Writing Travel

Wednesday Window ~ U.S. Post Office and Courthouse, Downtown Oklahoma City

Massive bronze grill above an entry to the 1912 Beaux Arts U.S. Post Office and Courthouse in Oklahoma City, the first monumental building erected in Oklahoma City.

The structure was designed by James Knox Taylor, supervising architect for the U.S. Treasury Department. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1974, It was restored in 1992 and now serves as an office building and courthouse.

Wednesday Window ~ On the historic Franklin County Courthouse square, Ottawa, Kansas

A relic from the 1880s, this elaborately detailed building sits directly across from the Franklin County Courthouse in Ottawa, Kansas. (I checked. The asking price is $149,900.)

Wednesday Window ~ Early evening light, Centre Pompidou, Paris

Wednesday Window ~ Red River Trading Post, Museum of the Great Plains, Lawton, Oklahoma

At the reconstructed 1840s Red River Trading Post at the Museum of the Great Plains in Lawton, Oklahoma, a reenactor describes his life as a frontiersman trader.