National Register Record for JAMES E REYNOLDS HOUSE

Historic Name: JAMES E REYNOLDS HOUSE
Current Name: REYNOLDS CASTLE
Address: COURT STREET BETWEEN EAST FIRST STREET AND 268TH STREET
City: CAMERON VICINITY            County: LEFLORE
Section: None           Township: None           Range: None          
Description of significance: THE JAMES REYNOLDS HOUSE IS A GOTHIC REVIVAL STYLE HOME BUILT AROUND 1890. REYNOLDS WAS A CONFEDERATE SOLDIER WHO MARRIED INTO THE CHOCTAW NATION. THIS HOME WAS BUILT ON LAND OBTAINED BY HIS WIFE. MR REYNOLDS HAD BEEN FASCINATED WITH CASTLES FROM AN EARLY AGE AND DETERMINED TO BUILD HIS OWN IN OKLAHOMA. HIS 10-ROOM CASTLE HAS TWO FEET THICK WALLS, ACCENTED BY ARCHES AND STONE TOWERS, AND IS EXTREMELY RARE FOR THE AREA AND FOR THE STATE. LISTED IN NATIONAL REGISTER 4/13/1977.

Type: BUILDING
Historic Function: DOMESTIC: SINGLE DWELLING
Current Function: DOMESTIC: SINGLE DWELLING
Area of Significance 1: ARCHITECTURE
Area of Significance 2: COMMERCE
Architectural Style: GOTHIC REVIVAL
Architect: REYNOLDS, JAMES - ARCHITECT
Year Built: 1890            Original Site: YES
Condition: FAIR
Restricted: N
Documentation Source: NANCE, ROSA AYLEENE, "CAPTAIN JAMES E REYNOLDS" THE CHRONICLES OF OKLAHOMA VOL XXXII (1954); FREY, PHIL, "A CASTLE OF THEIR OWN" ORBIT MAGAZINE, OKLAHOMA CITY, JULY 7 1974
Date Prepared: MARCH 1976