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Class: School

Year(s) Listed: • 2012

Lincoln Colored School

City/Town: • Fairfax

This one-room school house was built in 1929 to serve the African American population of Fairfax, in Osage County. Separate schools like this were prescribed

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Year(s) Listed: • 2012

Fine Arts Building

City/Town: • Alva

While visiting Alva this week, we had the opportunity to tour NWOSU’s campus. Featured on our 2012 Most Endangered Places list, Science Hall/Fall Arts Building/Ryerson

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Year(s) Listed: • 2010 • 2011

Douglass High School/Page Woodson Center

City/Town: • Oklahoma City

The first African American educational institution in Oklahoma City, Douglass High School occupied several locales before moving into the old Lowell School, where numerous community

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Year(s) Listed: • 2010

Fairview #67 School

City/Town: • Roosevelt

Fairview #67 School, located in Roosevelt, was built in 1903 for pioneer children in pre-statehood Oklahoma. The school featured a uniquely sophisticated educational curriculum and

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Year(s) Listed: • 2010

Hoyt School

City/Town: • Hoyt

Hoyt School in Hoyt was built between 1934 and 1940. This four room schoolhouse worked double duty. After closing its doors as a place of

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Year(s) Listed: • 1993 • 1994 • 1995 • 1996 • 2005 • 2006 • 2007

Wheelock Academy

City/Town: • Millerton

Wheelock Academy was founded in 1832, shortly after the forced migration known as the Trail of Tears. Alfred and Harriet Wright, New England missionaries, made

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Year(s) Listed: • 2007

Four Blackwell Elementary Schools

City/Town: • Blackwell

The four Blackwell Elementary Schools of Huston, Washington, Parkside and Northside were the first project of the renowned architectural firm of Caudill, Rowlett and Scott.

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Year(s) Listed: • 2006 • 2007

Pawnee Indian School

City/Town: • Pawnee

The Pawnee Indian Boarding School was one of the many federally funded boarding schools built for the purpose of assimilating Indian children into the mainstream

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Year(s) Listed: • 2006

Franklin Hall

City/Town: • Goodwell

The oldest building on the Oklahoma Panhandle State Univeristy campus, this dormitory was built by area residents as a community project. Franklin Hall lacks the

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Year(s) Listed: • 1998 • 1999 • 2004 • 2005

Rosenwald Hall

City/Town: • Lima

Started in 1913 by Julius Rosenwald. President of Sears Roebuck and Company, the Rosenwald Fund provided matching grants for the construction of 5300 schools for

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