Editing Gonzales, Texas (section)

===Historic monuments and buildings===
The site of the [[Battle of Gonzales]], in the village of Cost, off Highway 97, is marked by a handsome stone and bronze monument commissioned by the State of Texas in 1910. The Gonzales Memorial Museum, built and dedicated by the State of Texas as part of the state's 1936 Centennial celebrations, houses the ''Come and Take It'' cannon and memorializes Gonzales's Old Eighteen and the Immortal 32. The monument at Texas Heroes Square is the work of the Italian-born San Antonio artist [[Pompeo Coppini]], Texas' leading sculptor in his day.

The [[Gonzales County Courthouse]] (1896), on the National Register of Historic Places, is by the master of Texas courthouses, [[James Riely Gordon]]. Winning a country-wide competition for the [[Bexar County Courthouse]] in San Antonio launched Gordon's career, as the first of 72 courthouses, 18 of them in Texas (with 12 remaining in this state). [[James Riely Gordon|J. Riely Gordon]] was also a master of the [[Romanesque Revival]] style, hugely popular in the 1890s, and seen here with good effect.