Williams School in
Cameron, Oklahoma was a
Works Progress Administration project that was built in 1936. It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
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It was deemed significant for its character (in architecture), for its construction having provided jobs for destitute laborers "close to the edge of starvation", for providing a better learning environment, and for helping "to instill a sense of pride within the community."][
It is a one-story ]hipped-roof
A hip roof, hip-roof or hipped roof, is a type of roof where all sides slope downwards to the walls, usually with a fairly gentle slope (although a tented roof by definition is a hipped roof with steeply pitched slopes rising to a peak). Thus, ...
building with native sandstone walls.[
Its design is from an Oklahoma State Department of Education pattern book.][ with ]
See also
*Summerfield School (Oklahoma)
The Summerfield School, located off US 271 in Summerfield, Oklahoma, USA, was built in 1937 as a Works Progress Administration project. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
It is a single-story hipped-roof four-ro ...
References
School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Oklahoma
School buildings completed in 1936
Works Progress Administration in Oklahoma
Buildings and structures in Le Flore County, Oklahoma
National Register of Historic Places in Le Flore County, Oklahoma
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