Meacham Building
102 E. Main St., Oilton, OKThe Meacham Building is significant because it is the only three-story commercial structure remaining on Main Street in Oilton, Oklahoma Oilton, an oil boom town, emerged from a cotton farming area to a city of 3,000 residents in a period of seven weeks in 1915. The building was a hub of business activity during the peak production years of the Cushing oil field serving the oil field workers as both hotel and furniture store. Of the many hotels and boarding houses that once provided lodging for oil field laborers in the Cushing field, the Meacham Building is the only hotel structure left intact from Oilton's oil boom period. The building escaped a devastating fire in 1916 which destroyed most of the commercial district on the south side of Main Street. Originally, the building included a mezzanine floor with open balcony which was an attempt by the builders to bring sophistication to the primitive conditions of the oil boom town.
Local significance of the building:Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
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