Jim Thorpe House

The Jim Thorpe House is a historic house in Yale, Oklahoma.

Jim Thorpe House
Jim Thorpe House
Location706 East Boston Street,
Yale, Oklahoma
Coordinates36°6′48.9″N 96°48′38.02″W
Built1916
Architectural styleBungalow/craftsman
NRHP reference No.71000673 [1]
Added to NRHPMarch 24, 1971

In 1917, Jim Thorpe bought a small home in Yale, Oklahoma and lived there until 1923 with his wife, Iva Miller, and children, one of whom, Jim Jr., died at the age of two. The house was bought by the Oklahoma Historical Society in 1968 and is now listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The house is maintained by the Jim Thorpe Memorial Foundation as a small museum to Thorpe and contains related memorabilia.[1][2]

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