Jun 27, 2009
The Arcadia Elementary School has a rich history in the small town east of Edmond. When the school was built in 1950, it was a white-only school. When the all black school Dunbar merged with Arcadia, the small school faced an uncertain future when many of the white students parents pulled them from the school and moved them to other schools so they...
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| City: •Arcadia |
| Photographer: •AbandonedOK Team |
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Jun 25, 2009
This is one of the last old gasoline filling stations still standing in this part of the country. No one knows for sure, but it is thought to have been built in the late teens or early twenties. It had two pumps, one for regular gas and one for ethyl, which was a little higher octane. Oil was dispensed from a 50-gallon drum, which was laid down on its side on a...
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| City: •Arcadia |
| Photographer: •AbandonedOK Team |
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Jun 25, 2009
Located northeast of the city, the Lone Star school district included nine square miles, had only one school, and 130 elementary pupils. In 1964, voters of the district, opted to join the Oklahoma City Public School system with 172 of 300 eligible voters casting their votes. However, just over 10 years later in 1976, the Lone Star school closed its doors as an...
| Location Class: •School |
| City: •Edmond•Oklahoma City |
| Photographer: •AbandonedOK Team |
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Jun 21, 2009
Originally built as the Lowell School, and renamed Douglas High School around 1935, this magnificent structure served the once segregated black students of the east side of Oklahoma City until de-segregation began around 1969. After this, the new Douglas High School was built and its students moved a few blocks east to its current location. Re-branded as Page...
| Location Class: •School |
| City: •Oklahoma City |
| Photographer: •AbandonedOK Team |
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Jun 21, 2009
Owned by the Edwards family, Preachers Wall is one of the several homes in the Red Ridge valley. Preachers Wall was the home of Archibald Edwards and his wife Sarah. Judging by some of the material we found, our best guess is that the Edwards’ left the home in 1994.
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| Location Class: •Residential |
| City: •Oklahoma City |
| Photographer: •AbandonedOK Team |
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Jun 20, 2009
No Vacancy – Fabled past still fills empty halls of Lincoln Plaza
Steve Lackmeyer. “No Vacancy – Fabled past still fills empty halls of Lincoln Plaza.” Oklahoman, The (Oklahoma City, OK) 22 Sep. 2007, CITY, BUSINESS: 1B. NewsBank Access World News. [UCO Library, Edmond, OK]. 19 Jun. 2009. .
No Vacancy – Fabled past still fills empty...
| Location Class: •Commercial •Government |
| City: •Oklahoma City |
| Photographer: •AbandonedOK Team |
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Jun 7, 2009
According to City Council Resolution documents, 7.2 acres was purchased through a grant authorized by Title VII of the Housing Act of 1961 and more land was conveyed to the City from W.K.Y. Television Inc. a Delaware Corporation over time in January of 1964. The parks department sold the park (29.15 acres more or less) in the time period of...
| Location Class: •Commercial •Government |
| City: •Oklahoma City |
| Photographer: •AbandonedOK Team |
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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 Italian and...
| 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 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 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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