Jim Thorpe Stadium Home of the Shawnee Wolves
Description
Between 1936 and 1939 the Federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) built the Jim Thorpe Stadium Complex at Shawnee High School in Shawnee, Oklahoma. In 2010 Shawnee voters approved a $3 million bond issue in order to renovate part of the complex. As a result the WPA-constructed rock wall and a sandstone clubhouse that had been built later were demolished.
Hamquilters Waymarking webpage for the Jim Thorpe Stadium describes it in the following way:
“…This stadium…is built with steel reinforced concrete and brick. It stands 24 tiers on the field side. All of the stadium windows have been covered with wood. The lower windows have brick sills, and the upper windows have brick sills and concrete lintels. The brick has been painted a cream color.”
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Jim Thorpe Stadium Complex
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Jim Thorpe Stadium
Source notes
Waymarking.com: Jim Thorpe Stadium/Clubhouse - Shawnee, OK The Shawnee News-Star: Construction Bid Awarded by Josh Burton (March 3, 2010) Oklahoma Historic Preservation Survey: Oklahoma Landmarks Inventory Nomination Shawnee High School Wolves
Project originally submitted by Hamquilter on August 11, 2017.
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