The Guthrie Historic District (GHD) is a

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encompassing the commercial core of

Guthrie, Oklahoma Guthrie is a city and county seat in Logan County, Oklahoma, United States, and a part of the Oklahoma City Metroplex. Its population was 10,191 at the 2010 census, a 2.7% increase from 9,925 in the 2000 census. First known as a railroad st ...

, 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, is at 301 E. Harrison Avenue, outside the main boundaries of the GHD," This article relies on the former source, which is more detailed. According to the 1998 nomination, the proposed district covered . The nomination included 112

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, classed as 69 contributing buildings, 38 non-contributing buildings, 1 non-contributing structure and 3 noncontributing objects. It was declared a

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in 1999 for its historic significance as the first capital of the

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and of

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. and

Period of significance

The period of significance is defined as 1889 to 1910, when most of the contributing buildings were erected. The most notable architect at the time was

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, who designed many of the buildings in the table below. The city of Guthrie was founded in 1889 in the wake of the

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which opened lands of the

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to white settlement. Guthrie promptly became the capital of the

. When Oklahoma became a state on November 16, 1907, Guthrie became the first state capital, a role it held until 1910, when the seat of government moved to

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. Guthrie thereafter declined in commercial importance and changed little for many years. The GHD was assessed to have a high degree of historic integrity.

Architectural styles

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Italianate The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. Like Palladianism and Neoclassicism, the Italianate style combined its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century It ...

* Romanesque *Late 19th & Early 20th Century Revivals * Beaux Arts *

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*Late 19th & Early 20th Century American Movements *Commercial Style The district includes buildings separately listed on the

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, including: * Carnegie Library * Co-operative Publishing Company Building * Logan County Courthouse

Building classifications

As part of the application process, all of the significant buildings within the proposed district boundaries were labeled as either "Contributing" or "non-contributing". Buildings in the former category had to meet the following criteria: *Built between 1893 and 1910; *Had not lost their historical character through remodeling or conversion to other uses The table presented here identifies the buildings contained by the GHD, as defined in the NRHP application. Data are largely derived from text descriptions in the application.National Historic Landmark Nomination: Guthrie Historic District.
1998. Retrieved August 9, 2014.

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External links

{{NRHP in Logan County, Oklahoma National Historic Landmarks in Oklahoma Geography of Logan County, Oklahoma Victorian architecture in Oklahoma Neoclassical architecture in Oklahoma Guthrie, Oklahoma Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Oklahoma National Register of Historic Places in Logan County, Oklahoma

Period of significance

Architectural styles

Building classifications

See also

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