Escoe Building

Infobox_nrhp | name =Escoe Building
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location= Muskogee, Oklahoma
lat_degrees = 35
lat_minutes = 44
lat_seconds = 58.32
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 95
long_minutes = 22
long_seconds = 8
long_direction = W
locmapin = Oklahoma
area =
built =1908
architect= Escoe, W.T.
architecture= No Style Listed
added = July 14, 1983
governing_body = Private
refnum=83002094cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service] The Escoe Building, also known as the Simmons Building, was at 228-230 N. 2nd St., Muskogee, Oklahoma. It was a two-story brick office building built in 1908 and demolished in 1988.

The Escoe Building was the only professional building in Muskogee's black district and housed the first black-owned bank in Oklahoma. It was also known as the Simmons Building because it housed the Simmons Royalty Co., Oklahoma's first major oil business owned by a black family. [cite web
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title = Escoe Building
publisher = Oklahoma Historical Society
url = http://www.ocgi.okstate.edu/shpo/shpopic.asp?id=83002094
date =
accessdate = 2008-02-08 ]

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