• City Hall - Wagoner OK
    The Wagoner City Hall was built by the WPA in 1936-37. "A single story, rectangular (40' x 79') structure, the Wagoner City Hall is constructed of rusticated and coursed native sandstone... The Wagoner City Hall is significant because it reflects the wide range of projects undertaken by the WPA and its method of operations. City halls were considered 'useful' projects, just like schools and armories. And rather than begin construction anew, in the instance of Wagoner the WPA began with an old structure and 'reconstructed' it. Put differently, the agency tore down an old building and built a new one in its...
  • Community Building - Wagoner OK
    This WPA community building is still in use: "A single-story, modified-U-shaped...structure, the Wagoner community building is constructed of cut but unrusticated native sandstone laid in rough courses with deeply incised mortar... The style of the building is similar to so-called 'park' architecture, i.e. that found in most of Oklahoma's state parks and constructed generally by the CCC."   (www.okhistory.org) The c. 1941 building is still in use as a community building today.
  • National Guard Armory (former) - Wagoner OK
    "The Wagoner Armory, also known as National Guard Armory, was built in 1938 by the Works Progress Administration in order to make jobs for unemployed workers in the area. The Oklahoma National Guard used the building since it was built, until it was abandoned along with 58 other armories in the state of Oklahoma after they were ordered to be closed in 2006 by the federal Base Realignment and Closure Commission. The Wagoner Armory, like many other armories, was contaminated with lead from bullets fired in their underground rifle ranges and from asbestos. The Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality cleaned the...
  • Wagoner County Courthouse - Wagoner OK
    "On July 12, 1938, the people voted to approve an increase in ad valorem taxation to 5 mills for the purpose of erecting a new County Courthouse with a new County Jail.  The Board of Commissioners subsequently entered into contract with an architect, Jos. I. Davis, to submit plans to the Federal Government through the Works Progress Administration of Oklahoma for the construction of the Courthouse.  By December of that year, all protesters to the building of the new Courthouse and Jail had been satisfied.  The Commissioners then began receiving bids for the various components of the Courthouse and Jail—from...