Benjamin Franklin Smallwood House

Last updated
Benjamin Franklin Smallwood House
USA Oklahoma location map.svg
Red pog.svg
Usa edcp location map.svg
Red pog.svg
Nearest city Lehigh, Oklahoma
Coordinates 34°27′44″N96°16′33″W / 34.46222°N 96.27583°W / 34.46222; -96.27583 Coordinates: 34°27′44″N96°16′33″W / 34.46222°N 96.27583°W / 34.46222; -96.27583
Arealess than one acre
Built1875 (1875)
Built byBenjamin Smallwood
NRHP reference No. 82003676 [1]
Added to NRHPMarch 10, 1982

The Benjamin Franklin Smallwood House is a stone house located near Lehigh, Oklahoma. [2] It was the home of Choctaw leader Benjamin Franklin Smallwood. [2] The house is on the National Register of Historic Places. [3]

Contents

History

Benjamin Franklin Smallwood was an important leader of the Choctaw. [2] He was representative to the Choctaw nation from 1847 to 1887. [2] As a representative, he held the office of speaker for many years and was the leader of the National Party. [2] He was elected Principal Chief of Choctaw Nation in 1888 and served for two years as chief. [2] Because he refused to meet with United States government officials unless they came to his home, his home was where important meetings of Choctaw legislators, religious leaders, and members of the United States Congress were held. [2] The house was originally part of a 500-acre farm that included four mineral springs. [2] In 1982, the house was added to the National Register of Historic Places. It is the last surviving structure associated with Smallwood. [2]

At the time it was built, the Smallwood House was located in Atoka County, a part of the Pushmataha District of the Choctaw Nation. [4]

Architecture

The house is a two-story sandstone building measuring 50 by 50 feet (15 by 15 m). [2] The roof is gone; it was originally a gabled roof. [2] The building has sixteen windows; [2] those on the second floor measure 5 by 3 feet, and those on the first floor are 3 feet square. [2] At the time of the national register application in 1982, the walls were intact except for a cave-in on the south side above a second-story window. [2] On the north wall, there is a chimney and fireplace. [2] The house has a stone porch, which has been forced away from the rest of the house by tree roots. [2]

Related Research Articles

Cherokee National Capitol United States historic place

The Cherokee National Capitol, now the Cherokee Nation Courthouse, is a historic tribal government building in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. Completed in 1869, it served as the capitol building of the Cherokee Nation from 1869 to 1907, when Oklahoma became a state. It now serves as the site of the tribal supreme court and judicial branch. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1961 for its role in the Nation's history.

Colonel John Stuart House Historic house in South Carolina, United States

The Colonel John Stuart House is a historic house at 104-106 Tradd Street in Charleston, South Carolina. Built in 1772, four years before the American Revolution, it is the city's oldest known example of a side-hall plan house. It is nationally significant as the home of Colonel John Stuart, who was the King's Superintendent of Indian Affairs in the South. He improved relations with the Five Civilized Tribes, especially the Cherokee Nation between the Seven Years' War and the American Revolutionary War. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1973.

Benjamin Church House (Bristol, Rhode Island) Historic house in Rhode Island, United States

Benjamin Church House is a Colonial Revival house at 1014 Hope Street in Bristol, Rhode Island, U.S.A. It opened in 1909 as the "Benjamin Church Home for Aged Men" as stipulated by Benjamin Church's will. Beginning in 1934, during the Great Depression, it admitted women. The house was closed in 1968 and became a National Register of Historic Places listing in 1971. The non-profit Benjamin Church Senior Center was incorporated in June 1972 and opened on September 1, 1972. It continues to operate as a senior center.

The Conklin House, the Johnson House, and the Kee House in Chandler, Oklahoma are Colonial Revival houses from the pre-statehood era of Oklahoma that are recognized as significant by the "Territorial Homes in Chandler" MPS.

A.W. Patterson House Historic house in Oklahoma, United States

The A.W. Patterson House is a historic house in Muskogee, Oklahoma. Located at the intersection of 14th Street and West Okmulgee, it is situated at the crest of a hill near the western edge of the downtown Muskogee neighborhood. It was built in 1906, before Oklahoma achieved statehood in 1907. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

Milton Odem House United States historic place

The Milton Odem House is a small bungalow home located in Redmond, Oregon. The house was built in 1937 by Ole K. Olson for Milton Odem, a local theater owner. It is one of the best examples of residential Streamline Moderne architecture in Oregon. The Milton Odem House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

Choctaw Capitol Building United States historic place

The Choctaw Capitol Building is a historic building built in 1884 that housed the government of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma from 1884 to 1907. The building is located in Pushmataha County, Oklahoma, two miles north of Tuskahoma. The site also includes the Choctaw Nation Council House and the Old Town Cemetery of Tuskahoma.

Eighth Precinct Police Station United States historic place

The former Eighth Precinct Police Station is a building located at 4150 Grand River Avenue in the Woodbridge Historic District of Detroit, Michigan. It is the second-oldest police building in Detroit, and was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1973 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. The building now houses the Detroit Castle Lofts.

The Heritage (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) United States historic place

The Heritage, formerly known as the Journal Record Building, Law Journal Record Building, Masonic Temple and the India Temple Shrine Building, is a Neoclassical building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. It was completed in 1923 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It was damaged in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. It houses the Oklahoma City National Memorial Museum in the western 1/3 of the building and The Heritage, a class A alternative office space, in the remaining portion of the building.

Wheelock Church is a historic church building in Millerton, McCurtain County, Oklahoma. Built in 1845-6, the existing stone structure is the oldest surviving church building in the state of Oklahoma and the oldest church congregation among the Choctaw nation. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

Wonderland Trail Shelters United States historic place

The Wonderland Trail is an approximately 93-mile (150 km) hiking trail that circumnavigates Mount Rainier in Mount Rainier National Park, Washington, United States. The trail goes over many ridges of Mount Rainier for a cumulative 22,000 feet (6,700 m) of elevation gain. The trail was built in 1915.

The Hugh and Susie Goff House is a historic house located in Jerome, Idaho.

Oklahoma Presbyterian College Historic church in Oklahoma, United States

Oklahoma Presbyterian College is a historic Presbyterian school at 601 N. 16th Street in Durant, Oklahoma. The site, including two contributing buildings, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

Cherokee National Jail United States historic place

The Cherokee National Jail or Cherokee National Penitentiary was built in 1874 as part of a governmental complex for the Cherokee Nation in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. It served the Cherokee Nation until it was sold to Cherokee County, Oklahoma, which used it as a jail into the 1970s.

Canadian County Jail and Stable United States historic place

The Canadian County Jail and Stable comprises two buildings constructed at different times. The jail is a building located at 300 South Evans in El Reno, Oklahoma. It is the abandoned site of the county jail of Canadian County, and sits west of the current county jail on the same block.

The Merchants National Bank Building is a two-story, red brick building in Lehigh, Oklahoma, located at the southwest corner of Main Street and Railway Street. It was one of two banks that served Lehigh during the town's mining boom. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is historically significant because it represents the economic growth and decline of Lehigh and exemplifies Late Victorian Renaissance architecture.

Benjamin Franklin Smallwood

Benjamin Franklin Smallwood was Principal Chief of the Choctaw Republic from 1888 to 1890. From 1847 to 1890, Smallwood held public office in Choctaw Nation, except for the time he served as an officer in the Civil War.

Skullyville County Jail United States historic place

The Skullyville County Jail, located west of Panama in Le Flore County, Oklahoma, was built in 1907. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

Harris Hall United States historic place

Harris Hall is an auditorium located at 617 East Huron Street in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

Harold C. Brooks House United States historic place

The Harold C. Brooks House, also known as the Jabez S. Fitch House or the Charles T. Gorham House, is a historic home located at 310 N. Kalamazoo Avenue in Marshall, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970, with the surrounding grounds added in 1984.

References

  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 O.J. Hazlett (February 5, 1982). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Benjamin Franklin Smallwood House" (pdf). National Park Service.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help) "Accompanying 4 photos, from 1980" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places Inventory.
  3. State Historic Preservation Office: Oklahoma Historical Society.Oklahoma's National Register Handbook. April 1, 2015. Accessed July 2, 2015.
  4. Morris, John W. Historical Atlas of Oklahoma (Norman: University of Oklahoma, 1986), plate 38.