St. Anthony's Catholic Church (Okmulgee, Oklahoma)
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St. Anthony's Catholic Church is a historic
Spanish Colonial Revival The Spanish Colonial Revival architecture (), often known simply as Spanish Revival, is a term used to encompass a number of revivalist architectural styles based in both Spanish colonial architecture and Spanish architecture in general. Thes ...
-style church at 515 S. Morton Street in
Okmulgee, Oklahoma Okmulgee is a city in the Tulsa metropolitan area and the county seat of Okmulgee County, Oklahoma, Okmulgee County in Oklahoma, United States. The name is from the Muskogee language, Muskogee word ''okimulgi,'' which means "boiling waters".Bambu ...
, United States. It was built in 1927 and added to the
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in 1983.See also the
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The interior features tall, smooth-shafted Corinthian columns topped with capitals enriched with acanthus leaves, caulicoli, and molded abacus. It also contains an high
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and stone
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imported from
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soon after the church was built. With


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Mission Revival architecture in Oklahoma Buildings and structures in Okmulgee County, Oklahoma Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Oklahoma Roman Catholic churches completed in 1927 Churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tulsa National Register of Historic Places in Okmulgee County, Oklahoma 20th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in the United States {{Oklahoma-RC-church-stub