Perry Travel Guide

 Rich62 Says:  CHECK OUT THE large mural/map of Oklahoma painted on the side of a downtown building. It was recently restored and looks very sharp. 

 Rich62 Says:  Located in an unpretentious storefront on the town square is the studio of Jim Franklin, a friendly and very talented sculptor whose works are spread across this country. As my wife and I were strolling along the sidewalk one evening, he gave a wave of his arm and beconded... 

 Rich62 Says:  Perry's town square is larger than most. Not only does it have the county courthouse, it also has the library, a bandshell, and there is still room for green space and flowers. very nice.The courthouse had a brush with history; The Oklahoma City bomber was stopped on a... 

 mrclay2000 Says:  By far the most prominent building in Perry (after the courthouse) is the St Rose of Lima Catholic Church, a tremendous red-brick building whose tall spire can be seen all the way from the distant lanes of I-35. Situated amid a very modest neighborhood, this elegant and... 

 mrclay2000 Says:  This Perry page of mine is fast beginning a cookie-cutter commonplace for Oklahoma towns. As a matter of fact, the town website features most of the photos contained on this page! The national bank, the courthouse and the Carnegie library have since been checked off, so now... 

 mrclay2000 Says:  Many of Oklahoma's towns were beneficiaries of the Carnegie Foundation, which built free libraries in the poorer communities. Many of these rose in the 1920s and 1930s, and are listed on historic registers, national, state and county. The example in Noble County (from 1909)... 

 mrclay2000 Says:  Listed as many are on the National Register of Historic Places, the Noble County courthouse brings a large and stately edifice in 20th-Century Revival to a large and almost forested town square. If such architecture is not to your liking, there are several trees on the... 

 mrclay2000 Says:  Built in 1902 and now housing the Perry Chamber of Commerce, the First National Bank (formerly the Noble County Bank) was designed by prominent territorial architect Joseph Foucart, a Belgian-born builder responsible for many of the buildings in Guthrie, Oklahoma. While the... 

 mrclay2000 Says:  The local newspaper began production almost immediately after the Cherokee Strip opened to white settlement, as the power brokers and newsmongers sought to establish control of the new county. The building depicted dates from 1894, though the newspaper has long since folded... 

 mrclay2000 Says:  Visitors to my other Oklahoma pages have already seen that there is scarcely an absence of town clocks on those pages. This is a feature of rural or frontier America, but also to a different degree a fixture of urban areas. In many Oklahoma towns (though not in Perry), a... 

 mrclay2000 Says:  In a town like Perry, the original buildings are only kept alive by the willingness and energy of modern businesses to move onto the premises, preserve the original appearance as much as possible and welcome all clients and customers as their former occupants once did. The...