1895 - Cobb Building - FIRST Brick Building - Wagoner, OK
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N 35° 57.595 W 095° 22.607
15S E 285658 N 3982114
The Cobb Building has the distinction of being the FIRST permanent brick building in the FIRST incorporated town in Indian Territory.
Waymark Code: WMY68X
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 04/29/2018
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Styled in the Queen Anne Commercial style, the Cobb Building was constructed by pioneer settler Samuel S. Cobb in 1895. He built it to serve as a U.S. Post Office, as well as a drugstore business which he owned. The second floor was constructed with a ballroom and meetings areas and it served the community of Wagoner as the center of its social life until the 1920's. At that time, the second floor was divided into offices for doctors, dentists and attorneys, until the building was purchased in the 1960's by its current occupant, American Bank.
On the West wall a bronze plaque reads:
Oklahoma State Society
Daughters of
the American Colonists
recognizes and honors this
first permanent brick building
in the first incorporated town
in Indian Territory
WAGONER
Settled June 5, 1887 by the Wm. H. McAnnallys.
Incorporated January 4, 1896 to provide law
and order, public improvements and the upbuilding
of society for its citizens who offered the first
free municipal schools in Indian Territory in 1897
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The south-facing facade is extremely ornate, with a pressed tin parapet. At each end of the facade, as well as on the northwest corner are fluted tin cupolas. The one on the southwest corner is embossed with "S. S. COBB / 1895".
The second floor has two three-sided bays which protrude three feet over the first floor. All windows are fixed-pane, with the ones on the first floor facade having cedar wood panels above and below each unit. In the 1970's all the windows were upgraded to thermopane, but the original framing was left undisturbed. The upper wall of the west side has a cedar parapet with dentils, under which are wood panels. The windows on the first floor facade have carved wood posts flanking them, and each window is divided in two.
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