Pittsburg County Courthouse
McAlester, Oklahoma
 
 
     
 
 
 Completed - 1926
 Architect - Layton, Hicks, & Forsyth
Photos: Robert Deering 7/9/2019
 
 
 
 
 
 
COUNTY ORGANIZED: July 16, 1907 as an original county from Choctaw land.

COUNTY NAMED FOR:   Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with the "h" removed, the city of origin of one of the first settlers.

COUNTY SEAT NAMED FOR: J. J. McAlester, who later became Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma and was immortalized as a character in the novel True Grit, which was then made into feature films in 1969 and 2010.

COURTHOUSES: The county used leased buildings intially, including a former federal courthouse.  The current courthouse opened in 1926.  It was originally constructed as the Busby Hotel in 1909, and after a fire in 1924, it was remodeled into a couthouse by Layton, Hicks, & Forsyth.

STANDING: One - 1926 brick courthouse with Neo-Classicla and Second Renaissance Revivel elements.
       
 
1909 Busby Hotel
Before Modifications
ADDRESS: 230 E Carl Albert Parkway, McAlister, Oklahoma