Escoe Building

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Escoe Building
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location:	Muskogee, Oklahoma
Coordinates:	35°44′58.32″N 95°22′8″W / 35.7495333, -95.36889Coordinates: 35°44′58.32″N 95°22′8″W / 35.7495333, -95.36889
Built/Founded:	1908
Architect:	Escoe, W.T.
Architectural style(s):	No Style Listed
Added to NRHP:	July 14, 1983
NRHP Reference#:	83002094[1]
Governing body:	Private

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.^[2]

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