| City/Town: • Oklahoma City |
| Location Class: • Commercial |
| Built: • 1898 | Abandoned: • 1944 |
| Historic Designation: • National Register of Historic Places |
| Status: • Demolished |
| Photojournalist: • Sara Yarbrough |
At the time of its operation, the Bourne
Dairy land covered most of the land in the area, including the Cowboy Museum and the Oklahoma City Zoo. Family Dollar practically share’s it’s back wall with it. It’s one of those places you could drive by every single day and never see it. Unfortunately as you can see, it’s in very poor condition. In one of the pics you can see where the milking pit has been filled in with concrete and debris. The place is a minefield with various debris all over the place, and is also on the National Register of historic places.
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Is it illegal to go to abandon places lol
So the dairy is gone. Completely bulldozed down. Grabbed a brick and sighed. What a shame.
I went there recently myself! It's a pretty cool place, you beat me to a post. Kudos, jerk! Haha, just kidding. When I was there i smelled fresh paint.. I think it had been recently tagged. Bastards.
went by there today, the place is still standing, but by the main entrance there was definitely some sort of fire, causing damage to most of it. Still a cool place to check out, easy access as well.
Did you take any pics of the fire damage? I'd like to see it if you or anyone else can get some pics. One of the original Bourne family members still lives in the OKC area. I'm sure he'd like to know about the damage.
I did! I'll post them in the forum for now!
Posted a couple of photos in the forum
We live very close to this building and I believe our 5 acres were originally part of this farm. We have a small red stone barn on our property that is built in a very similar style around the same time. Our house was built in 1952 a few years after the Bourne dairy property was broken up and sold off. Luckily our barn was preserved and left original but maintained.
The Bourne farm was around 1000 acres which included the land where the Cowboy museum is, the movie theatre and the neighborhood north of I-44 which at the time was Bourne estates. When old 'Whit' Bourne plotted that land for the neighborhood, each lot was one acre in size because he believed people should be allowed to own some decent size of land if they couldn't afford a farm. I don't know if it's still that way or not. I think there was or still is a small cliff ledge of the red masonry stone behind the movie theatre. That… Read more »
Thanks a lot a good deal for giving this specific with all of people you will know very well what you might be discussing! Book marked. Be sure to as well speak with this site =). We could employ a link exchange settlement among us
Have you contacted the descendant of the property owner?: Still lives in OKC in the Gatewood area. He would love to tell you more about the place. His name is Earl Bourne. He worked there in his younger days with his dad and grandfather who founded the dairy. He's around 75 now. His grandfather was in the Oklahoma Land Run in 1889 and settled a parcel of land just east of the Federal building memorial and began the dairy there. Later in 1895 he moved to this location you mention. There was a much bigger cattle barn just west of… Read more »
When the McDonalds was built right next to the dairy, there was an old red rock silo that was part of the structures there, that they tore down during the sight prep, but they weren't supposed to. Folks were majorly ticked over that.
Behind this property to the West is the old drive in theatre. You can see the remnants of the main ticket booth. I believe it was called the Cinema 66.
Too cool, I just looked this up because I have an oil painting from 1959 of the dairy barn that my grandmother did. Lovely! I'll try to figure out how to post a photo of it!
I'm Looking for the school house that my grandmother has an oil painting of. A long time ago she had gone on a anniversary of The Land Run and they actually retraced the run in a covered wagon lol. The Bourne's are definitely proud of the heritage! I'm Hoping to find the school house she has:)
Hey guys, I love this site! It is so amazing to learn about the states history like this and to see some of these places that were huge parts of Oklahoma in the past. I love pic number 30 in this one, I work at a Sherwin-Williams and its got some lacquer thinner that we sell in the pic, lol.
God I love this site… great work Sara
Hah, fair enough! I know the feeling, ahah it's a scary one.
Kiss it Billy. I was there weeks ago. Lol. I've got some other cool stuff I'm about to add. I didn't smell anything but dust when I was there. I just knew there was some homeless person lurking int he shadows waiting to attack though lol.
I went there recently myself! It's a pretty cool place, you beat me to a post. Kudos, jerk! Haha, just kidding. When I was there i smelled fresh paint.. I think it had been recently tagged. Bastards.