Guthrie Historic District (Guthrie, Oklahoma)
The Guthrie Historic District (GHD) is a National Historic Landmark District encompassing the commercial core of Guthrie, Oklahoma, US. According to its National Historic Landmark Nomination it is roughly bounded by Oklahoma Avenue on the north, Broad Street on the east, Harrison Avenue on the south, and the railroad tracks on the west; it also includes 301 W. Harrison Avenue.National Historic Landmark Nomination: Guthrie Historic District.
1998. Retrieved August 9, 2014 The National Historic Landmarks Program on-line document describes the boundaries as "14th Street, College Avenue, Pine Street and Lincoln Avenue. One building, the Logan County Courthouse (Guthrie, Oklahoma), Logan County Courthouse, is at 301 E. Harrison Avenue, outside the main boundaries of the GHD,"
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Guthrie, Oklahoma
Guthrie is a city and county seat in Logan County, Oklahoma, United States, and a part of the Oklahoma City Metroplex. The population was 10,191 at the 2010 census, a 2.7 percent increase from the figure of 9,925 in the 2000 census. First known as a railroad station stop, after the Land Run of 1889, Guthrie immediately gained 10,000 new residents, who began to develop the town. It was rapidly improved and was designated as the territorial capital, and in 1907 as the first state capital of Oklahoma. In 1910, state voters chose the larger Oklahoma City as the new capital in a special election. Guthrie is nationally significant for its collection of late 19th and early 20th century commercial architecture. The Guthrie Historic District includes more than 2,000 buildings and is designated as a National Historic Landmark. Historic tourism is important to the city, and its Victorian architecture provides a backdrop for Wild West and territorial-style entertainment, carriage t ...
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Carnegie Library (Guthrie, Oklahoma)
The Carnegie Library in Guthrie, Oklahoma, is a building at 406 East Oklahoma Avenue. Constructed in 1901, It was the second Carnegie-funded library built in Oklahoma and the oldest one still in existence. The Guthrie library opened on May 20, 1903,"Guthrie."
Retrieved August 10, 2014. It remained Guthrie's main library until 1972, when the city decided to tear it down and build a new facility in its place. Fred Pfeiffer, a local philanthropist, offered to fund a new structure next door to the Carnegie Library, if the old building were kept intact. The city accepted his offer, and gave the building to the Oklahoma Historical Society. It was listed on the

Richardsonian Romanesque
Richardsonian Romanesque is a style of Romanesque Revival architecture named after the American architect Henry Hobson Richardson (1838–1886). The revival style incorporates 11th and 12th century southern French, Spanish, and Italian Romanesque characteristics. Richardson first used elements of the style in his Richardson Olmsted Complex in Buffalo, New York, designed in 1870. Multiple architects followed in this style in the late 19th century; Richardsonian Romanesque later influenced modern styles of architecture as well. History and development This very free revival style incorporates 11th and 12th century southern French, Spanish and Italian Romanesque characteristics. It emphasizes clear, strong picturesque massing, round-headed "Romanesque" arches, often springing from clusters of short squat columns, recessed entrances, richly varied rustication, blank stretches of walling contrasting with bands of windows, and cylindrical towers with conical caps embedded in the w ...
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Old Santa Fe Depot Of Guthrie
Old Santa Fe Depot of Guthrie is a former railway station in Guthrie, Oklahoma. Built in 1903, it still stands at its original site, 403 West Oklahoma Avenue. The building is currently in use by the local restaurant: Gage’s Steakhouse. Status This is no longer a working depot. Santa Fe Railroad ceased operating passenger trains to Guthrie, and Amtrak does not stop here any longer. Back in the early 1900s, during the period when Guthrie as the capital of Oklahoma Territory, there were up to 40 trains stopping here every day. One of the famous Harvey House restaurants was located inside the building. The building has been recognized as a contributing resource of the Guthrie Historic District. In June 2021, Amtrak released a plan that would add two more round trips between Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and Fort Worth, Texas while extending the original round trip to Newton, Kansas Newton is a city in and the county seat of Harvey County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 c ...
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DeFord Building
Deford may refer to: People Surnames * Frank Deford (1938–2017), American sportswriter and commentator * Miriam Allen deFord (1888–1975), American writer * William DeFord (1807–1898), American politician from Ohio Given names * DeFord Bailey (1899–1982), early country music star and the first African American performer on the Grand Ole Opry Places * Deford, Michigan Deford is an unincorporated community in Tuscola County in the U.S. state of Michigan, located along Bruce/ Deckerville Road In the plated subdivision, Deckerville Road is called Bruce Road. west of the intersection with Kingston Road (Section 3 ...

Scottish Rite Temple (Guthrie, Oklahoma)
The Scottish Rite Temple in Guthrie, Oklahoma, is a Masonic temple that serves as the home of the Scottish Rite in the Guthrie Valley, Oklahoma Orient, Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, Southern Jurisdiction, U.S.A. This is actually a complex consisting of two buildings on a plot of ground on Oklahoma Avenue in downtown Guthrie that was originally named Capitol Park. NRHP Assessment The Scottish Rite Temple of Guthrie is architecturally and historically significant because it is one of the best examples of large scale, Neo-Classical Revival style in Oklahoma; it is the largest, most elaborately designed and constructed Masonic Temple in the state; and because of its importance historically to the Masonic fraternal organization in Oklahoma. Also "it has been recognized as the center of state-level Masonic activities since 1923, when first used even before completion. It is ... the site of the Mason's statewide functions. ... " Description Original building and p ...
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