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Perry, Oklahoma

Perhaps the most striking building in the downtown Perry business district area is the two-story red brick structure listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is now known as the Joseph Foucart building, named for the French-born architect who was responsible for some of the most stylish structures in Oklahoma, particularly the territorial capitol of Guthrie. Originally commissioned in 1902 as home for the Noble County Bank, it now houses offices of the Perry Chamber of Commerce, Perry Main Street and the Perry Development Coalition, three agencies dedicated to the economic, social and aesthetic welfare of this city.

Principal occupants for most of the first half of this century were a series of banks using the basement and main floor, and lawyers, doctors, dentists and other professionals on the second floor. At one time the basement also was the home of a German-language newspaper which served the large West European community in Noble county. Because it symbolizes early-day Perry, a sketch of the Foucart building now serves as the logo for Perry Main Street

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The Wolleson-Nicewander Building

Originally the "Boston Store" built in 1894 and it was one of the first permanent buildings of stone on the square. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places

Perry, OK Historic Buildings

St. Rose Catholic Church

The St. Rose Catholic Church built in 1922 welcomes visitors through its magnificient set of brass double doors artisticly decorated in metalwork of symbolic emblems representing twelve saints.

Perry, OK Historic Churches

The Joseph Foucart Building

Perhaps the most striking building in the downtown Perry business district area is the two-story red brick structure listed on the National Register of Historic Places

Perry, OK Historic Buildings

The Famous Store

James Lobsitz founded the Famous Store in October of 1893 in a modest frame building a half a block east of the present building. His general merchandise business prospered and he erected the 50 by 90 foot two-story brick building in 1908

Perry, OK Historic Buildings

The Pancoast Building

J.A.. Pancoast, a lawyer, erected this building in approximately 1905

Perry, OK Historic Buildings

Things to do near Perry, OK

Ad Buck Museum of Science and History

The A.D. Buck Museum of Science and History was founded in 1913 by Mr. C. E. Johnson who was a biology instructor. One of his...