Collinsville,
Oklahoma
April
8, 2012
Big
Plans For First Baptist Block(s)
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Work
On New Parking Lot To Start April 9th
House
Removals Have Continued For Years
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(email questions/comments to wrightted@aol.com).
Ted Wright -- last update 4/8/2012 (BaptistBlockChanges.html)
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Copyright 2012 -- Collinsville, Oklahoma
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This
drawing shows expansion plans for the First Baptist Church campus in Downtown
Collinsville including removal of former residential houses and added parking
lots. Work on the parking lot west of 13th and south of Center is set to begin
now following the recent removal of the house on that corner. This drawing was
available at the Feb. 20, 2012 City Commission meeting.
"Yellow House"
at 13th and Center Is Most Recent Removal |
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A house that was
for many years the parsonage for the Assembly of God Church (Preacher
C. H. Miller's house for decades for example) but more recently owned
by the adjacent First Baptist Church, was removed this past week. A Baptist
Church parking lot will soon be in that location (NW corner of 13th &
Center). |
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The house was already
torn down and mostly trucked away by the end of the day March 29th, 2012. |
I
only have cvilleok.com coverage of the last three houses removed from the now
First Baptist Church owned block between 13th-14th & Main-Center. There
were several more that were removed many years ago but were still residences
(near 14th facing Center) in this 1954 yearbook photo taken from the front steps
of the Collinsville Central High School (where the band room is now located
at the Middle School). -- Ted Wright
Based
on the drawing, there is one more house still slated to be removed for additional
parking. That house is on the North East corner of 13th Street and Center (south
of the Library) and has been used for church classrooms for several years. It
was built in 1917 for Sol Bayouth the same year the Library was built.
The
front porch of the remaining house can be seen in this 1962 (band) photo with
two house east of it that have also been removed in the past after being purchased
by the Baptist Church. The band is approaching 13th and Center (from the east)
in this photo with those homes facing south towards Center Street.
This
2010 aerial view show the two blocks (from the east) in relation to the nearby
Middle School, Library, Pharmacy & City Hall.