El Reno Hotel
300 S. Choctaw St., El Reno, OKSignificance of the El Reno Hotel lies not in what it was, but in what it represents - the typical small town hostelry on the western frontier ... not in its appearance - a traditional two-story frame structure with ginger-breaded" porch - but in its longevity. Erected in 1892, three years after El Reno was established with the opening to white settlement of old Oklahoma in 1889, it has survived over 80 years of municipal growth and development with a minimum of physical of procedural change. Although it has registered no guests since 1975, it stands quietly with paint-peeling dignity, most of its original furnishings intact, a museum-quality exhibit of the modest, center-of-everything, small town hotel.
Local significance of the building:Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
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.