Escoe Building
United States historic place
Escoe Building | |
35°44′58.32″N 95°22′8″W / 35.7495333°N 95.36889°W / 35.7495333; -95.36889 | |
| Area | less than one acre |
|---|---|
| Built | 1908 |
| Architect | W.T. Escoe |
| NRHP reference No. | 83002094[1] |
| Added to NRHP | July 14, 1983 |
The Escoe Building (also known as the Simmons Building) was a historic commercial building located at 228-230 North Second Street in Muskogee, Oklahoma.
Description and history
It was a two-story brick office building built in 1908 and demolished in 1988.
The Escoe Building was the only professional building in Muskogee's black district and housed the first black-owned bank in Oklahoma. It was also known as the Simmons Building because it housed the Simmons Royalty Co., Oklahoma's first major oil business owned by a black family.[2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 14, 1983.
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
- ^ "Escoe Building". Oklahoma Historical Society. Archived from the original on June 21, 2010. Retrieved February 8, 2008.
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National Register of Historic Places in Muskogee County, Oklahoma
- Administration Building-Post Hospital
- Cherokee National Cemetery
- Commandant's Quarters
- Dragoon Commandant's Quarters
- Fort Gibson
- Nash-Swindler House
- Officer's Quarters
- Post Adjutant's Office
- Post Blacksmith Shop
- Seawell-Ross-Isom House
- Nancy Taylor No. 1 Oil Well Site
- Bacone College Historic District
- Central Baptist Church
- Coss House
- Escoe Building
- F.B. Fite House and Servant's Quarters
- First Baptist Church
- First Methodist Episcopal Church
- Grant Foreman House
- Fort Davis
- Kendall Place Historic District
- Manhattan Building
- Manual Training High School for Negroes
- Masonic Temple
- Murphy House
- Muskogee County Courthouse
- Muskogee Depot and Freight District
- Muskogee Municipal Building
- Patterson House
- Pre-Statehood Commercial District
- Railway Exchange Building
- Robb House
- St. Philip's Episcopal Church
- Severs Hotel
- Spirit of the American Doughboy
- Surety Building
- Trumbo House
- Union Agency
- US Courthouse
- Ward Chapel AME Church
- Welch House
- Oktaha School
- Reverend L.W. Thomas Homestead
- St. Thomas Primitive Baptist Church
- W.E.B. DuBois School
- Taft City Hall
- Sheltered Shelter District
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