Beckham County Courthouse, County courthouse in Sayre, Oklahoma.
Beckham County Courthouse is a three-story brick and stone structure with a central dome supported by twelve Doric columns. The building features Tuscan columns at its entrances and clock faces on all sides of the dome.
Beckham County Courthouse was built in 1911 to plans by the firm Layton, Smith & Hawk, with Oklahoma Quarries & Construction Co. as contractor. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 23, 1984. The building remains the county courthouse of Beckham County.
The courthouse appears in John Ford's 1940 film adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath. In the story, families such as the Joads drove through Sayre on U.S. Route 66 toward California, and many migrants regarded the town as the beginning of the West.
The courthouse stands on a one-acre parcel in downtown Sayre, at the corner of Third and Walnut Streets, with the main entrances facing east and west. Visitors approach the building on foot from the surrounding square; the dome and clock panels are best seen from across the street.
The courthouse appeared in the 1940 film adaptation of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. Migrant families traveling U.S. Route 66 through Sayre saw the town as the start of the West, and the building stands at Third and Walnut Streets on a one-acre lot.
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