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132 W Broadway St — “The Corner” IDENTIFIED

Lexington, OK 73051 · Cleveland County · researched 14 Sep 2026 · 35.014735, −97.336953

SummaryA 1,380 sq ft brick corner retail building on the state highway through downtown Lexington, Oklahoma. Vacant, partly built out for food and drink and then stopped. The owner will rent it for $950 a month or sell it for $189,000. This page is the research file: who owns it, what it cost, what the county says it is, and what the photographs show.

ProblemA small town's main street has buildings standing empty that one person could take on, and no assembled picture of any of them. The work of finding out what a building actually is — owner, deed history, taxes, condition, what it can be had for — is the part that stops people before they start.

ConceptDo that work once, in the open, and publish it. One building, one page, every fact sourced and dated, every unknown written as unknown.

Who it's forAnyone weighing a small commercial building in a small Oklahoma town — and anyone who wants to see what a finished research file on one looks like before doing their own.

StatusResearch complete 14 Sep 2026, including the owner's asking price and rent taken by phone the same day. Not under contract, no offer made. Open questions are listed at the foot of the page.

TagsLexington OK · commercial · main street · vacant · for sale · for rent · research file

How it was confirmed: the Cleveland County Assessor's own property-record photo for account 3368 shows this exact building — same “corner” lettering on the parapet, same brick, same corner siting. In the county's photo the long side wall carries a painted mural of three crosses and there are picnic tables on the concrete pad; in your photos the mural is painted out but the round brick planter with the crosses laid into its face is still standing. The door number in your first photo reads 132.

Your photographs

Storefront of The Corner from across W Broadway — **1 · The Broadway frontage, from across the street** The address side. “THE corner” hand-painted on a whitewashed parapet, with older ghost lettering still bleeding through to the left of it — an earlier sign under the paint. Two plate-glass windows and an aluminum entry door; the number on the glass reads 132. Brick painted red at the base, raw above. The FOR RENT card is taped inside the right-hand window. Beyond the building on the right: a steel carport canopy, the brick planter, and open lawn. Roughly 25 ft of frontage — which squares with the county's 1,380 sq ft over a 55 ft depth.

Side elevation and rear yard — **2 · The side wall and the side yard** The full depth of the building in one shot. Unpainted red brick, freshly repointed in places, painted red along the water table. A steel service door under a small shed canopy about two-thirds back, with a through-wall air conditioner beside it. Sheets of plywood or panel stacked against the wall at the rear. In the foreground, the round brick planter — look at the face and you can still see the crosses laid into the brickwork from when the church had it. Concrete apron wide enough to park on. Downtown storefronts visible at far left, across the street.

Open lot beside the building — **3 · The open ground beside it** Taken from the planter looking away from the building. Mown grass, one mature shade tree, a power pole, a wooden privacy fence and houses backing up to it, a car parked on the street at the right edge. Worth knowing: the parcel is only 7,000 sq ft, so most of what you see here is probably not part of this property — it needs a survey or a look at the plat to say where the line falls.

For rent sign in the window — **4 · The only marketing there is** A stock FOR RENT card, duct-taped to the inside of the glass, with a phone number written on in marker: **850-233-5658**. That is a Florida panhandle area code — Pensacola, Fort Walton Beach, Panama City. Not a local number, and not the owner's Lexington PO box. No agent, no sign rider, no listing anywhere online.

Interior looking along the side wall — **5 · Inside, looking down the long wall** Sealed concrete floor. Coffered tin-look ceiling tiles the whole way. Spiral exposed ductwork running the length with registers every few feet — a real commercial air system, not a couple of window units. Big ceiling fans. The wall is brick parged over in plaster and deliberately left raw. A step-ladder at the far end. No partitions, no fixtures, no floor covering.

Interior with the bar — **6 · The bar somebody started** An L-shaped service bar in cedar with corrugated-metal panels, a stainless drainboard sink beside it, a box of hardware still sitting on the top. Behind it a partition wall and a white six-panel door closing off a back room — likely where a restroom would be, though the county card says zero bathrooms. Track lighting on the back wall, electrical panel exposed on the left. Somebody was mid-buildout for food and drink and stopped.

Building from a truck on Broadway — **7 · From the road** Shot from a truck going by. The whole side elevation is parged and painted grey on this face; the red brick corner and the storefront are at the right end. Note what is around it: houses and lawn on this side, a black metal building and RVs parked beyond. This is the edge of downtown, not the middle of it — the last commercial building before the neighborhood begins.

Where it sits

Live street map — needs an internet connection to draw. Marker sits on the parcel at 35.014735, −97.336953.

Block diagram drawn from the county parcel list, not to scale. The subject is the west end of Block 55 — the corner of W Broadway (State Highway 39) and SW 1st St. Hence the name.

Orientation, as far as the evidence goes: the storefront carrying the number 132 faces W Broadway, and the county puts the parcel on Lots 15 and 16 — 50 ft of Broadway frontage running 140 ft deep. The building takes roughly half that frontage (1,380 sq ft over a ~55 ft depth works out to about 25 ft wide, which matches the photographs); the rest is the paved side yard with the canopy and the planter. Broadway through town is State Highway 39, so this is a highway-frontage corner, not a back street. Which compass wall is which is my reading of the photographs against the aerial — a plat or a survey would settle it.

Google satellite Street View OpenStreetMap Assessor record card Treasurer tax record County Clerk deed search

The basics

Address

132 W Broadway Stcorner of W Broadway (State Hwy 39) & SW 1st St

Owner of record

Massengale, Clifford L — Living TrustPO Box 327, Lexington OK 73051

Account / Parcel

3368LX57AAAOT 55 15001

Legal description

Lexington, Lots 15 & 16, Block 55

Building size

1,380 sq ft1 story, retail store

Land

7,000 sq ft0.16 acre — two 25×140 town lots

County market value (2026)

$70,306land $10,500 + improvements $59,348

Last sale

$67,50014 Sep 2024 — two years ago to the day

Asking price

$189,000owner Clifford Massengale, by phone to Mark Hope, 14 Sep 2026

Asking rent

$950 / monthsame call, 14 Sep 2026

Currently

Vacant, offered for sale or leasewindow sign only: 850-233-5658

Zoning

UnknownCity of Lexington does not publish it — one phone call

Who has owned it

Date	Price	Grantor	Grantee	Deed
14 Sep 2024	$67,500	Grace Chapel, Inc.	Massengale, Clifford L — Living Trust	WD — Bk 6712 Pg 1272
14 Jun 2017	$50,000	Massengale, Clifford L — Living Trust	Grace Chapel, Inc.	WD — Bk 5688 Pg 0744
15 Jan 2001	$0	Massengale, Clifford L	Massengale, Clifford L — Living Trust	WD — Bk 3228 Pg 752

A round trip: the Massengale trust sold it to the church in 2017 and bought it back seven years later for $17,500 more. The trust has held it since before 2001.

What the building is

Use code

0353 — Retail Store

Year built (county)

1973reads as an effective/remodel year — the brick, parapet and storefront are older

Quality / condition

Fair Plus / Fair

Walls

Frame with masonry veneer

Roof

Flat, DuroLast membrane

Foundation

Concrete slab

Cooling

Package unit

Baths

0 on the county cardphotos show a closed-off back room — verify in person

Taxes

2025 tax

$965.11paid 24 Feb 2026 by Clifford L Massengale

Balance due, all years

$0.002016–2025 clear, nothing delinquent

Total levy

111.09 millsCounty 18.96 / Lexington schools 80.88 / Vo-Tech 11.25

2018–2024

No tax billedconsistent with exempt church ownership

Last years under the trust before the church bought it: $497.00 (2017), $479.00 (2016), $448.86 (2015). The $965.11 for 2025 is it coming back onto the tax roll at commercial value.

The block it sits on

Address	Owner	County market value
108 W Broadway St	Minyard, Jerry C	$330,748
110 W Broadway St	B W, LLC	$20,000
114 / 116 W Broadway St	Chapman, David & Sharon	$75,765
118 W Broadway St	Grace Chapel, Inc.	$111,157
122 W Broadway St	Grace Chapel, Inc.	$188,566
128 W Broadway St	JOL Ltd Co, LLC	$68,446
132 W Broadway St	Massengale, Clifford L — Living Trust	$70,306
131 S Main St	City of Lexington	$336,001

Grace Chapel still owns the two buildings a few doors east — they kept the church and let the corner go. The Massengale family is long established on this street: Massengale's Furniture / TV & Appliance Rental operates at 100 E Broadway, a block east. The trust also owns 404 W Broadway and 609 E Broadway in town.

Marketing history

Listed on MLSOK as MLS #1196383 through Metro Mark Real Estate (Nichols Hills, OK, 405-848-8818). That listing is off the market now — the timing lines up with the Sept 2024 sale.
Not listed for sale or lease on any public portal. The taped-up window card is the whole campaign, which is why the numbers below came off a phone call and not a listing sheet.
14 Sep 2026 — the owner's own numbers. Mark Hope spoke to Clifford Massengale by phone. He wants $189,000 to sell it, and he is renting it at $950 a month.

What those numbers mean against the record

Asking price

$189,000owner, by phone, 14 Sep 2026

He paid, Sept 2024

$67,500recorded deed, Bk 6712 Pg 1272

County market value

$70,3062026 assessment

Gross rent, annual

$11,400$950 × 12, fully occupied

Gross yield at $189,000

6.0%before taxes, insurance, repairs, vacancy

Price per sq ft

$137$189,000 ÷ 1,380 sq ft

Stated plainly, because the gap is the story: the asking price is 2.7× what the owner paid for it two years ago and 2.7× the county's market value. Neither of those is an argument about what the building is worth — a county assessment is not an appraisal, and what a seller paid is not what a buyer should pay. They are simply the two other numbers on the record, and a buyer would want to know why the asking price sits where it does. The rent is a real, current number from the owner; the yield above is arithmetic on it, not a projection.

What “The Corner” was

No business record, listing, or news item for a business called The Corner at this address turned up anywhere. What the evidence supports: the church owned it for the whole 2017–2024 stretch, painted three crosses on the side wall, put picnic tables out on the pad, laid crosses into the brick planter, and the inside was fitted with a serving bar, a sink, ceiling fans and commercial ductwork. That reads as a church-run coffee house or gathering space rather than a licensed bar — but that is an inference, not a sourced fact. Grace Chapel's own website (gclex.org) is dead, so it could not be checked there.

Open questions, if you want them chased

Lease terms behind the $950 — length, who pays taxes, insurance and utilities, and what condition it is delivered in.
What the $189,000 is based on, and whether it moves.
Whether any of the open ground beside it conveys or leases with it.
Zoning and whether food and beverage is a permitted use — City of Lexington.
Whether there is a restroom behind that back wall, and what the water and sewer taps look like.
The pre-1973 history — there is older ghost lettering under the “corner” paint. The Lexington History Center or the Clerk's older deed books would have it.