Aug 31, 2009
St. George church was started by a group of Greek Orthodox brothers shortly after statehood. By 1921 they had raised enough funds to build a church at the corner of NW 8th and western. During this period there was great growth among the congregation. They had their traditional greek festivals which were open to the public during and lent and led many community...
| Location Class: •Church |
| City: •Oklahoma City |
| Photographer: •AbandonedOK Team •Billy! |
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Aug 21, 2009
Sunset elementary school was built in early 1960 and opened to enrollment in the summer of 1960. It was constructed to serve the overcrowded Ridgeview elementary in the east side of the Village. It is 19,000 square feet and has about 9 acres surrounding it. The OKCPS declared it surpuls in 1984 because of low enrollment. The City of the Village was given the...
| Location Class: •School |
| City: •Oklahoma City |
| Photographer: •AbandonedOK Team |
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Aug 21, 2009
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...
| Location Class: •School |
| City: •Spencer |
| Photographer: •AbandonedOK Team |
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Aug 17, 2009
Jefforson Davis School was opened for enrollment in August of 1931. It had a long and succesful run serving the south part of the city immediately south of Capitol Hill. Notably it had several oil wells on the property and one that hit a gusher causing it to splatter the school with oklahoma gold. It closed in the early 1980′s, because of lack of...
| Location Class: •School |
| City: •Oklahoma City |
| Photographer: •AbandonedOK Team |
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Aug 16, 2009
Nu-way Cleaners was constructed around 1928 and stayed at it’s location during the entire life of the business. Extensive renovations were completed during it’s life, mostly during the 1930′s, as noted by the Art Deco architecture and details present still to this day.
Nu-way closed in the early 1990′s due to lack of business in the ever...
| Location Class: •Commercial |
| City: •Oklahoma City |
| Photographer: •AbandonedOK Team |
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Aug 15, 2009
Thomas A Edison school was built in the early 1950′s. There isn’t much notable to mention about this place. It is a standard Oklahoma City public school design of this time period. Large classrooms with sloping ceilings that open to shared courtyards. Very narrow hallways connect the classroms to central areas that inculde the restrooms, offices and...
| Location Class: •School |
| City: •Oklahoma City |
| Photographer: •AbandonedOK Team |
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Aug 12, 2009
| Location Class: •Commercial |
| City: •Bridgeport•Geary•Hydro |
| Photographer: •AbandonedOK Team |
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Aug 6, 2009
Some Personal accounts of people living in Earlsboro taken from Ghosts Of America.
I live in Earlsboro and YES it is very creepy. The house i live in sits on a burned down hotel and i often find marbles and other burned toys of kids that died in the hotel. It is very eerie and there is a field outside my house and its scary as well. – A fellow resident Of...
| Location Class: •Ghost Town |
| City: •Earlsboro |
| Photographer: •AbandonedOK Team |
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Aug 2, 2009
St. Vincent’s Home was operated by the Brothers of Mercy and was built in 1945. The nursing order of Catholic brothers moved to the present location and built the ‘old’ section of the building in 1953. The addition was built using a grant from Hill-Burton. St. Vincent’s takes male patients only. In 1957, patients ranged from a 7 year old...
| Location Class: •Residential •Church •Hospital |
| City: •Oklahoma City |
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Aug 1, 2009
The Bryant Center opened in the northeast side of Oklahoma City in September of 1960. It featured a bowling alley, dance center, a restaurant and a private supper club. Bryant Center was the epicenter of life for the long suppressed “negro” section of town and as quoted by the Oklahoman, featured “activites for both whites and negros”....
| Location Class: •Commercial |
| City: •Oklahoma City |
| Photographer: •AbandonedOK Team |
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Jul 29, 2009
Located in Oklahoma City’s “church row” The center for Design Arts began it’s life as the First Church of Christ Scientists. It was constructed in phases between 1914 and 1918.It has been abandoned for close to two decades. The building itself is constructed in a Classical Revival design featuring four greek columns facing Robinson, with...
| Location Class: •Commercial •Church |
| City: •Oklahoma City |
| Photographer: •AbandonedOK Team |
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Jul 29, 2009
Tulsa Speedway is a well known track in Oklahoma getting it’s roots at near what’s now Fair Meadows horse track. The first track was built at what is now the parking lot for the Fair Meadows simulcast center in the 1930′s. It was origionally built as a 1/2 mile track but was later shortened to a 3/8 mile track. Both configurations had a 1/5...
| Location Class: •Commercial |
| City: •Tulsa |
| Photographer: •Psychosaw13 |
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Jul 24, 2009
Meridian received its name from the Indian Meridian on which it is located. This line is used as the main street and also separates the town into two townships. The west half being in Bear Creek Township, and the east half in South Cimmarron Township.
In 1902 the townsite was laid out by the Meridian Right-of-Way and Townsite company, and very soon many homes...
| Location Class: •Ghost Town |
| City: •Meridian |
| Photographer: •AbandonedOK Team |
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Jul 18, 2009
Sunset Country Club had been a fixture of Bartlesville for over 70 years, described by those who were familiar with it as having a laid back, family golfing and recreational atmosphere…
“It was my course,” said longtime Sunset golfer Brian Saltzman. “You felt like you were at home out there. You knew everybody.”
That friendly atmosphere was what...
| Location Class: •Commercial |
| City: •Bartlesville |
| Photographer: •Fiend •Psychosaw13 |
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Jul 17, 2009
Riley was closed in June 1988, when the building was 70 years old. Most of its students were sent to Mark Twain Elementary School, 541 S. 43rd West Ave., or to Chouteau Elementary School, 575 N. 39th West Ave.
A task force had proposed the closing of Riley and several other schools after Tulsa Public Schools’ enrollment fell from approximately 80,000...
| Location Class: •School |
| City: •Sand Springs |
| Photographer: •Fiend |
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