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Town of Guthrie, U.S. Route 77 & State Road 33, Guthrie, Logan County, OK

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Summary

Significance: Guthrie is a town which sprang up literally overnight. On April 21, 1889, the site was occupied by numerous lot markets, several skulking "sooners" and two wooden buildings, the recently constructed Federal land office and the slightly older Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad depot. By the evening of the 22nd, it was booming tent city, its population between ten and fifteen thousand people, occupying four town sits instead of the original single sit laid out by the government surveyors. According to the terms of the opening of the territory the town could only occupy 320 acres. The provision was circumvented by the settlers of Guthrie by organizing four separate municipal governments which were consolidated only when the absurdity of the original law was finally realized and correct, in August 1890. Immediately, the new citizens began to make the settlement a permanent one, erecting wooden houses and a few wooden commercial structures.

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-7

Survey number: HABS OK-10

Building/structure dates: 1889 Initial Construction

National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 74001664

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cities and towns pioneers publishing industry commerce settlement patterns real estate development commercial facilities guthrie okla guthrie state road logan logan county oklahoma william e barrett joseph foucart frank greer barry gryb john c haggard historic american buildings survey john hnedak c c howell john robbins walter smalling julian smith howard takenaka photo ultra high resolution high resolution architecture railroad railroad architecture street view exterior detroit publishing company photograph collection library of congress national register of historic places
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Date

1933 - 1970
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Contributors

Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Howell, C C
Foucart, Joseph
Greer, Frank
Haggard, John C, project manager
Gryb, Barry, field team
Robbins, John, field team
Smith, Julian, field team
Takenaka, Howard, field team
Barrett, William E, photographer
Smalling, Walter, photographer
Hnedak, John, historian
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Location

Guthrie (Okla.) ,  35.88011, -97.42534
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Library of Congress
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http://www.loc.gov/
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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

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cities and towns pioneers publishing industry commerce settlement patterns real estate development commercial facilities guthrie okla guthrie state road logan logan county oklahoma william e barrett joseph foucart frank greer barry gryb john c haggard historic american buildings survey john hnedak c c howell john robbins walter smalling julian smith howard takenaka photo ultra high resolution high resolution architecture railroad railroad architecture street view exterior detroit publishing company photograph collection library of congress national register of historic places