May 31, 2009
The plant was constructed by OG&E in the 1920s and generated power by burning coal until it was decommissioned in 1983. OG&E sold the plant in 1986. In 1989, the ODOL discovered illegal asbestos removal and salvage operations were occurring at the site and shut down the operations. The building was locked down and secured to prevent trespass and...
| Location Class: •Industrial |
| City: •Ponca City |
| Photographer: •Fiend •Psychosaw13 |
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May 30, 2009
The story of Frank and Samantha Labadie is as ironic as it is haunting. The tale takes place in Copan, Oklahoma. We are not for sure when they were wed but considering the seven year age difference between the two, we are guessing in the early 1880s. But since there are no more Labadie relatives, we are not 100% sure. The story goes like this… Ever since...
| Location Class: •Residential |
| City: •Copan |
| Photographer: •Psychosaw13 |
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May 24, 2009
The Dowell Center was built in 1926-1927 and started it’s life as the Petroleum Building. At that time, It was the tallest structure in Oklahoma City at 18 stories. In 1931, the Ramsey Tower and 1st National Bank were finished, each having 31 stories and relegating it to third place height-wise. The project cost $750,000 and featured imported...
| Location Class: •Commercial |
| City: •Oklahoma City |
| Photographer: •AbandonedOK Team |
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May 24, 2009
In 1909 John Bernard Klein founded the J. B. Klein Iron and Foundry Company in Oklahoma City. The company advertised foundry work of all types, including ornamental iron, brass work, wire, stairs, railings, fire escapes, and construction products. By the time Klein died in 1925, the company had begun to specialize in steel works for bridges, buildings, and...
| Location Class: •Industrial |
| City: •Oklahoma City |
| Photographer: •AbandonedOK Team |
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May 24, 2009
In Oklahoma City the first club was formed in October of 1889 when the wives of leading merchants met at the home of Captain Stiles to form the Philomathea Club. Drawing its name from the Greek for “love of learning” the club “has held aloft without ceasing the torch of learning and light” to this day.
The Philomathea Club immediately set...
| Location Class: •Government |
| City: •Oklahoma City |
| Photographer: •AbandonedOK Team |
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May 23, 2009
The Hudson Refinery site is a 200-acre, abandoned, crude oil refinery that was active from 1922 to 1982. Located north and south of State Highway 33 on the west side of Cushing, the North and South Refinery properties include approximately 165 and 35 acres, respectively. Over sixty years of refinery operations resulted in environmental contamination at...
| Location Class: •Industrial |
| City: •Cushing |
| Photographer: •Fiend |
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May 23, 2009
The old Santa Fe Depot at the west end of Broadway in downtown Cushing, was built about 1918 and abandoned in the 1980s. When rail service disappeared, the rails were ripped up and there was talk of tearing down what some say is the “best-looking old depot ” in the state. Chamber of commerce, city and civic leaders formed a corporation several years...
| Location Class: •Railroad |
| City: •Cushing |
| Photographer: •Fiend |
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May 22, 2009
After doing some research and visiting the place again and reading through some scattered papers, it appears this building was used as a child care for the East Side Church of Christ. Each room has a cubby hole area with children’s names above each box. I can’t determine if this was built for this purpose or if this was a house first, day care...
| Location Class: •Commercial |
| City: •Oklahoma City |
| Photographer: •AbandonedOK Team |
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May 20, 2009
Although the final graduating class at Norfolk High had only 5 graduates, the 11 room brick school closed its doors in 1958. The school grew up in wealth surrounded by a panorama of glistening oil tanks near Cushing. The school was built in 1922 in Payne County. The school has enjoyed a colorful record, heavily fringed in oil boom wealth of the early...
| Location Class: •School |
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| Photographer: •Fiend |
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May 10, 2009
The Walcourt building was built in 1927 by architect Joe Davis and builder Charles G. Beveridge and opened as an apartment building by its original owner, H.E. Musson. The 9,378-square-foot, two-story red brick building was designed in a Jacobethan Revival style of architecture.
In 1982, the building was listed on the National Register of Historic places. At the...
| Location Class: •Residential |
| City: •Oklahoma City |
| Photographer: •AbandonedOK Team •Billy! |
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May 10, 2009
It is still one of the most captivating buildings in Lawton, a multistory fortress of red brick occupying a solid city block, its signature narrow smokestack rising above almost everything else in the downtown industrial zone.
But if it’s still imposing enough to demand attention, in its heyday the Fairmont Creamery at 411 SE Larrance Avenue was not only...
| Location Class: •Industrial •Commercial |
| City: •Lawton |
| Photographer: •AbandonedOK Team |
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May 10, 2009
In 1950, the Lakeside Golf Course just east of Lake Overholser, changed from golf course, to drive-in theater. Built and operated by R.E. and C.B. McFarland, Lakeaire had a 600 car lot, a 60 foot screen, and a top-of-the-line projection system.
The brothers also owned the Coronado Theater in Warr Acres, which was the first home to the towns city...
| Location Class: •Commercial |
| City: •Bethany |
| Photographer: •AbandonedOK Team |
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May 6, 2009
This water treatment facility is in Sapulpa, just north of Historic Route 66. While researching this location, I couldn’t find any interesting information on the plants history, but I did read some fascinating articles. From what I could gather, the process of closing down this plant began in 1977 when the city of Sapulpa installed a pipeline that brought...
| Location Class: •Industrial |
| City: •Sapulpa |
| Photographer: •Fiend |
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May 4, 2009
This is the 2 houses on 63rd east of Kelly and north of the service rd. One is a standard Oklahoma red stone country house built in 1935 and has pathways that lead all over the property and gardens. On the other side, there is a very large modern house built in 1949 connected to the other one via a stone bridge with a swimming pool in the middle of it. The...
| Location Class: •Commercial •Residential |
| City: •Oklahoma City |
| Photographer: •AbandonedOK Team |
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