Lots of ambient light! I actually got some decent shots of this one. Of course, the badly placed streetlight kind of washes things out a bit, but somehow I'll manage. I wanted to call this another wonder of the WPA, but I read (for the first time apparently) that the WPA wasn't founded until 1935. … Continue reading 488. Russellville, Pope County (AR40) →

With obligatory note that I've been to one of these both at home and abroad, Arkansas is getting a track record of courthouses that I approve of. After the last few counties, it's quite nice to keep that streak going. This is also the last one that I was going to be able to photograph … Continue reading 487. Clarksville, Johnson County (AR39) →

Booneville turned out to be another wonder of the WPA. What is they knew about making courthouses? Is it just that as they've gotten older their look has become more classic to us? Or what there an intentional choice that to do something that we just don't get any longer? It was built in 1928 … Continue reading 486. Booneville/Paris, Logan County (AR38) →

Ozark is another one of those Arkansas specific courthouses. Charleston, on the other hand, is handsome in red brick. I not only like both of them, but I think I am actually quite happy with them in general. Both are good looking and traditional as opposed to some places that have one really good one … Continue reading 485. Ozark/Charleston, Franklin County (AR37) →

I'm pretty sure this is the courthouse, Fort Smith withstanding. If it's not the courthouse, it's an old courthouse. For a while I suspected it was an old courthouse because it was only flying the US flag (and something else), not the Arkansas flag. It turned out there was a second flagpole with an Arkansas … Continue reading 484. Van Buren, Crawford County (AR36) →

The courthouse in Greenwood is OK. After seeing Waldron, it couldn't be worse. Fort Smith, though obviously newer, is nice. I don't dislike either of them. And, as we turn to the right in Fort Smith, we run across what has started to become my least favorite quote to see on any memorial ever! Monument … Continue reading 483. Greenwood/Fort Smith, Sebastian County (AR35) →

Ummm... I wish the architect of this courthouse had not taken a break from his (or her) lucrative career designing nursing homes. This hurt me on so many levels. You don't even know... Unless, of course, you've been reading this for a while, in which case, you probably have at least an inkling. I feel … Continue reading 482. Waldron, Scott County (AR34) →

And here I was, back in Arkansas, looking at this actual glorious wonder of the WPA. That said, not only do we have one of these back in Texas, I've seen at least one other, too. I didn't get the lovely little voice welcoming me to Arkansas. Thinking back, I hadn't gotten it when I … Continue reading 481. Mena, Polk County (AR33) →

All right, I like this courthouse. I know it's not extraordinary, but not every courthouse has to be. It's a little grander than I would have expected for the town, but then again the town may be a little bigger than I thought it would be. While I am loathe to include drug references because … Continue reading 480. Poteau, LeFlore County (OK74) →

Welcome to the frontier, folks!  At least that’s what this feels like here.  Of course, this actually was the frontier until the early 20th century (remember, Oklahoma didn’t become a state until 1907 [it’s crazy to think that when my grandfather was born, Oklahoma was not a state]).  Of course this was made by the WPA, … Continue reading 479. Wilburton, Latimer County (OK73) →