page_title: Pawnee Agency and Boarding School Historic District
section_title: Boys' Dormitory
hierarchical_section_title: Pawnee Agency and Boarding School Historic District / Contributing Buildings / Boys' Dormitory
caption_attribution_description: English: Boys Dorm East Side
context_page_description: The Pawnee Agency and Boarding School District lies east of the city of Pawnee in Pawnee County, Oklahoma. Other names are: Pawnee Indian Agency, Pawnee Indian School and Pawnee Indian Boarding School. The District occupies approximately 29 acres of the Pawnee Tribal Reserve, a 726 acres tract that is owned by the Pawnee tribe. Black Bear Creek divides the District from the town. The Pawnee Agency was established as a post office on May 4, 1876.
context_section_description: The existing building identified as the Boys' Dormitory was constructed in 1909, replacing an 1892 building destroyed by fire in 1904. This building is rectangular and two-and-a half stories high. The basement contained the furnace, a sitting room, a large closet, a washroom, and a toilet room. the first floor had rooms for matrons and assistants, an office, and a dormitory room. The second floor was primarily dormitory space. The original part of the building has a hipped roof, with a small gabled dormer at each end of the ridgeline. A hipped dormer, likely for ventilation, is centered low on the roof near the front roofline. The roof is now covered with composition shingles. A wood frame addition, identified as the "sleeping porch," was built on the rear of the original structure to house additional male students. A small stone annex, built in 1929 and connected to the sleeping porch by a frame passageway, housed the bath and washroom facilities (relocated from the basement).
  It is unclear when the Boy's Dormitory was permanently closed and the male students moved into the Girls' Dormitory Building. The Boy's Dormitory has remained unoccupied since then. Inspections have revealed serious roof leaks that have caused serious water damage. McGuire added that the building was in poor condition. She cited a report that said, "... the frame addition 'has suffered major water damage ', and '...roof and floor structures are rotted beyond repair.'" Her thesis continued by noting that the damaged addition would have to be removed and totally rebuilt. Also, the bathhouse roof would have to be replaced and the interior completely renovated.
caption: Boys' Dormitory (built 1909) Unoccupied for many years. Photo taken October 13, 2014.
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