Pond Creek Masonic Lodge No. 125

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Pond Creek Masonic Lodge No. 125
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Location126 Broadway Avenue
Pond Creek, Oklahoma
Coordinates 36°40′10″N97°47′53″W / 36.66944°N 97.79806°W / 36.66944; -97.79806
Built1953
NRHP reference No. 10000622 [1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 3, 2010

The Pond Creek Masonic Lodge #125 is a National Register of Historic Places-listed building in Pond Creek, Grant County, Oklahoma. According to its NRHP listing, it is an exceptional example of modern architecture in a town whose architecture is otherwise traditional. [2] Built in 1953, the architect was Dow Gumerson, [3] who also designed the 1959 federal courthouse for the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma in Oklahoma City. [4]

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References

  1. "National Register of Historic Places Listings". National Park Service. September 10, 2010. Retrieved November 14, 2014.
  2. "National Register Properties in Oklahoma: Pond Creek Masonic Lodge #125.
  3. National Register of Historic Places Registration Form for Pond Creek Masonic Lodge #125.
  4. Barbara Snow Gilbert, "An Architectural Icon: The Oklahoma Western District’s Federal Courthouse" Archived 2007-09-23 at the Wayback Machine , Oklahoma Bar Journal, vol. 78, no. 2 (January 13, 2007), pp. 151-158.