The story is it wasn’t a horrible care center until about the 1980s, when family members of patients and patients themselves began complaining about inadequate care. Shuttered in 1996, the Pawnee Care Center operated for nearly 30 years as a nursing home.
Thus, it’s not a sound investment for a business due to the area and location. Based on what I’ve heard and read, there’s no way this beautiful building can be repurposed due to how the city of Shawnee has migrated much of its development north of this location. It was one of three schools all built using the same design and materials in the very early 1900s. It’s an exterior shot of the Washington School of Shawnee, which was closed down in the 1990s. But it was a pretty big place with, apparently, exceptional nurses and administrators that gave exceptional care to their patients.ġ8. Driving by Whispering Pines doesn’t yield much interest, because it just looks like an old care home. It’s an interesting place, especially once you view all of the photos in our gallery and on the Abandoned Oklahoma site. No one really saw it coming, but hindsight is 20/20 and there were obvious signs that it was imminent now that everything is said and done. My wife and I live a couple blocks from Whispering Pines in Norman, and I clearly remember when it was shut down not too long ago. The 2000 census noted just 102 people called Blackburn home at that time. It was incorporated in 1909, but two years prior was one of the great whiskey towns of the Oklahoma Territory.Īlthough Blackburn was a healthy community, it never saw its true potential because it didn’t have a railroad or highway running through it.
The town of Blackburn got its start in the early 1890s after a post office was established. The hospital was also home to some influential doctors in the world of mental health, and the pioneering of treatments and medicines. The Abandoned Oklahoma page for Eastern State Hospital has a great read on the location’s history, but some of the more interesting tidbits include: The hospital received its first patients in 1913 and by 1954 it had risen to more than 2,000 for a long time hospital workers were required to live on the grounds and meals were part of their salaries and there was a farm on the grounds that was renowned for its dairy, and it produced a great deal of fresh produce and meat. So, a new hospital was built elsewhere in town and the old one was torn down. There’s nothing much to say about this spot other than it was built in 1940 and wasn’t in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. I’m happy the Abandoned Oklahoma team was able to visit the site for the original Kingfisher Regional Hospital because it has since been razed. Old Kingfisher Regional Hospital, Kingfisher The building is also structurally unique and is the lone example of a Romanesque Revival-style church in Atoka County.Ģ2.
Despite the Presbyterians’ long history in the area, the costs of keeping the building running as donation dollars ceased was enough to shut the doors in the 1990s.Ībandoned Oklahoma points out the uniqueness of the church: It was built by the Faudree Brothers, whom were notable contractors in the early 1900s. The congregation at the Atoka First Presbyterian Church was booming in the 1930s, but by the 1960s had shrunk to just 40-something members. Once the refinery was built, the community soon followed, which included a school and some stores.Ģ3. They produced Veedol motor oil and the Flying A-branded products. The Tydol Oil Refinery, located in Drumright, was once a major refinery in all of the United States. Also, because of when this information was compiled, some of these locations might not exist anymore due to demolitions, and so on. All photos by the Abandoned Oklahoma team.
HAUNTED ABANDONED PLACES NEAR ME FULL
They’re also full of history, and thanks to the hard work done by the team at Abandoned Oklahoma, we’re able to see these places before it’s too late.įor more photos of these places, check out the gallery below the article. But that’s exactly what the following 24 abandoned places are: beautiful and creepy. Beautiful and creepy aren’t two words one typically puts together when describing something, let alone abandoned places in Oklahoma.
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