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Oak Grove Community House

United States historic place

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ28153653 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Oak Grove Community House in Oak Grove, Louisiana, also known as Oak Grove Legion Hut, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. The listing includes a Rustic-style Civil Works Administration-built American Legion hut and a park. The hut was built in 1932–33.

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The public source identifies “Oak Grove Community House” as united States historic place. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Grove, Community and House.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2016, 1932—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Grove, Community and House providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Oak Grove Community House”, the useful work is to connect “united States historic place” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q28153653. Authority coordinates are 32.865, -91.385. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2016 and 1932.

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This entry incorporates text from “Oak Grove Community House” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.