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) →

Hold up! This was an unexpected opportunity... So I was driving through Lakin on my way to my starting destination for the next morning and wondered if the courthouse might be illuminated. When I got there, I realized it wasn't, but there was some ambient light. Maybe, I though, I could do some kind of … Continue reading 375. Lakin, Kearny County (KS014) →

If this courthouse wasn't built by the WPA, I'll eat a hat. A hat made of food, mind you, but a hat nonetheless. It's handsome, but the biggest thing it had in my eyes at that moment was that it was quite unlike many of the others I'd been running into at that point. Variety … Continue reading 374. Syracuse, Hamilton County (KS013) →

Oh, Mother of Crap, what is that...thing? I'm not going to go so far as to call it a crime against architecture and an affront to courthouses everywhere, but I will most certainly think it. It just makes me...sad. And they built this to replace... ...this lovely creature? I'm sure there were issues of modernization … Continue reading 373. Tribune, Greely County (KS012) →