WPA Public Bldgs., Recreational Facilities and Cemetery Improvements in Southeastern Oklahoma, 1935--1943 TR
NRHP reference No.
88001403[1]
Added to NRHP
September 8, 1988
The Poteau Community Building, in Poteau in Le Flore County in southeastern Oklahoma, is a multipurpose community building built as Works Progress Administration project in 1937. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.[1]
It is a two-story 39 by 35 feet (12 m × 11 m) structure made of rusticated and coursed native sandstone with exterior chimneys at each end.[2]
It was one of multiple WPA-related properties studied as a group in 1985, many of which were then listed on the National Register.[3]
^ ab"National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^"National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination Continuation: Poteau Community Building". National Park Service. Retrieved June 16, 2017. With two photos from 1984.
^W. David Baird (June 15, 1985). "National Register of Historic Places Multiple Property Documentation: Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) Public Buildings, Recreational Facilities, and Cemetery Improvements in Southeastern Oklahoma, 1935-1943 TR". National Park Service. Retrieved June 16, 2017.
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