Built 1912 Opened 1912 Added to NRHP 11 August 1983 | NRHP Reference # 83002096 Architectural style Chicago school | |
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Location 2nd and Court Sts., Muskogee, Oklahoma MPS Pre-Depression Muskogee Skyscrapers TR Similar Manhattan Building, Severs Hotel, Surety Building, Fort Gibson National Cemetery, Five Civilized Tribes Mu | ||
The Railroad Exchange Building in Muskogee, Oklahoma is one of five skyscraper buildings, ranging from five to ten stories tall, built in 1910-1912 and included in the Pre-Depression Muskogee Skyscrapers Thematic Resources study. The others are:
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This building is located at the corner of Second and Court Streets in downtown Muskogee.
Architecture
This building shares certain characteristics with the others listed above. Its architecture represents the Chicago School of architectural design:
Notable tenants
The 8-story Railroad Exchange Building was built in 1912 to house railway company offices. Later, it was used for offices of Muskogee County, Oklahoma. By February 1983, when the application for listing on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) was submitted, it was owned by the State of Oklahoma, which used it as an office building. It also housed Connors State College before the school moved to Northeastern State University’s Muskogee campus on Shawnee Bypass. A news article in 2012 indicated that the building had been vacated in December 2011.
Status
Plans to renovate this historic building for another purpose have been put on indefinite hold in 2016, because the state has discontinued making such grants for such renovations due to its budget shortfall.