City Hall, Overholser Dam added to National Register of Historic Places



The Oklahoma City Municipal Building and the Overholser Dam have been added to the National Register of Historic Places.



"Primarily, it's the acknowledgement that these places are significant in the City's history,” said Jim Gabbert, who is the National Register Program Coordinator for the Oklahoma Historical Society. “Both were listed for their role in category of community development and planning.”



The nominations were prepared by graduate students in the Public History program at the University of Central Oklahoma, where Gabbert is an adjunct professor.



The Oklahoma City Municipal Building (usually referred to as City Hall) was built in 1936 as part of a civic improvement program. It cost $585,257, paid for with a WPA grant and a municipal bond issue.



The Municipal Building is part of a larger Downtown area originally known as Civic Center, which included City Hall, the Municipal Auditorium (now known as the Civic Center Music Hall), Civic Center Park and the old Police Headquarters Building on N. Shartel.



The Municipal Building underwent massive interior renovation from 1995-98.



An exterior refurbishing and landscaping in 2002 included the replacement of all of the building's windows with energy-efficient reproductions.



The motto over the east and west entrances to the building reads, "Dedicated to the people of Oklahoma City and for the preservation of good government."



The Overholser Dam was built in 1917-18 to create the City’s first reservoir on the North Canadian River. The dam was funded by a $1.5 million bond issue passed by citizens in 1916.



The concrete ‘Ambursen-type’ dam (named for the engineer who developed it) is 62 feet high and 1,258 feet long. It is named for Edward Overholser, who served in a number of City and county positions culminating in a term as Mayor from 1915 to 1918.



Listing in the National Register of Historic Places makes the Municipal Building and Overholser Dam eligible for consideration for federally-assisted programs.



The National Register is administered by the National Park Service.

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Missing from this list is the County Building between Couch Drive and Kerr and between Harvey and Hudson. It is the tallest structure of the Civic Center project, and the entire project changed the face of OKC in the thirties and today remains a shining example the art deco style that typified that decade

Yeah, I love those 3 buildings.