Some of you have been reading my thoughts on courthouses for quite a while while some of you may be new to this peccadillo. Those of you who have can probably imagine what I thought as I pulled up here. For those of you who can't, well, I'm not in the habit of quoting myself, … Continue reading 385. Lawton, Comanche County (OK17) →

This courthouse has a really, really weird layout. It's got two side doors (one of which is pictured above) that look like they both point you toward another entrance. That door is part of an addition that looks like some sort of tin building added on. Did they put a tin cover over the front … Continue reading 384. Hobart, Kiowa County (OK16) →

Now this is a courthouse! Just imagine having to walk up those steps to deal with the county! It looks like something Perry Mason would descend from after victoriously defending his client in small town...wherever his client was from! And a working clock tower, too? May I also offer kudos here. Everywhere talks a lot … Continue reading 383. Cordell, Washita County (OK15) →

Alright, this courthouse is quite a bit better. Sure, it looks a bit like a high school (one day, I think I'm going to group all these courthouses that look like schools), but at least it has a certain personality to it? There's always a cemetery. It's funny, but I realized as I walked through … Continue reading 382. Arapahoe, Custer County (OK14) →

This courthouse literally looks like a modern home builder was contracted to put up an office building, so they built it and stuccoed the crap out of it to give it an earthy feel. As I've said before, I understand modernizing updates, but this? This looks like a newly built school in a newly built … Continue reading 381. Taloga, Dewey County (OK13) →

This is definitely a major county courthouse. I didn't know I was going to make that joke when I took this photograph, but, in hindsight, of course I was whether we liked it or not. It's definitely not a minor courthouse. When I'm on the road, I play this little game where I attempt to … Continue reading 380. Fairview, Major County (OK12) →

I get the feeling that in any large city this would be some kind of bank or other commercial enterprise. I don't know what gives me that feeling, but that's what I get off of it. Maybe it just has the look of the downtown bank from any number of small town movies. Perhaps there … Continue reading 379. Cherokee, Alfalfa County (OK11) →

I don't know what to make of this courthouse quite yet. Part of it seems a little brutalistic for me, but the other part is that weird sort of 1970's mashup thing. I'm on the fence. However, I've run into something here that I've never encountered in all my courthouses and travels thus far. I … Continue reading 378. Alva, Woods County (OK10) →

This one feels like a cheat. Maybe this can be considered a passable photo, that's not as bad as some of the others I've gotten in the past, but you can barely make out any detail at all. How can I make any architectural judgements if I can barely see the architecture itself? Knowing that … Continue reading 377. Coldwater, Comanche County (KS016) →

After passing through Garden City, Cimarron, and Dodge, here I was. I didn't think I was going to be coming through here, but I got routed really close, and since I was only going to be a few miles away, I figured why not? Might as well give it a try considering Lakin seemed to … Continue reading 376. Greenburg, Kiowa County (KS015) →