Skip to content
Most Endangered Places

Most Endangered Places

Preservation Oklahoma

  • Back to Main Site
  • Endangered Home Page
  • All Endangered Places
  • Back to Main Site
  • Endangered Home Page
  • All Endangered Places

Category: AOK

Year(s) Listed: • 2023

Jewel Theatre

City/Town: • Oklahoma City

Constructed in 1931, the Jewel Theater served as one of the few safe havens for Black joy, community, and entertainment in Oklahoma City’s public realm

Continue readingJewel Theatre

Year(s) Listed: • 2022 • 2023

Bryant Center

City/Town: • Oklahoma City

Retained from our 2022 list, The Bryant Center was a hub for Oklahoma City’s most prominent Black community. Little progress has happened since last year,

Continue readingBryant Center

Year(s) Listed: • 2010 • 2011 • 2012 • 2013 • 2016 • 2023

Quanah Parker Star House

City/Town: • Cache

Few properties in Oklahoma gather as much interest and curiosity as Quanah Parker’s Star House, currently located in Cache. Concerned citizens have nominated the home

Continue readingQuanah Parker Star House

Year(s) Listed: • 2022

Tullahassee

City/Town: • Tullahassee

Tullahassee is considered the oldest of the surviving All-Black towns of Indian Territory. Tullahassee is one of more than fifty All-Black towns of Oklahoma and

Continue readingTullahassee

Year(s) Listed: • 2022

Savoy Hotel, Nowata

City/Town: • Nowata

The Savoy, constructed in 1909 on the town square, was a three-story, brick building where oil leases were signed and formal balls were held. The

Continue readingSavoy Hotel, Nowata

Year(s) Listed: • 2022

Booker T. Washington School, Stillwater

City/Town: • Stillwater

African American and Afro-Indigenous people were among the earliest settlers in Indian Territory. In the first half of the 20th century there were more than

Continue readingBooker T. Washington School, Stillwater

Year(s) Listed: • 2022

Griffin Memorial Hope Hall, Norman

City/Town: • Norman

Construction began in 1928 on Hope Hall at what was then called Central State Hospital. It was expanded and remodeled several times over the years.

Continue readingGriffin Memorial Hope Hall, Norman

Year(s) Listed: • 2022

Saddle Mountain Mission Church, Cache

City/Town: • Cache

On April 9, 1896, a thirty-one-year-old Baptist missionary from Canada named Isabel Crawford arrived at Saddle Mountain to establish a Baptist mission station. The congregation

Continue readingSaddle Mountain Mission Church, Cache

Year(s) Listed: • 2021

W.S. Kelly General Merchandise

City/Town: • Cogar

This little building, sitting at the intersection of state highways 37 and 152, has seen a lot of action since it was built in the

Continue readingW.S. Kelly General Merchandise

Year(s) Listed: • 2021

Canadian County Jail

City/Town: • El Reno

The Canadian County Jail, designed by Solomon A. Layton and built in 1906, has deteriorated to the point that there are holes in the roof.

Continue readingCanadian County Jail

Posts navigation

Older posts

About Us

 

The mission of Preservation Oklahoma is to preserve the places where Oklahoma history lives. We believe communities are enriched when we connect history to our present and future.

Contact Us


director@preservationok.org
The Henry and Anna Overholser Mansion Carriage House
405 NW 15th Street
Oklahoma City, Ok 73103
Copyright © 2025 Most Endangered Places | WEN Travel Blog by WEN Themes
Scroll Up