Hooker Woodframe Grain Elevator

United States historic place


Hooker Woodframe Grain Elevator
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

The Hooker Woodframe Grain Elevator from the southwest
36°52′3″N 101°12′39″W / 36.86750°N 101.21083°W / 36.86750; -101.21083
Area	less than one acre
Built	1926
Built by	Riffe & Gilmore Co.
MPS	Woodframe Grain Elevators of Oklahoma Panhandle TR
NRHP reference No.	83002133^[1]
Added to NRHP	May 13, 1983

The Hooker Woodframe Grain Elevator is a grain elevator in Hooker, Oklahoma. The elevator was built in 1926 by the Riffe & Gilmore Co. and operated by the Wheat Pool Elevator Company. Located along the Beaver, Meade and Englewood Railroad, which ran from the east at Beaver, Oklahoma to the west at Keyes, Oklahoma (northeast of Boise City),^[2] the elevator served the local wheat industry. It was one of several built to compete with the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad elevators in the region.^[3] The elevator was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 13, 1983^[1] and is one of two National Register of Historic Places listings in Texas County, Oklahoma located around Hooker.

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ "The Beaver, Meade and Englewood Railroad". abandonedrails.com. Retrieved February 26, 2020.
^ "National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form: Hooker Woodframe Grain Elevator" (PDF). Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service. Retrieved October 27, 2012.