learn. Could have been friendlier, though.

Larry Mcclendon

never been there except on the lawn, they had a Bernie Commie Fart Convention, no one there. That same wore out looking woman you see on tv trying to tell me about socialism. I said your exactly what our forefather fought and died against, please get out of my face.....

Chloe Ferris

Has a wonderful museum inside about the history of Denton, as well as its colleges. Sometimes they open up the top floor, so you are able to look out on the square from the courthouse balcony.

Harry Mathewson

I was at a ceremony at night outside

McKenna Hyde

This is the perfect spot to chillax in the grass with some friends when the weather is nice. We bring our sketchbooks, some people bring instruments... And there’s coffee, shops, & food around if you need a lil’ something extra. The only reason I’m rating this two stars & not five is because of the incredibly racist statue out front. Oh, you haven’t heard? There’s a monument that’s glorifying a confederate soldier sitting outside for everyone to see. It’s not inside a museum, it’s just out in the open. Luckily there are protests every week from people trying to tear it down. Anyway. It’s a great spot if you can ignore the blind racism embedded in our heritage for a second.

Temp Phone

Great for pics

Will Dehart

This is the place to come for some novelty! There are countless coffee shops, book stores, ice cream shops to go explore. Have a tasty burger at LSA burger, or have some ice cream at Beth Marie's. There is also a fascinating used book store on the north east corner. This is the parade bub. We many special events here. Come check it out for a grand time.

Lisa Scott

Very pretty old buildings in Downtown Denton,fun to go antique shopping

Anthony Moran

Still in cleaning and restoration efforts but great history and the staff is full of knowledge. There are no exhibits at moment but the building is open to look around. Bring the family.

Derek Arnold

Very neat walk through

bouquet d liz

Beautiful

Sumshot Khular

Great place and much happenings and cool place to hang out anytime.

Loretta Strange

Beautiful....area fun to play Pokemon'

Debra Uretsky

Enjoying tbe events they had where people enjoying the music from the unt.

Joshua Smith

Still a working courthouse for the commissioner's court, the county has made great use of its public space with a variety of displays including a small museum. I understand you can rent out the courthouse for weddings or similar events which would be a nice unique space for such an occasion.

Gloria Pastor

I love the atmosphere.

Michelle Haiduk

Lots of great historical exhibits. Friendly staff

tammy johnson

Nice experience

Tina Peplinski

Quaint square

Candice Bright

We were trying to find food open late but since it was a holiday nothing was open.. stumbled upon the courthouse looming there in the dark.. creepy af but awesome historical site

Marty Herz

Very modern and we'll laid out. Great if ur not there as a defendant, lol.

Ismael Hernandez

The square has some good nice eateries and shops.

Kevin Koch

Best courthouse in Denton!

blake kinney

It's a cool little area to visit walk around.

Mahdi Kaveh

Basically the main attraction of Denton!

brennan armshaw

The cool part is closed for renovations

Mark Parenthood

Worth a visit and if you're in Denton go to the Town Square. Great restaurants, retail stores, coffee shops, and taverns. Always a diverse group of unique people music and events in the area. The 100 plus year old building is a great backdrop for photos or just to sit and ponder life back then.

Sonya G

Women's March/Rally 2018. Grounds were well kept.

Wesley Kirk

The courthouse has beautiful architecture. The museum inside is always changing, with interesting topics and awesome illustrations by Joe Duncan. If you're very lucky you might be able to talk sometime into letting you go up onto the roof where you'll get the most amazing and rare view in all of Denton.

Karen Whistler

Beautiful construction, rich with history and a focal point for the community

Stitchlip's House

Now this is some serious entertainment.

Carolyn Tappan

Very pretty court house and nice landscaping

David Rose

This area is so much fun to visit. There's so much to see and so much history. I've taken some of the tours here and have been thoroughly impressed.

Jordan Rivers

Beautiful square, with super fast wifi. 5 stars would denton again

Mona Cox

Free. It was pretty vacant on Thanksgiving week, but this is a gem building and interior. We just wandered around on our own. Beautiful elevators. Interesting WWII cases with ration cards, old recipe books, posters. Building itself has gorgeous old safes (go to basement) and a gallery balcony courtroom that reminds of “To Kill a Mockingbird” scenes. Neat! Worth walking into a long-ago era.

Gnyana Praneeth Rachapalli

Very convenient, fast service and reliable people.

Peter Szajek

Food was priced high while the choice was sparse. The taste was at an ordinary chain level. Overwhelming amount of onions with fish. The appetizer was great. But both main dishes were lacking and were repeating through the night. Disappointing.

Blaine Kahler

Interesting courthouse located in revitalized square. Often good music in the area.

Josh Boyd

Beautiful setting especially at night. Don't miss the museum inside if you are into that type of thing because it's not very well advertised and had no idea it was even a thing until i saw another couple walk in.

Billy Phillips

Very pretty building!

Josh Smith

You are innocent till proven guilty , that's what they say

John Swicegood

This is a must visit area, day or nite. Small town feel. Historic during the day and college town nightlife ie .. Museum, Antiques, clothing, barber shop (the Bearded Lady), dining and music.

Apathetic Artist

Always fun place to go and the shops close by are amazing!

sherry hall

Pretty place

Robert Salley

Wonderful architecture and great small town vibe.

Chris Vanatta

Great place to spend the day

Dennis Weber

Awesome

Marie Nuchols

Historical and truly beautiful courthouse at the heart of the city. Love how much activity there is at the courthouse, including live music. Excellent place to take in the culture of Denton.

Ben Huttash

Very fun place to visit. Did you know that they give tours to the top of the clock tower.

Linda Wiltfong

Great experience

Shaun Tomerlin

I was here for the foreclosure auction so I didn't even go inside as the auction is held outside. It seemed to be well run and was completed quickly.

Sylvia Bonniwell

This place is pretty much the site of all my most pivotal life choices.

ZeppelinRules9

Beautiful historical building built in 1895 sitting on lush green lawns in the middle of the square surrounded by unique shops and eateries.

Richard Davis

It was great to see the old court house it was very nice.too.the part of old Denton was nice too..

Dale Carpenter

love it here I meet so many people and there family and kids.

Ethan Tucker

This museum is located in the center of the City of Denton's historic square. Its presence is unmistakable. It is a popular tourist attraction complete with memorials, artifacts, and objects that are fit for a museum. The building itself is the largest museum piece. It is surrounded by many local shops that give an experience that is truly unique.

Matthew Couch

Well preserved historic landmark. This entire block is a great environment. Beside the surrounding stores, restaurants and coffee shops they will occasionally have musicians playing on the lawn during the weekends. I also attended a concert on the lawn once. Great place!

Opher Banarie

Small town feel with an uptown vibe.

Austin Meeker

they told me to get out after a witnessed a fight on the stair

Paul Skipper

Lovely little museum gave me an idea on the history of the town

Megan Alexander

A beautiful town with so much charm

Tina von der Heiden

Very interesting

Chris Gurira

Quaint texas town with this beautiful 1800 style courthouse!

Jose Burton

This is a beautiful town square. And I'm from out of state just passing through. The court house is huge and stunning. I love the garden store called "the Garden Gate " on Elm street. Awesome stores all around including an ice cream store, a pub and restaurants to enjoy! I was actually at LSA Burger Co. right across the Courthouse and it's view from said location was stunning! There are a lot of little antique gift shops and bars around the area. It's a historical landmark location so don't expect to find anything fancy or modern. Loved the place!

B.Melusine Mihaltses

Lovely Tourist Visit to Denton....Enjoying the tour of North Texas & UNT.

Cpt Human

Nice lil place to walk around

Jennifer Ponton

Today pretty day nice shine sun warm and rexlas big smile

Javiana Gabriela Castellano Rojas

Beautiful place

Deval Patel

You Need to visit this place. This is not only running court house but there is a little museum where you can see History of Denton.

Roxan Castillo

Beautiful old building.

Jeff

I've lived here for years and didn't know all of the local history. This great little museum that helped remedy that. Small, but packs in more than you would expect. Very interesting and informative displays. Some great antique items from Texas past too. The staff was friendly and helpful. The only downside is the parking. The museum is literally the center of the city center. Since there are so many fantastic shops and things to see here, you almost always have to park a block or two away. But then you get to pass by all the cool shops too, so not much of a downside.

Ca P

Surprised by this little place! Loved the feel... employee was helpful and informative! Loved the “off the wall green screen!” Awesome touch. Had many many interactive & informative displays.

Michael Brown

not applicable from a personal perspective.However should be honest about what Historic means in code.

Jeff Gibson

I didn't get a chance to go inside but the building itself is a sight to see.

Rich Ferry

Great place. Historical, free wifi on the square and everything within walking distance!

Sam Gerard

Great place to come and learn about Denton at the museum. Spend time the quaint shops and enjoy the many places to eat around the square.

Ro and Reese D

Love this area and so beautiful with Christmas lights and lots of sweet small shops around and restaurants !

Morgan Gonzalez

It was amazing there was a and playing out front and my family and I stopped to listen and lived the small shops!

My Spicy Treasures

Tree lighting was fun

Caroline Hurry

What a beautiful downtown square!

Dam Rey

Ok

Jim Gantt

I was born and raised in Denton. My Dad's office was in the basement on the North side of the building.. In the 1950's the Denton County Welfare Department was in the basement and he was a Welfare Agent for the state of Texas and that's where his office was. I would go to work with him sometimes in the summer and I remember playing on the grounds and the outside stairways. Although I no longer live in Denton, I have many fond memories of the Court House on the Square. Sincerely, Jim Gantt

Jody Craig

Some of the exhibits were closed due to repairs from a fire but the building is beautiful and the history very interesting

jack cox

On the square!