The Severs Block is the dominant historic building on East 6th Street downtown — a long, three-storey brick commercial block built between 1904 and 1907, the years bracketing Oklahoma statehood. It originally housed dry-goods stores on the ground floor and offices above; the Severs Hotel occupied much of the upper floors and was for decades the best address in town.
Today it is partly restored, partly tenanted, and partly vacant — a familiar Oklahoma small-town story. From the outside, the rhythm of arched second-storey windows and the heavy stone cornice still give a strong sense of what downtown Okmulgee looked like when the oil boom and the Council House made this a place that mattered. Walk one block from the Council House to see it.