Tucker School (Spiro, Oklahoma)

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Tucker School
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LocationOff U.S. Route 59, near Spiro, Oklahoma
Coordinates 35°17′56″N94°44′5″W / 35.29889°N 94.73472°W / 35.29889; -94.73472
Area1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built1937
Built by Works Progress Administration
ArchitectOkla. State Dept. of Education
MPS WPA Public Bldgs., Recreational Facilities and Cemetery Improvements in Southeastern Oklahoma, 1935--1943 TR
NRHP reference No. 88001407 [1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 8, 1988

The Tucker School was a three-room schoolhouse built in 1937 as a Works Progress Administration project in a rural area outside of Spiro in LeFlore County, Oklahoma. [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. [1]

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It is a one-story L-shaped stone building, with main part 69 by 28 feet (21.0 m × 8.5 m) and an 11 by 30 feet (3.4 m × 9.1 m) extension. It has a stepped gable roof with intersecting gables. Its front entrance is behind an arch. Its design was from an Oklahoma State Department of Education pattern book. Its NRHP nomination notes that it

is an excellent example of a three room structure that has been preserved without alteration over the years. Within the rural community of which it is a part, the building is unique architecturally in terms of type, style, scale, materials and workmanship. That construction of it also provided work for laborers long on relief rolls, giving them economic security and self esteem, makes it especially significant, as too does the fact that the building provided an impetus for modern education in a rather remote and isolated area. [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. 1 2 W. David Baird (June 15, 1985). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Tucker School". National Park Service . Retrieved June 18, 2017. With two photos from 1984.
  3. W. David Baird (June 15, 1985). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: WPA Public Bldgs., Recreational Facilities and Cemetery Improvements in Southeastern Oklahoma, 1935-1943 Thematic Resources". National Park Service . Retrieved June 18, 2017.