Editing Tulsa County, Oklahoma (section)

===Tulsa County Court House===
In 1911–1912, Tulsa County built a court house in Tulsa on the northeast corner of Sixth Street and South Boulder Avenue. [[Yule marble]] was used in its construction. The land had previously been the site of a mansion owned by George Perryman and his wife. This was the court house where a mob of white residents gathered on May 31, 1921, threatening to lynch a young black man held in the top-floor jail. It was the beginning of the [[Tulsa Race Massacre]].

An advertisement for bids specified that the building should be fireproof, built of either reinforced concrete or steel and concrete. The size was to be {{convert|120|by|120|feet|m}} with three floors and a full basement. Cost of the building was not to exceed $200,000. The jail on the top floor was not to exceed $25,000.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=32hYAAAAYAAJ&dq=Tulsa+County+Courthouse+built+in+1910&pg=RA6-PA52 "Sketches for Court House and County Jail." ''The American Contractor''.] Accessed July 15, 2015.</ref>

The building continued to serve until the present court house building (shown above) opened at 515 South Denver. The old building was then demolished and the land was sold to private investors. The land is now the site of the [[Bank of America Center (Tulsa)|Bank of America building]], completed in 1967.