National Register Listing

Provine Service Station

a.k.a. Hamons' Service Station

0.5 mi. E of jct. of I-40 and OK 58, Hydro, OK

The Provine Service Station, located in Hydro, Oklahoma, is historically and architecturally significant as an unusual local example of an early service station along Route 66, in which the owner's living quarters were combined with the station. This building was constructed in 1929 and served the motoring public as an important gasoline stop along Route 66 before and after the realignment of the Calumet-Geary loop in 1933. Contextually, the Provine Service Station relates to "Commerce on Route 66 in Oklahoma (1926-1944)." The associated property type is Filling Stations, Service Stations and Garages.

Local significance of the building:
Commerce; Architecture

Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

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.