National Register Record for OKMULGEE DOWNTOWN HISTORIC DISTRICT

Historic Name: OKMULGEE DOWNTOWN HISTORIC DISTRICT
Current Name: None
Address: ROUGHLY BOUNDED BY 4TH, 8TH, OKMULGEE, AND FRISCO
City: OKMULGEE            County: OKMULGEE
Section: None           Township: None           Range: None          
Description of significance: A RELATIVELY SMALL OKLAHOMA TOWN TODAY, OKMULGEE HAS HAD A RICH AND VARIED HISTORY. THE BUILDINGS THAT COMPRISE THE DOWNTOWN HISTORIC DISTRICT ARE REFLECTIVE OF ITS PAST, AND ILLUSTRATE THE DIFFERENT CULTURAL GROUPS AND ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES THAT HELPED THIS COMMUNITY TO FLOURISH IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. THE DISTRICT IS ROUGHLY BOUNDED BY 4TH STREET, 8TH STREET, OKMULGEE, AND FRISCO AND INCLUDES A COLLECTION OF 197 COMMERCIAL AND CIVIC BUILDINGS CONSTRUCTED BETWEEN THE LATE 1800S AND THE LATE 1920S. THE DISTRICT INCLUDES THE CREEK NATIONAL CAPITOL, A NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK. NOTABLE CONTRIBUTING PROPERTIES INCLUDE THE COOK/ORPHEUM THEATRE, A 1921 SPANISH BAROQUE REVIVAL STYLE MOVIE PALACE ON WEST 7TH STREET, AND THE FIVE STORY PETROLEUM BUILDING LOCATED AT 408 W 6TH, A COMMERCIAL STYLE FIVE-STORY BRICK BUILDING WITH A LIMESTONE WATERTABLE. LISTED IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER 11/16/1992.

Type: DISTRICT
Historic Function: COMMERCE/TRADE: BUSINESS, PROFESSIONAL, FINANCIAL INSTITUTION, CAPITOL, CITY HALL, COURTHOUSE
Current Function: COMMERCE/TRACE: BUSINESS, PROFESSIONAL, FINANCIAL INSTITUTION; GOVERNMENT: CITY HALL, COURTHOUSE; RECREATION AND CULTURE: MUSEUM
Area of Significance 1: COMMERCE
Area of Significance 2: ARCHITECTURE; ETHNIC HERITAGE/BLACK; ETHNIC HERITAGE/NATIVE AMERICAN; GOVERNMENT; TRANSPORTATION
Architectural Style: COMMERCIAL STYLE; ITALIANATE; ROMANESQUE
Architect: SENTER, LEON B
Year Built: 1878-1932            Original Site: YES
Condition: FAIR
Restricted: N
Documentation Source: SANBORN INSURANCE MAPS: 1894, 1896, 1898, 1903, 1907, 1911, 1916, 1920, 1924
Date Prepared: OCTOBER 1989