Credit Matt Trotter / KWGS Tulsa has a new listing on the National Register of Historic Places: Tulsa Public Schools Webster High, located just off of Route 66.
An alumni group led a campaign to recommend the school for listing last year. This is just a really glorious setting on 20 acres. We have some rich architecture inside and outside. You ll see wonderful, built-in filing cabinets, you ll see intricate woodwork, beautiful lighting, and that s what makes a great school and a longstanding tradition here in west Tulsa, said Webster Principal Shelly Holman.
Webster’s art deco main building and its gym were built in 1938 as a Public Works Administration project, a New Deal agency intended to help lift the U.S. out of the Great Depression. Its stadium was built in 1941 under another Depression-era local jobs program, and the school is believed to be the first in northeast Oklahoma to integrate after the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1954 ruling in
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June 5 barbecue to benefit 123-year-old Aurora schoolhouse On June 5, Big Woods School Foundation will hold a drive-thru barbecue dinner fundraiser at historic Big Woods School in Aurora. Proceeds will benefit renovation of the one-room schoolhouse built in 1917-18. Courtesy of Al Benson
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Big Woods School Foundation will hold a drive-thru barbecue dinner fundraiser Saturday, June 5. It will be 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. at 123-year-old Big Woods School, 3033 N. Eola Road in Aurora.
The public is invited. Proceeds will benefit renovation of the one-room schoolhouse built in 1917-18.
Dinner choices are half chicken, two pork chops or a combination. Sides are apple sauce, baked beans, cole slaw and roll and butter. Meals are prepared by 5B s Catering of Waterman.