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Enid Building Pictures
Pictures of Buildings in Enid, Oklahoma
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PICTURES OF SOME OF ENIDS BUILDINGS
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New Oakwood Country Club to open in MaY 2010 |
Painting of "downtown Enid" logo on building |
New Business & Industry Services Building with Autry Vo Tech |
New Fire station ('08) on North Grand |
Cimarron Montessori School |
New (08) SPCA, 1116 Overland Trail |
Chisholm Trail Expo Center holding everything from graduations,
concerts, exhibits, sports events & more |
Some of Enid's Landmarks, the giant grain elevators that dot the towns skyline. They are some of the largest in the world |
Railroad Museum in old freight depot |
Enid School Board Building |
1924 Garfield County Masonic Temple Building 301 W. Broadway
Now Home to the Enid Symphony Orchestra. |
Old Jackson School, 415 E. Illiniois, now a community care center
on the National Register of Historic Places
Jackson School, built in 1936, is located in Enid, Garfield County, Oklahoma and listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1989. It is one of three Mission/Spanish Colonial buildings in Enid. The other two are the 1928 Rock Island Depot, also listed on the register, and the Ehly house, constructed in 1929 for local J.C. Penney's manager, Gus Ehly. The building is constructed using buff brick and cast stone decorative molding. It has two arched entry ways with red tile shed roofs, a Greek cross in the upper middle section, and cement staircases. The building encompasses Block 16 of Enid's Southern Heights second addition. Its architect Roy Shaw also designed several other Enid school buildings including Enid High School, Adams, Garfield, Roosevelt, and Longfellow. Jackson school served as an all-white school until Enid's schools integrated in 1959. From 1967 to 1969, Jackson and neighboring George Washington Carver, formerly an all black school, split grades 1-3 and 4-6, respectively, between the two schools, until both were closed in 1969.
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National Guard Armory, 600 E. Elm,
on the National Register of Historic Places. |
Garfield County Courthouse Downtown Enid
on the National Register of Historic Places. |
Garfield Co. Detention Center (Jail) South 10th past Garriott |
Newly remodeled and enlarged YWCA |
Old Convention Hall - Mark Price Arena - Home to Enid Basketball |
Cherokee Strip Conference Center (NW View). One half of the Center utilizes a turn of the century building. |
Cherokee Strip Conference Center (SE View) |
Leonardo's Discovery Warehouse
(a hands on arts and science museum) soon to be
expanding into the building to the right (old Gaslight Theatre)
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David Allen Ballpark Home to Enid Baseball |
Old Masonic Temple Building - Independence and Maine |
Old Enid Depot 700 block N Washington
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Little Red School House from 1800s which
is now part of Glenwood Elementary School |
The Rock Island Depot is located in Enid, Garfield County, Oklahoma and listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1979. The Rock Island Railway built rail lines through Oklahoma Territory prior to the Land Run of 1893. Skeleton Station was constructed in 1889. That same year, M.A. Low, upon a visit to the station, renamed the location Enid. When the Department of Interior moved the town site, this area became known as North Enid or Northington. During the run, the Rock Island transported settlers into the Cherokee Outlet, stopping only at this location. Rock Island refused to stop at the new town site, and the Enid-Pond Creek Railroad War continued for a full year. A new depot was built in 1903. The current depot was constructed in 1928.
Old Enid Rock Island Depot (being restored) (in the National Register of historic places) The Rock Island Railroad built the Spanish-style depot located at Owen K Garriott and 2nd st.. This was a passenger and freight depot that was used for many years. As you can see it was a large depot, during years of segregation, it had waiting rooms, rest rooms and drinking fountains, for both whites and colored. A snack bar sold cold drinks, candy and newspapers and magazines. There used to be a freight section of the building that has long ago been torn down. From this building many Enid residents saw their loved ones off to the war in the 40's and welcomed them back. Train watchers and just interested people used to go to the depot just to watch the trains come in and leave. Passenger train service to Enid ended on 29 Sep 1966.
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First Presbyterian Church
"A "venture of faith" it has been called and a venture of faith it was for an intrepid Presbyterian Sunday School missionary to hold an outdoor service in a raw, unsettled, new land, … It was Sunday, September 17, 1893, the day after the tumultuous Cherokee Strip Run that Rev. G. V. Albertson stood in his buggy to preach and bring Presbyterianism to Enid, a tent city with a population of 5,000 to 10,000 people. The following Sunday the Rev. H. P. Wilson, a Presbyterian home missionary who had made the Run and staked a claim southeast of Enid, preached to the little flock; and he continued to do so each Sunday through that first fall and winter, meeting in whatever buildings and halls were made available to him."1
Formal organization of First Presbyterian Church of Enid, Presbytery of Cimarron, Synod of Indian Territory was held on January 28, 1894 with twenty-one charter members. The congregation has grown from those original twenty-one hardy souls to a present day total of 690. Eleven pastors and five associate pastors have ministered to the Presbyterians of Enid including those first two intrepid pioneer missionaries of the Land Rush days. Enid has grown from that tent city that sprang up overnight into a thriving county seat of about 50,000 people. The hub of Northwest and North Central Oklahoma, Enid is the largest retail trade center in the area. With oil and agriculture as the historical bases of its economy, Enid also is the home of Vance Air Force Base, a number of diversified industries and medical facilities (including two ultra-modern hospitals) that are rated among the finest in the state. Our congregation reflects the area’s rich, colorful past; it’s vibrant,progressive present; and its exciting, promising future.
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