Clapp-Cunningham Building (Chandler Library)

1021 Manvel Ave, Chandler, OK
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The Chandler Public Library has occupied the historic 1899 Clapp-Cunningham Building since 1992. The buidling was constructed as a project built for L.W. Capp, a Kansas politician. Originally the Star Store and a bank operated on the ground floor. In 1920 the first floor was occupied by an automobile dealership and a feed store.

The second floor housed offices for doctors and lawyers and others. A stairway between the two main spaces on the ground floor leads to the second floor. That stairway shows what may be the only prominent change in the appearance of the building. Originally the stairway was open as far as a landing and double doors halfway up, that was the case until sometime after 1984.. Today there are doors to the stairway on the ground floor level.

A. B. and Myrtle Cunningham bought the building in 1926 and added a three story hotel on the back. The hotel catered to oil-field customers with room for 55 overnight guests

A sign above the library entrance reads "Clapp Building, Est. 1899" The building was placed on the NRHP in 1984

Photo(s): 2016