National Register of Historic Places
Oklahoma National Guard Armory
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma
The record
- Listed
- December 6, 2019
- Type
- Building
- Address
- 200 NE 23rd St., Oklahoma City
- County
- Oklahoma
- State
- Oklahoma
- Contributing resources
- 1 building
- Coordinates
- 35.49259, -97.50924
- Reference number
- 100004739
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The story
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The Oklahoma National Guard Armory is a three-story building at 200 NE 23rd St. in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, built in 1938 in the Streamlined Moderne and Art Deco styles. Architect Bryan F. Nolen designed it, and the Charles A. Dunning Construction Company built it.
Why it's listed
It was listed under criteria A and C, with state-level significance in economics, architecture and military history; its period of significance is 1938, the year the armory was completed.
Physical character
Its walls are blonde brick with native stone trim, under roofs of concrete, rolled asphalt and sheet steel. The drill hall measures 185 by 135 feet under a barrel roof of original wood decking and steel trusses, with a concrete floor, and stair towers at each corner. By 1955 the northern portion had been converted to office space, and non-original chain-link fencing and a concrete block lean-to have since been added.
Historical context
The Works Progress Administration was created in 1935, and work on this armory began March 15, 1938, with a dedication ceremony on November 11. Lieutenant Colonel Turner Roark taught a class here in 1939, and the Oklahoma Highway Patrol occupied the building from 1948; it was vacant at the time of its 2019 listing.