Reconnaissance Level Survey of Stillwater, Oklahoma, 1997-98

Department of Geography, Oklahoma State University; Carney, George

Abstract: "Under contract to the Oklahoma State Historic Preservation Office, Principal Investigator George O. Camey and Research Assistant, Cynthia Poulton, both from the Oklahoma State University Department of Geography, conducted a Reconnaissance Level Survey of Stillwater during the 1997-98 fiscal years. That survey included a portion of Stillwater as specified by the survey and planning subgrant stipulations. One hundred forty-two properties were minimally recorded and photographed including completion of an Historic Preservation Resource Identification Form and two elevation photographs for each. This document includes an extensive narrative that furnishes a historical context for the Stillwater study area, maps that illustrate the area surveyed, a research design for the project and the methodology used to implement it, an annotated bibliography pertinent to the study area, and, most important, the results of the reconnaissance level survey. Among those results are a discussion of the different kinds of properties encountered in the field, an identification of individual properties and potential historic districts that meet age and integrity requirements, an examination of areas and properties that warrant further study to determine eligibility for listing in the National Register of Historic Places, and an analysis of those portions of the study area that fail to meet the criteria of the National Register of Historic Places. As a part of the survey, thumbnail sketches of areas in Stillwater are outlined regarding potential districts, those which merit further study, and those that are eliminated from further consideration. An evaluation of the architectural significance of the individual properties and potential historic districts is provided by Professor Jeffrey Williams of the School of Architecture at Oklahoma State University." Funding was provided in part by a Historic Preservation Fund grant administered by the Oklahoma State Historic Preservation Office and the State, Tribal, and Local Plans and Grants Division, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.

Reconnaissance Level Survey of Stillwater, Oklahoma, 1997-98

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