Warden's House (McAlester, Oklahoma)
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The Warden's House at Penitentiary Blvd and West St. in
McAlester, Oklahoma McAlester is the county seat of Pittsburg County, Oklahoma, Pittsburg County, Oklahoma. The population was 18,363 at the time of the 2010 census, a 3.4 percent increase from 17,783 at the 2000 census,Shuller, Thurman"McAlester" profile ''Encyclop ...
was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
in 2005. It was designed by architect
P.H. Weathers Patrick Henry Weathers (born 1870), commonly known as P.H. Weathers, was an American architect of Jackson, Mississippi. He was born in Alabama. He studied architecture under architect Eugene T. Heiner of Houston, Texas. By 1886 he had done work ...
. It has also been known as Oklahoma State Penitentiary Warden's House. The NRHP listing included two
contributing buildings In the law regulating historic districts in the United States, a contributing property or contributing resource is any building, object, or structure which adds to the historical integrity or architectural qualities that make the historic distric ...
on . It is located across the street from the
Oklahoma State Penitentiary The Oklahoma State Penitentiary, nicknamed "Big Mac", is a prison of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections located in McAlester, Oklahoma, on . Opened in 1908 with 50 inmates in makeshift facilities, today the prison holds more than 750 male off ...
.


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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Oklahoma Renaissance Revival architecture in Oklahoma Mission Revival architecture in Oklahoma Houses in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma National Register of Historic Places in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma {{Oklahoma-NRHP-stub