Grady County Courthouse – Chickasha

Address:	326 West Choctaw Avenue, Chickasha, Oklahoma	County:	Grady
Started:		Completed:
Agencies:	PWA	NRHP:	March 10, 2005

Current Usage

County Courthouse

Description

NRHP Describes this building as: “is a three-story building with a partial above-grade basement and a flat roof. Designed by the prominent Oklahoma architectural firm of Layton, Hicks and Forsyth, the building was constructed between 1934-1935 of Texas shellstone. The building is classified as Art Deco with a Classical Revival influence. The primary doors are original, double, aluminum, glazed slab with a transom and elaborate aluminum ornamentation. The only other secondary door in the historic courthouse is located on the west side and is a plain, aluminum, glazed slab. The historic, white, metal, awning windows were replaced in the late 1990s with dark, metal, three-pane, hung windows of the same overall dimensions. The windows have a narrow stone sill. There is a wide shellstone chimney with a metal vent located on the west side of the north elevation. The roof also has several antennae, towers and other vent fixtures. The building is embellished with fluted pilasters, a highly ornamented cornice and elaborate, abstract, low relief, sculpture panels above the doors and windows. Although of note within the local community, the ornamentation and other features of the building were typical of county courthouses constructed in Oklahoma in the 1930s.”