The courthouse sits on a 1 acre (4,000 m2) parcel of land in downtown Sayre, at the intersection of Third and Walnut Streets.

A dentillated cornice and a brick parapet encircle the building at its roof line.

[4] A large dome supported by twelve Doric columns rises from an octagonal base on the roof of the courthouse.

[3][b] The courthouse appeared in the film The Grapes of Wrath, a 1940 adaptation of the John Steinbeck novel.

Families headed to California (such as the Joads of the film) passed through Sayre on U.S. Route 66, and many viewed the city as the start of the West.