These Walls: Bartlesville's First Court Place

Few buildings encapsulate irony like Bartlesville's First Court Place.

The well-preserved structure now stands as home to Graham Rogers Insurance - marking still another irony, that a structure so closely identified to past crimes should house a company seeking to help protect against such losses."I'm not quite sure I should tell this here," Singleton said of one such event, although like many such criminal exploits from the Roaring '20s and Depression '30s, she noted the stories live on in newspaper accounts and local memories. Indeed, metal plaques around the structure proclaim several of the more colorful encounters.Eastman is a prominent self-taught photographer. His photographs have appeared in Time and Life magazines and are in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art among other museums, the lawsuit says.Add to Digg Bookmark with del.icio.us Add to NewsvineImage Available: http://www2.marketwire.com/mw/frame_mw?attachid=1668407A color version of the photo was enlarged, however, at a Warner Bros. facility and installed as the "piece de resistance" of the redecoration of Fuentes' home. Eastman never was mentioned on the show.Bullard, who was returning Wednesday night from a trip to London, did not return a message seeking comment by press time. Press contacts at NBCUniversal, Bravo's parent company, and Goodbye Pictures, the show's producer, also did not respond to requests for comment by press time. A Warner Bros. spokesman said in an email the company had no immediate comment.*Pricing varies depending on the package and is valid on qualifying events through 2011. **Brides may upgrade any part of their selected package for a fee.After nearly six decades, that yellow brick and stone building at 501 SE Frank Phillips Blvd. gave up its governmental seat in June 1973. Seeking to preserve the structure's essence, in 1981 a group of Bartlesville citizens succeeded in getting the old courthouse on the National Register of Historic Places. Three years later South Country Builders capped a novel restoration and remodeling, turning the beloved site into commercial offices while retaining the ornamentation and environment of the 1914 era.

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Author: Kirby Lee Davis