Final Survey Report: Architectural/Historical Intensive Level Survey of Certain Portions of El Reno, Canadian County, Oklahoma, October 1, 1989

Oklahoma Historic Preservation Survey, Department of History, Oklahoma State University

Abstract: "This document serves as the final survey report for the architectural/historic Intensive Level survey of Certain Portions of El Reno, Canadian County, Oklahoma. The Oklahoma Historic Preservation Survey, an adjunct of the Department of History at Oklahoma State University performed the work between September 1, 1988 and September 30, 1989 under a contract (#40-88-30041.004) with the State Historic Preservation Office of the Oklahoma Historical Society. Project personnel conducted an intensive level survey within downtown El Reno in order to: (1) record and photograph all properties within the area which have not been documented within the past five years; (2) identify individual properties and potential districts which warrant further study for possible inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places: and (3) identify areas of downtown El Reno devoid of historic resources. The survey covered seventeen blocks of downtown El Reno, Oklahoma, which lies in the State Historic Preservation Office's Management Region #6. A total of 112 properties are within the study area. Of these, 102 were recorded during the present survey. The other ten properties were recorded during the Architectural/Historic survey of El Reno and Portions of Canadian county in 1988. Of the 102 properties recorded for the present survey, 28 warrant additional study to determine their eligibility for the National Register of Historic Places. Some of these are included in an identified discontiguous potential historic district. This survey, plus the individual property files and the historic context document prepared as part of the 1988 reconnaissance level survey, seeks to facilitate land-use-management within the study area in a manner which is sensitive to its historic resources. Funding was provided in part by a 1988 Historic Preservation Fund grant administered by the Oklahoma State Historic Preservation Office (project number OK-88-004, grant number 40-88-30041) and the State, Tribal, and Local Plans and Grants Division, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.

Final Survey Report: Architectural/Historical Intensive Level Survey of Certain Portions of El Reno, Canadian County, Oklahoma, October 1, 1989

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