- City:
- Wainwright, OK
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Schools
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
- Started:
- 1941
- Completed:
- 1942
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The Works Progress Administration built the Wainwright School and Gymnasium in Wainwright. The structure is built of red native rock cut into irregular shaped rectangles. The gym to the southwest has tall windows, rounded at the top. The Historic Preservation Survey states that it was one of the last educational complexes constructed in Oklahoma.
Source notes
Oklahoma Historic Preservation Survey, Oklahoma State University, Muskogee County.
Site originally submitted by Charles Swaney on July 3, 2018.
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