Railway Exchange Building (Muskogee, Oklahoma)

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Railroad Exchange Building
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Location201 Court St.,
Muskogee, Oklahoma
Coordinates 35°44′58.92″N95°22′10.41″W / 35.7497000°N 95.3695583°W / 35.7497000; -95.3695583 Coordinates: 35°44′58.92″N95°22′10.41″W / 35.7497000°N 95.3695583°W / 35.7497000; -95.3695583
Architectural styleChicago, Other
MPS Pre-Depression Muskogee Skyscrapers TR
NRHP reference # 83002096 [1]
Added to NRHPAugust 11, 1983

The Railway Exchange Building in Muskogee, Oklahoma is one of five skyscraper buildings, ranging from five to ten stories tall, built before 1912 and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Pre-Depression Muskogee Skyscrapers Thematic Resources study. [2] The others are:

Muskogee, Oklahoma City in Oklahoma, United States

Muskogee is a city in and the county seat of Muskogee County, Oklahoma, United States. Home to Bacone College, it lies approximately 48 miles southeast of Tulsa. The population of the city was 39,223 as of the 2010 census, a 2.4 percent increase from 38,310 at the 2000 census, making it the eleventh-largest city in Oklahoma.

National Register of Historic Places federal list of historic sites in the United States

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance. A property listed in the National Register, or located within a National Register Historic District, may qualify for tax incentives derived from the total value of expenses incurred preserving the property.

Contents

The Baltimore Hotel in Muskogee, Oklahoma is one of five skyscraper buildings, ranging from five to ten stories tall, built in 1910-1912 and included in the Pre-Depression Muskogee Skyscrapers Thematic Resources study. The others are:

Severs Hotel (Muskogee, Oklahoma)

The Severs Hotel in Muskogee, Oklahoma is one of five skyscraper buildings, ranging from five to ten stories tall, built in 1910-1912 and included in the Pre-Depression Muskogee Skyscrapers Thematic Resources study. The others are:

Surety Building (Muskogee, Oklahoma) building in Oklahoma, United States

The Surety Building in Muskogee, Oklahoma is an eight story skyscraper built for the Southern Surety Company in 1910.

This building is located at the corner of Second and Court Streets in downtown Muskogee.

Architecture

This building shares certain characteristics with the others listed above. Its architecture represents the Chicago School of architectural design:

Chicago's architecture is famous throughout the world and one style is referred to as the Chicago School. Much of its early work is also known as Commercial style. In the history of architecture, the first Chicago School was a school of architects active in Chicago at the turn of the 20th century. They were among the first to promote the new technologies of steel-frame construction in commercial buildings, and developed a spatial aesthetic which co-evolved with, and then came to influence, parallel developments in European Modernism. A "Second Chicago School" with a modernist aesthetic emerged in the 1940s through 1970s, which pioneered new building technologies and structural systems such as the tube-frame structure.

Notable tenants

The 8-story Railway Exchange Building was built to house railway company offices. Later, it was used for offices of Muskogee County, Oklahoma. By February 1983, when the application for listing on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) was submitted, it was owned by the State of Oklahoma, which used it as an office building. It also housed Connors State College before the school moved to Northeastern State University’s Muskogee campus on Shawnee Bypass. A news article in 2012 indicated that the building had been vacated in December 2011. [3]

Muskogee County, Oklahoma County in the United States

Muskogee County is a county located in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of the 2010 census, the population was 70,990. The county seat is Muskogee. The county and city were named for the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. The official spelling of the name was changed to Muskogee by the post office in 1900.

Connors State College is a public college located in Warner and Muskogee, Oklahoma.

Northeastern State University university in Oklahoma, United States

Northeastern State University (NSU) is a public university with its main campus in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. The university also has two other campuses in Muskogee and Broken Arrow as well as online. Northeastern is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of Oklahoma as well as one of the oldest institutions of higher learning west of the Mississippi River. Tahlequah is home to the capital of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and about 25 percent of the students at NSU identify themselves as American Indian. The university has many courses focused on Native American linguistics, and offers Cherokee language Education as a major. Cherokee can be studied as a second language, and some classes are taught in Cherokee for first language speakers as well.

Status

Plans to renovate this historic building for another purpose have been put on indefinite hold in 2016, because the state has discontinued making such grants for such renovations due to its budget shortfall.

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References

  1. National Park Service (2007-01-23). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service.
  2. 1 2 Claudia Craig (February 1983). "National Register of Historic Places Multiple Property Submission: Pre-Depression Muskogee Skyscrapers Thematic Resources" (pdf). National Park Service. Retrieved 2008-02-12.
  3. Spaulding, Cathy. "9 historic buildings to be subjects of tour." Muskogee Phoenix. May 4, 2012. Accessed February 8, 2017.