700 block of N. Robinson, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. County/parish: Oklahoma.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places November 07, 1976. NRIS 76001570.
1 contributing building.Also known as:
Central High School is a historic former school building in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, designed by Solomon Andrew Layton. The school opened in 1910, and operated as a high school until 1968. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. It was converted to offices in the 1980s by Southwestern Bell, who renamed it One Bell Central.
One Bell Central was damaged in the Oklahoma City bombing of 1995, which destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building two blocks west. Following the bombing, the president of Southwestern Bell offered the building as an incident command headquarters, a role which it served in for multiple weeks during the rescue operations. Southwestern Bell vacated the building in 2005, and it was briefly owned by an insurance company before being sold to Oklahoma City University in 2012. Since 2015, the Central High School building has housed the Oklahoma City University School of Law.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/86511696