First Cherokee Female Seminary site
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	Park Hill,Oklahoma, United States
Coordinates	35.867465°, -94.955904
Built	1851
Architectural style	Classical Revival
Demolished	1887
NRHP reference No.	74001658[1][2]
Added to NRHP	1973

Thefirst Cherokee Female Seminary was a boarding school opened by theCherokee Nation in 1851 inPark Hill, Oklahoma. On Easter Sunday 1887, a fire burned the building, but the head of the school, Florence Wilson, made sure all the girls got out. Two years later, in 1889, the newCherokee Female Seminary reopened and still stands just north ofTahlequah.^[3]

Today theCherokee Heritage Center stands on the grounds of the original Cherokee Female Seminary. The onlyClassical Revival architecture features to survive the 1887 fire, the school's columns still stand today and are surrounded by roses.

• Cherokee Male Seminary

• Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. OK-50, "First Cherokee Female Seminary, Tsa-La-Gi, Cherokee Cultural Center, 1 mile south of Tahlequah, Park Hill vicinity, Cherokee County, OK"

• Northeastern State University
• School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Oklahoma
• Education in Cherokee County, Oklahoma
• Cherokee Nation (1794–1907) buildings and structures
• Tribal colleges and universities
• Female seminaries in the United States
• Neoclassical architecture in Oklahoma
• Historic American Buildings Survey in Oklahoma
• National Register of Historic Places in Cherokee County, Oklahoma

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