Caddo Community Building
E. Buffalo St., Caddo, OKThe Caddo Community Building is the only structure to provide multi-purpose space to town residents, a function it has performed since the depression. Today it serves primarily as a senior citizen center. Architecturally it is significant within the community because of its type, WPA style, materials and character of workmanship. Construction of it, moreover, provided jobs for unskilled workers whose only other alternative was starvation.
Local significance of the building:Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
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.