Frisco Station


Frisco Station
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Show map of Oklahoma Show map of the US
Location	Texas Ave., Idabel, Oklahoma
Coordinates	33°53′39″N 94°49′45″W / 33.89417°N 94.82917°W / 33.89417; -94.82917Coordinates: 33°53′39″N 94°49′45″W / 33.89417°N 94.82917°W / 33.89417; -94.82917
Built	1912
Built by	Vanderslip,E.M. & Co.
NRHP Reference #	79003137^[1]
Added to NRHP	May 21, 1979

Frisco Station in Idabel, Oklahoma is a train station that was built in 1912 by the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway. It replaced an earlier frame structure that had been constructed in 1902. It was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1979.^[1] Today it is the headquarters of the Idabel Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture.

Description

The building footprint is 102 feet (31 m) long by 24 feet (7.3 m) wide. The walls are red brick, and the entire building is covered with a clay tile roof. The roof has eyelid dormers on the north and south faces. A notable feature is that the eaves have an unusually wide 8 foot (2.4 m) overhang beyond the walls, because of the relatively high rainfall in this part of Oklahoma. It cost $10,000 to construct in 1912, and was built by the E. M. Vanderslip and Company of Oklahoma City.^[2]

NRHP listing

At the time the NRHP application was submitted, the station was still owned by the Frisco Railroad, which was using the building as a freight office with a one-man staff. However, the company was already planning to close the office, in which case it would demolish the structure to eliminate future maintenance costs.^[2] The Idabel Chamber of Commerce has moved into the building since then.

The McCurtain County Historical Society argued to be the center of commercial and social activity for Idabel for 40 years, being the host of four passenger trains daily and also of freight trains, while there were no other common carriers serving Idabel. "Idabel" itself is named for Ida and Belle Purnell, daughters of a railway official.^[2]

References

1 2 National Park Service (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
1 2 3 Howard L. Meredith (February 14, 1979). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Frisco Station" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved September 19, 2016. with photos

External links

Idabel Chamber of Commerce

U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Topics	Architectural style categories Contributing property Historic district History of the National Register of Historic Places Keeper of the Register National Park Service Property types

Lists by states	Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming

Lists by insular areas	American Samoa Guam Minor Outlying Islands Northern Mariana Islands Puerto Rico Virgin Islands

Lists by associated states	Federated States of Micronesia Marshall Islands Palau

Other areas	District of Columbia Morocco

Portal WikiProject

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 11/30/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.