Arkoma School Explained

Arkoma School
Coordinates:35.355°N -94.4333°W
Built:1937
Builder:Works Progress Administration
Architect:Okla. State Dept. of Education
Architecture:Richardsonian Romanesque(?)
Added:September 8, 1988
Area:less than one acre
Mpsub:WPA Public Bldgs., Recreational Facilities and Cemetery Improvements in Southeastern Oklahoma, 1935--1943 TR
Refnum:88001398

The Arkoma School in Arkoma in Le Flore County, Oklahoma was a Works Progress Administration-funded project completed in 1937. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

It is a four-room 74feetx42feetft (xft) building built of cut and coursed local sandstone, with a hipped roof. It was still in use as a school in 1988.

Its NRHP nomination asserts that in its design there is an allusion to Richardsonian Romanesque style, but it is a straightforward construction. Its design was taken from a pattern book of the Oklahoma State Department of Education.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: [{{NRHP url|id=88001398}} National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination Continuation: Arkoma School ]. National Park Service. 1988 . June 10, 2017. With .