Spencerville School Campus
S of Spencerville, Spencerville, OKThe location of an historic academy of the Choctaw Indians, Spencerville provided few educational opportunities for white residents before 1935. The WPA-built structures, therefore, are significant because they created a new environment conducive to learning for students theretofore deprived educationally. Architecturally the buildings are unique in the community because of their type, style, scale, materials and workmanship. Equally important is that construction of them provided work opportunities for unskilled and unemployed laborers in a rural and remote area where none previously existed and residents faced the prospect of 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.