Jan 3, 2012
Dunjee All-School-Association or Dunjee Negro School System began in 1947. The area was known as Green Pastures at this time and had an elementary school, middle school, high school and a large field house shared by all three schools. The residents of the Dunjee area had long suffered at the hand of segregation in Oklahoma. Before 1963 it was part of the Choctaw...
| Location Class: •School |
| City: •Spencer |
| Photographer: •FriendlyMic |
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Dec 21, 2011
Established in 1953 , it opened as a Steel Foundry called Dalton Precision. Locals complained that Dalton would leave steel dust through the air that would ruin the paint on your car. It was later bought out by Robert Evans in 1980.
There’s not a lot that can be said about Evans besides that it was an industry that produced oil drums back in the...
| Location Class: •Industrial •Commercial |
| City: •Cushing |
| Photographer: •FriendlyMic |
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Dec 19, 2011
Many people in Yukon, Oklahoma pass around several rumors as to the actual identity of the place. Some say it’s an insane asylum; some say it was a haunted church. Many kids today claim to know exactly what it is, but then again, they only go at night and assume the worst. In reality, after digging through old files and asking the next door neighbor,...
| Location Class: •Residential •Hospital |
| City: •Yukon |
| Photographer: •FriendlyMic |
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Dec 16, 2011
Opening as a middle school in 1928, Sunnyside was built on donated land. The piece of land that was donated specifically for use as a school. The school was closed in the 1970′s due to low enrollment. Since the property is no longer being used as a school there is a dispute as to the ownership of the property.
| Location Class: •School |
| City: •Oklahoma City |
| Photographer: •FriendlyMic |
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Nov 17, 2011
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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Nov 16, 2011
Not much can be said about this location other than it’s a nursing home that came under fire from the health board for possible abuse and various code violations. There are several articles on NewsOK.com that give a bit more overview.
Whispering Pines Nursing Center’s closing leaves many in shock
Residents of Whispering Pines Nursing Center and their...
| Location Class: •Residential •Hospital |
| City: •Norman |
| Photographer: •AbandonedOK Team •Billy! |
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Nov 15, 2011
After the forceful Indian removals from the Eastern Untied States, President Grant and others in office decided that the only way to get the Indians to settle peacefully on their new reservations that they would need to be Americanized. They would need to loose their traditional ways of thinking and living. In the eyes of the officials the Indians would in turn...
| Location Class: •School •Government |
| City: •Concho |
| Photographer: •AbandonedOK Team •Billy! |
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Mar 7, 2011
Consolidated District No 5 is located in a small abandoned town in Pottawatomie county known as Harjo. Harjo was an unincorporated community and had a post office established June 24, 1921. Mail service was discontinued on August 31, 1954.
Little is known about the history of the school. It was built in 1930 along with a residential house for the acting...
| Location Class: •School |
| City: •Harjo |
| Photographer: •Wendi & Amanda |
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Feb 1, 2011
Each year since 1993, Preservation Oklahoma, Inc. has published a list of Oklahoma’s Most Endangered Historic Places. Abandoned Oklahoma and Preservation OK are partnering up this year to document these locations to help raise awareness. Lists over the past 16 years have shown incredible diversity in the types of sites and preservation challenges they...
| Location Class: •Commercial •School •Government |
| City: •Oklahoma City |
| Photographer: •AbandonedOK Team |
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Jan 15, 2011
Tidewater Oil Company (Tydol) was a major petroleum refining and marketing company in the U.S. for more than 80 years. Tidewater was best known for its Flying A-branded products and gas stations, and for Veedol motor oil, which was known throughout the world.
Tidewater, a national company, built this refinery in the Drumright area. The refinery was the center of...
| Location Class: •Industrial |
| City: •Drumright |
| Photographer: •Billy! •Fiend |
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Dec 31, 2010
Rosenwald Hall, a rectangular red-brick building with white clapboard sections, served the community of Lima, Oklahoma, from 1921 to 1966. Duringperiod it was Lima’s only elementary school. Lima, one of twenty-nine all-Black towns founded in Oklahoma before statehood (twenty-five in the Indian Territory and four in the Oklahoma Territory), is one of only...
| Location Class: •School |
| City: •Lima |
| Photographer: •Wendi & Amanda |
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Oct 16, 2010
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Maud, OK is best known as the birthplace of Wanda Jackson, the queen of rockabilly. The town is located at the intersection of State Highways 59 and 9A, with its western half of the town located in Pottawatomie County and its eastern half in Seminole County. The town was established along the dividing line between Oklahoma and Indian territories and in...
| Location Class: •Ghost Town |
| City: •Maud |
| Photographer: •Wendi & Amanda |
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Sep 30, 2010
Lovell began as a Post office on May 22, 1889 while unassigned lands were opened for settlement. It’s original name Perth, was changed in 1906 to honor that man who settled and developed the town site, James W. Lovell. Perth, soon to be Lovell, became an agricultural trade center upon completion of a railroad route connecting Guthrie to Enid in 1902,...
| Location Class: •School |
| City: •Lovell |
| Photographer: •Billy! |
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Sep 22, 2010
Beauty’s Cafe featured a full service Cafe and a small selection of convenience items, the business made over $150 per day, and nearly $600 in monthly profit.
| Location Class: •Commercial |
| City: •Oklahoma City |
| Photographer: •AbandonedOK Team •Billy! |
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Sep 11, 2010
Sunset Estates was opened as a long term nursing facility in 1977 for medicaid and medicare patients only. There were 62 beds.
They provided many services to residents such as clinical laboratory services, dental services, dietary services, mental and social services and speech and language pathology.
In 1997 a Pottawatomie county judge found Sunset Estates...
| Location Class: •Hospital |
| City: •Maud |
| Photographer: •Wendi & Amanda |
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Sep 8, 2010
The Riviera Drive-In was once one of south Oklahoma City”s floruishing theatres boasting a 700 car capacity.
The Riviera Drive-In closed in 1999 after thunderstorm in which the screen was blown down. The fallen screen, ticket booth, speaker poles, projection booth, concession stand, and marquee all remained vacant and seemingly forgotten for...
| Location Class: •Commercial |
| City: •Oklahoma City |
| Photographer: •Billy! |
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Dunjee School – After Fire
Posted on Jan 3, 2012
Evans Cushing Industry
Posted on Dec 21, 2011
Cottonwood Manor
Posted on Dec 19, 2011
Hissom Memorial Center REVISITED
Posted on Oct 20, 2010
Page Woodson REVISITED
Posted on Jun 21, 2009
Chilocco Indian School REVISITED
Posted on Nov 27, 2009
Morrison Grain
Posted on Jun 7, 2010
Preservation OK Endangered Places
Posted on Feb 1, 2011
Cushing Water Works
Posted on Mar 16, 2010
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