{{Short description|Architectural style used on the campus of the University of Oklahoma}} [[Image:University of Oklahoma July 2019 69 (Bizzell Memorial Library).jpg|thumb|right|250px|Bizzell Memorial Library]] '''Cherokee Gothic''' is a term coined by Frank Lloyd Wright for a vernacular architectural style used on the campus of the University of Oklahoma.<ref>{{cite book|last=Turner|first=Paul Venable|title=Campus: An American Planning Tradition |year=1984|publisher=The MIT Press|location=Cambridge, Massachusetts}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Gumprecht|first=Blake|year=2007|title=The campus as a public space in the American college town|journal=Journal of Historical Geography|volume=33|pages=72–103 |doi=10.1016/j.jhg.2005.12.001}}</ref> The term was invented by Wright while on a tour of the school's grounds, and, when coined, applied to Bizzell Memorial Library and Evans Hall.<ref>{{cite news|title=These Walls: Bizzell Memorial Library in Norman, Oklahoma|last=Carter|first=M. Scott|date=16 November 2009|publisher=The Journal Record}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=OU among top historic college campuses|last=Journal Record Staff|date=15 November 2015|publisher=The Journal Record}}</ref> These buildings combined conventional Gothic Revival architecture with Native American elements.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Ziolkowski|first=Jan M.|title=The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity, Volume 3: The American Middle Ages|publisher=Open Book Publishers|year=2018|isbn=978-1-78374-522-7|location=Cambridge, UK|pages=1965|language=en}}</ref> The buildings were constructed in dark and pale bricks and featured a decorative Gothic facade with light-gray stone buttresses and statues.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Provine|first=Jeff|title=Campus Ghosts of Norman, Oklahoma|publisher=The History Press|year=2013|isbn=978-1-62584-688-4|location=Charleston, SC|language=en}}</ref>

More recently, new construction under former university president David Boren have been designed to resemble and evoke the earlier Cherokee Gothic buildings. Buildings in the style resemble Collegiate Gothic structures found on other campuses, although they are made from brick and light stone.

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Category:Gothic Revival architecture in Oklahoma Category:University of Oklahoma buildings and structures Category:Cherokee in popular culture

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