Wolleson-Nicewander Building

Wolleson--Nicewander Building
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	615 Delaware St., Perry, Oklahoma
Coordinates	36°17′15″N 97°17′12″W / 36.2875°N 97.28666°WCoordinates: 36°17′15″N 97°17′12″W / 36.2875°N 97.28666°W
Area	less than one acre
Built	1900
NRHP Reference #	79002004[1]
Added to NRHP	May 16, 1979

The Wolleson-Nicewander Building, also known as the Triton Insurance Company Building, was built in 1900, and is within the Perry Courthouse Square Historic District. Its builder, T. E. Wollenson, was a sailer and merchant from Denmark, and included several naval motifs on the building (photos below). It is two stories, constructed of red brick and sandstone, in a Richardsonian Romanesque style. The second story has arches and lintels, supported by colonnettes.

The building was first occupied by T. E. Wollenson; Mr. Nicewander later had a clothing store there, followed by N. C. Chapman who had a dry goods store, and then by P. Scobill who had a tire and auto supply store. In the 1960s the building became the headquarters of the Triton Insurance Group. The company redecorated the outside and inside of the building, including adding a huge map of the state of Oklahoma, still visible on its east side (photo below) The Triton Insurance Group left Perry in 1974.^[1][2]

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  South and east facades.

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  Lion's head on a colonnette. Each colonnette uses a different figure.

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  Another colonnette figure, each meant to evoke a ship's prow.

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  Large Oklahoma map painted on the east facade.

References

1. Staff (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
2. Ramirez, enrique (September 1, 1978). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form: Wolleson-Nicewander Building" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved December 22, 2014. and one photo