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The Bizzell Memorial Library, known also as Bizzell Library, is a five-story brick structure located at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma.It is an elaborate Collegiate Gothic or Cherokee Gothic building, designed by the architecture firm Layton Hicks & Forsyth and erected in 1928 during the administration of OU's fifth president, William Bennett Bizzell.
The List of National Historic Landmarks in Oklahoma contains the landmarks designated by the U.S. Federal Government for the U.S. state of Oklahoma. There are 22 National Historic Landmarks in Oklahoma. The following table is a complete list.
Norman designated seat of newly created Cleveland County. [2] High Gate College established. [3] Population: 787. [3] 1891 – City of Norman incorporated. [2] 1892 – University of Oklahoma opens. [4] 1893 – Griffin Memorial Hospital established. [2] 1895 – Central State Hospital established. 1899 – University's Natural History Museum ...
It contains the offices of the University College, graduation offices, tutoring services, a writing center, several classrooms and small group study rooms. [30] Whitehand Hall 1920 This administrative building was once a Masonic dormitory, built with a $300,000 donation from the Masonic Charity Foundation of Oklahoma. [31]
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This article lists the oldest extant buildings in Oklahoma, including extant buildings and structures constructed prior to and during the United States rule over Oklahoma. Only buildings built prior to 1870 are suitable for inclusion on this list, or the building must be the oldest of its type.
Oklahoma's admission into the union in 1907 led to the renaming of the Norman Territorial University as the University of Oklahoma. Norman residents donated 407 acres (1.6 km 2 ) of land for the university 0.5 miles (0.8 km) south of the Norman railroad depot.
Bizzell Memorial Library. Cherokee Gothic is a term coined by Frank Lloyd Wright for a vernacular architectural style used on the campus of the University of Oklahoma. [1] [2] The term was invented by Wright while on a tour of the school's grounds, and, when coined, applied to Bizzell Memorial Library and Evans Hall.