Coalgate School Gymnasium-Auditorium
Fox and Frey Sts., Coalgate, OKThe gym/auditorium is significant because its construction gave work to unemployed coal miners on relief in the Coalgate area. Then as now, it provided space for school and community activities, especially basketball competition, which fostered a sense of identity and pride not widely known in the region beforehand. Architecturally the gym/auditorium is unique in the community because of its type, style, scale, materials and workmanship. Moreover, it is one of three extant WPA structures in the entire county.
Local significance of the building:Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
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