Driving down I-44 one’s eye can be drawn to a large tower building sporting boarded-up windows. For years I wondered what this lone structure was and why it was vacant. This was Remington Tower...
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Driving down I-44 one’s eye can be drawn to a large tower building sporting boarded-up windows. For years I wondered what this lone structure was and why it was vacant. This was Remington Tower...
The Mountain Park Jail is an intriguing one being two stories and much larger compared to the other jails featured on our site. This being such a big jail seems to be that of a county jail rather...
The small brick building sitting in front of the empty shell of a gym was built in 1931 as the Ahpeatone School. This housed students K through 12 until a grade school was built later on to separate...
The start to this church starts like this, allegedly a local by the name of J.A. Ingram wanted to correct the “moral confusion” of Earlsboro by building a new church as a gift to the town...
National Bank of Commerce Work on the National Bank of Commerce Tulsa was set to begin in the spring of 1922, the finished plans called for a ten-story building but only ended up being eight. The...
Collins Family Allotment 1906 – 1920 It’s uncommon to search this area of Osage County and not dig up some Native American connections in its early history. This land, now known as Candy...
This small cell sits in the tiny town of Addington, it would have been used back in the day when the town had a larger population as a holding cell or drunk tank. These small cells usually went...
Upon looking at the Van Sanford Apartments most wouldn’t suspect the rich history embedded within its almost 100-year-old walls. But as always history surrounds us, it surprises us and it shows...
Owned and constructed in July 1931 by Hathyel L. and Percy H. James the Jewel Theatre is the last remaining African American theatre left in Oklahoma City. Featuring buff brick it contained a...
Previously the growing community of oil workers’ children attended Wolf School in a small swayback building. With the oil town starting to boom throughout the 1920s it was evident that a modern...
In March 1905, the Commercial Club submitted a petition to the County Commissioners requesting a new county jail. A month later a resolution was passed to erect a brand new jail but the location was...
Clinton Naval Air Station After eight months of construction on the alfalfa fields just south of Foss the war project was finally complete and the Clinton Naval Air Station was activated on June 1...
The unfortunately named Squaw Drive-In Theater is located on Historic Route 66. The word is used as a slur towards indigenous people, why this name was chosen as the name is unknown but nevertheless...
As many of you may know by now, I have been on a mission for the last year and a half to document as many tiny jails across the Midwest as possible. So far, I have documented over 150, with even more...
The need for a brand new jail in Oklahoma City and Police Headquarters started being discussed in mid-1935. With a growing city in the middle of the midwest and full of outlaws and bandits, the need...
The Eagle City Gym and community building sits lonely in the small town. Constructed in 1936 with $1,170 of money appropriated by the WPA, the structure reminds me of a buff brick version of the...
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