views of the human condition and other wonders of the world
Upper story windows of the Hotel Baker, built in 1928 at a cost exceeding $1 million. At the time, the 55-room hotel was the most luxurious small resort hotel in the country. The structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
In its original heyday, the Hotel Baker's Rainbow Room headliners included Tommy Dorsey, Guy Lombardo, Louis Armstrong, and Lawrence Welk.
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.
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.)
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.