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Poteau School Gymnasium-Auditorium

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The gym/auditorium is significant because is provided space for school and community activities, especially basketball, which fostered a sense of identity and pride lacking in the depression era. Construction of it also provided work opportunities for unskilled and unemployed laborers in the Poteau
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area where few had existed previously. As a WPA building, the structure is notable for its size/scale. Within the community it is unique architecturally because of its type, style, scale, materials and workmanship.
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It was one of 48 buildings and 11 structures reviewed in a 1985 study of WPA works in southeastern Oklahoma, which led to almost all of them being listed on the National Register in 1988.
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It is a two-story 100 by 78 feet (30 m × 24 m) building built of coursed cream-colored native
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National Register of Historic Places listings in LeFlore County, Oklahoma
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property in Oklahoma on the National Register of Historic Places
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Poteau School Gymnasium-Auditorium is located in Oklahoma
Poteau School Gymnasium-Auditorium is located in the United States
Poteau, Oklahoma
35°03′07″N 94°37′03″W / 35.051918°N 94.617576°W / 35.051918; -94.617576
Works Progress Administration
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WPA Public Bldgs., Recreational Facilities and Cemetery Improvements in Southeastern Oklahoma, 1935-1943 TR
88001404
Poteau
Le Flore County, Oklahoma
National Register of Historic Places
Works Progress Administration
sandstone
parapets


"National Register Information System"
National Register of Historic Places
National Park Service



"National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination Continuation: Poteau School Gymnasium-Auditorium"
National Park Service
two photos from 1984
"National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) Public Buildings, Recreational Facilities, and Cemetery Improvements in Southeastern Oklahoma, 1935-1943 (Thematic Resources)"
National Park Service
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