National Register Listing

Noble Hotel

a.k.a. Bills, Abe, Rooming House

112 N. Noble St., Watonga, OK

The Noble Hotel is eligible for the National Register of Historic Places under Criterion A for the role it played in the commercial life of downtown Watonga, Oklahoma Originally one of five hotels in the commercial core, it is the only one that is still extant. The Noble Hotel is also eligible for the National Register under Criterion c as an excellent local example of a Prairie Commercial style building in Watonga, and the only one with a second story balcony.

Local significance of the building:
Architecture; Commerce

Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

The National Register of Historic Places is the official list of the Nation’s historic places worthy of preservation. Authorized by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, the National Park Service’s National Register of Historic Places is part of a national program to coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify, evaluate, and protect America’s historic and archeological resources.