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The Savoy Hotel was built in 1909 as a modern elegant hotel with 62 rooms. It was built to accommodate the many new visitors, workers, and businessmen coming to the oil and gas boom town of Nowata, Oklahoma. This year, 2009, represents her 100-year anniversary. So saving this wonderful structure from complete destruction is a fitting birthday present to bestow upon this year.
An oil well drilled in Nowata struck “radium” water at a depth of 1500 feet. Many people touted the health benefits of this water and thus the Savoy hotel added “Radium Water Baths”. So on February 16, 1916, J. R. Cruff started a Radium water bathhouse at the Savoy. The bathhouse had the latest and most modern apparatus with bathing experts in charge.
The mineral baths were good at healing for rheumatism, stomach trouble, malaria, nervous trouble, skin diseases, as said by the owner J.R. CRUFF. (source: Men of Affairs and representative Institutions of OK, 1916)
In the 1940’s it was the County Hospital.
Some renovation was done in the 1990’s and the building was used for events, dinners, weddings, and even for a feature film, “Possums”, in 1998.
But the roof began leaking a few years ago and soon nature was rapidly trying to reclaim what man had built 100 years ago.
For much more information, and to learn about helping to preserve this great piece of history, visit http://www.savethesavoy.com.
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Just a side note & warning: The 2 upper floors are very unstable & not safe for exploring due to water damage. We were very cautious & didnt even get to check out the 3rd floor. Please be careful if you attemt to enter this bldg.
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I totally agree. Neat ass place, scary ass structure. I remember seeing an old SNES in there. I liked this place.
its really sad to see this building falling apart like this. I had my senior prom in this awesome building in 1999 and have some really neat pictures of the inside first floor, it was beautiful inside! They had done such a great job restoring it..only to let it go to waste. So sad!
This is totally incredible! I must see it.
We should go on a roadtrip to see it! I’d love to check it out again myself!
Picture # 19,what in the world is that??
It was a phone switchboard I believe. I think we found it in a storage area under the stairs.
I was thinkin it was an 8 track player. Kinda like a CD changer is now a days
Wow, I think you might be right. Its just such foreign technology to me haha