Dog Creek School
The Dog Creek School, near Shady Point, Oklahoma, is a one-room school built in 1936 as a Works Progress Administration project. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.[1]
Dog Creek School | |
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| Location | Southwest of Shady Point, LeFlore County, Oklahoma |
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| Coordinates | 35°4′50″N 94°51′54″W |
| Area | 2 acres (0.81 ha) |
| Built | 1936 |
| Built by | Works Progress Administration |
| MPS | WPA Public Bldgs., Recreational Facilities and Cemetery Improvements in Southeastern Oklahoma, 1935--1943 TR |
| NRHP reference No. | 88001399[1] |
| Added to NRHP | September 8, 1988 |
It is a one-story 24 by 35 feet (7.3 m × 10.7 m) built of roughly coursed sandstone, with a roof covered by tin sheets. It was built from an Oklahoma State Department of Education pattern book design.[2]
Its NRHP nomination notes:
As a WPA school building, the Dog Creek facility is significant in that it is one of very few one-room structures remaining in relative good condition. It also suggests the crude workmanship on early WPA projects. Within the community itself, it is notable architecturally in terms of type, style, materials and workmanship. Construction of it also provided work opportunities for destitute laborers who had long been on relief rolls and faced the possibility of starvation, rekindling some self respect. The building also improved the quality of instruction in the Dog Creek area, a very remote region.[2]
It was one of 48 buildings and 11 structures reviewed in a 1985 study of WPA works in southeastern Oklahoma, which led to almost all of them being listed on the National Register in 1988.[3]
References
- "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- W. David Baird (June 15, 1985). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination Continuation: Dog Creek School". National Park Service. Retrieved June 13, 2017. With two photos from 1984.
- W. David Baird (June 15, 1985). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) Public Buildings, Recreational Facilities, and Cemetery Improvements in Southeastern Oklahoma, 1935-1943 (Thematic Resources)". National Park Service. Retrieved June 12, 2017.
