McCaleb/Roosevelt
Original built in 1911 with replacement built in 1921; classes ended in 1930; sold by 1974
Roosevelt School (photo courtesy of BAHM)
The original McCaleb school was a barrack-type wooden frame building which opened in 1911 to serve first and second grade students in the zinc smelting community. It opened in 1911 and was named for Addison F. McCaleb, a prominent businessman in the early 1900s. He held 2,000 acres called McCaleb's Addition surrounding White Rose Cemetery in what was then south central Bartlesville.
In 1921 the district contracted with P. Phillips to build a school building in the McCaleb addition, at the corner of Oak Avenue and Eleventh Street, for $7,000. It sat between Oak and Maple Avenues one block east of the original wood-frame school. The two-room building was to originally house the first three grades and primaries but eventually only had first and second-grade classes. Originally called McCaleb school, it was renamed Roosevelt later in the 1920s after President Theodore Roosevelt, who had died in 1919.
In May 1930 classes ended as two of the three zinc smelters had closed. The building was remodeled at a cost of $3,000 around the same time the Carnegie Building was acquired by the district. It became the Roosevelt Administration Building, and reportedly served as a community center and the W.P.A. operated a sewing room in the building for several years. It no longer exists.