Property Name:FORT SILL INDIAN SCHOOL
Resource Name:No Data
Address: No Data
City: LAWTON
Vicinity: V
County: Comanche
Lot: No Data
Block: No Data
Plate Name: No Data
Section: 20
Township: 2N
Range: 11W
Restype: Building
Historic Function: School
Current Function: Vacant/Not In Use
Area of Significance 1: Historic - Aboriginal
Area of Significance 2: Architecture
Description of Significance: WITH BUT A SINGLE BREAK, FORT SILL INDIAN SCHOOL HAS SERVED THE PLAINS INDIAN TRIBES (PRIMARILY) FOR OVER A CENTURY. IT WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1871, ONLY TWO YEARS AFTER FORT SILL. CLOSED THROUGH THE 1880S, IT WAS REOPENED IN 1891. IT IS ALSO EVIDENCE OF A
Document Source: KENT RUTH, ET AL, "OKLAHOMA: A GUIDE TO THE SOONER STATE", UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS, 1956, P. 312; MURIEL H. WRIGHT, "A GUIDE TO THE INDIAN TRIBES OF OKLAHOMA", UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS, 1951, P.22
Name Preparer: KENT RUTH
Survey Provider: YES
Project Name: OKLAHOMA COMPREHENSIVE SURVEY
Date Prepared: MAY 1973
Photograph: Yes
Year: 1973
Arch build: No Data
Year Built: 1871
Original Site: No
Date Moved: No Data
From Where: No Data
Accessible: Yes
Arch Style: 51
Other Arch Style: None
Foundation Material: Uncollected
Roof Type: Hipped
Roof Material: Uncollected
Wall material 1: Stone
Wall material 2: No Data
Window Type: 99 UNCOLLECTED
Window Material: Uncollected
Door Type: 99 UNCOLLECTED
Door Material: Uncollected
External Features: No Data
Internal Features: No Data
Des Detail: No Data
Condition: Excellent (perfectly maintained)
Description of Resource: None
Comments: None
Placement: None
Listed on National Registry?: No Data
National Register Entry: No Data
Continuation: None
Date Updated: 2014-09-10 11:57:57.000
Latitude: 34.60357
Long: -98.39593
UTM Zone: Easting: None
Northing: None
Year Closed: None
