Very handsome and stately, no? At the same time, I was pretty much over red brick by this point. One gets tired of the sameness, especially when red brick is the lion's share of what there is to find out in the field. What I didn't expect, as evidenced by the SUV with the open … Continue reading 463. Ocmulgee, Ocmulgee County (OK57) →

I have never seen quite this combination of brick and homey kitsch before in my life. The painted plant holders are a nice little touch in the kids' rock garden. Otherwise, painted pallets? That's gonna be a "no" from me, dawg (as they say in the parlance of our times). I wasn't in the mood … Continue reading 462. Eufaula, McIntosh County (OK56) →

Nice little change up in color! Everything around here seems to be some variation of red (no doubt this is exactly what Gillian Welch was singing about), so a little bit of blue, even slight and subdued, is nice. I wish I was here during the day to get a better look at it in … Continue reading 461. Stigler, Haskell County (OK55) →

This is a slightly strange courthouse to me. It's slightly rugged, but not terribly rugged. It's both human but imposing, a place of justice, but of the overbearing, possibly autocratic sort. Can an ahistorical fixture be a thing? I guess? I can't entirely explain it, but then again I don't have to. It exists whether … Continue reading 460. Sallisaw, Sequoyah County (OK54) →

This is definitely less bad than Wagoner. In fact, I believe this is similar to what Wagoner looked like previously. It also has an extension which, while they try to make it blend in it a bit (and it does a passable job), it seems just so stylistically different that, even though it attempts to … Continue reading 459. Stilwell, Adair County (OK53) →

Well... It's not bad, but it's not great, either. I wouldn't call it elegant, but it does have a certain earnestness to it. I'm wondering if this is late 50's/early 60's or late 60's/early 70's. Unfortunately, I can't really tell. As many courthouses as I've been to, I'm hardly an expert on architecture. Times like … Continue reading 458. Tahlequah, Cherokee County (OK52) →

This is a suitable impressive edifice. I don't know what exactly I expected to find here. I won't lie: I have a little of the myth of the Okie from Muskogee in my brain. I was going to make a joke based on the song, but let's face it, that's just low hanging fruit. That … Continue reading 457. Muskogee, Muskogee County (OK51) →

Ummm... No. Just plain NO. How could they do this to a courthouse? You can see from the main part that it it was probably some kind of WPA courthouse and it wouldn't have looked quite lovely on its own, I bet. But then they built around it? It looks like they put in some … Continue reading 456. Wagoner, Wagoner County (OK50) →

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1MZWrIN7ac With all the preparing for the Texas Challenge and all, I forgot to mention that I was on Geocache Talk last night! Want to watch me talk about stuff?

Holy crap! Once again, Oklahoma, you have some of the most interesting courthouses. This is fairly impressive for a town of 18,000-ish. Sure, it's more modern, but it's not heritage they're trying to emulate here, I think. It's power. And for a town of this size, it succeeds in its aim. The cache was equally … Continue reading 455. Claremore, Rogers County (OK49) →