The Tucker School was a three-room schoolhouse built in 1937 as a

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project in a

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area outside of Spiro in

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. It was listed on the

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in 1988. It is a one-story L-shaped stone building, with main part and an extension. It has a stepped gable roof with intersecting gables. Its front entrance is behind an arch. Its design was from an Oklahoma State Department of Education

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. Its NRHP nomination notes that it

is an excellent example of a three room structure that has been preserved without alteration over the years. Within the rural community of which it is a part, the building is unique architecturally in terms of type, style, scale, materials and workmanship. That construction of it also provided work for laborers long on relief rolls, giving them economic security and self esteem, makes it especially significant, as too does the fact that the building provided an impetus for modern education in a rather remote and isolated area. With .

Gallery

File:Tucker School (Spiro, OK) 2 of 3.jpg, Stone entrance monument (left) File:Tucker School (Spiro, OK) 3 of 3.jpg, Stone entrance monument (right)

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* National Register of Historic Places in Le Flore County, Oklahoma School buildings completed in 1937 LeFlore County, Oklahoma School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Oklahoma {{Oklahoma-NRHP-stub