In March of  1907 The Elk City Record reported that the Ten Thousand Club would erect a new two-story brick building, in Elk City, as soon as a site was located.

The Ten Thousand Club was a commercial organization made up of Elk City business leaders who were dedicated to improving the community.   The name Ten Thousand Club reflected the charter of this organization to grow the population of Elk City to 10,000 residents.

In May 1907 the Ten Thousand Club acquired Lot #18 in Downtown Elk City from D.A. Meyer and J.N. Cook.  This lot was located at the corner of Jefferson and Broadway and was to become the building site of the Ten Thousand Club building.  The Ten Thousand Club building was completed and opened for club business in September 1907, two months prior to Oklahoma statehood and only five months after the property was acquired.  The September completion of construction makes this building a Territorial building

The German State Bank purchased the property and the Ten Thousand Club building in January 1908 and the bank opened for business with capital assets of $50,000 on February 1, 1908.  This new bank was the fourth bank to open in Elk City and the capital it provided was instrumental in the continued growth of Elk City

The German State Bank sold the building and lot on January 2, 1914 to J.N. Cook who then leased the building back to the Bank.  This lease had a specified duration of one year.

In 1915, J. G. Scott leased the lower floor of the “German State Bank” building , from S.J. Williams, for an unknown business.

Starting in December 1917, the United States Post Office leased most of the bottom floor of the Building for ten years.

W.M. Jefferson established a barbershop in the leased floor front room in November 1927 for a period of five years.

W.B. Hedlund purchased the Ten Thousand Club building from Silas J. Williams on June 13, 1929.

In 1943 the United States Government leased the entire 2^nd floor of the Ten Thousand Club building to be used as government apartments to support the military war activity taking place at Clinton-Sherman Air Force Base.  This lease was to run for 7 years but was dissolved early in June 1947, because of no further need.

Lloyd and Willie Davis purchased the Ten Thousand Club building from W.B. Hedlund in 1946.  They sold the building to Fredrick and Georgia Jackson in 1956.  The Jackson’s operated the Jackson Office Supply store at this site for several years.

The heirs of Fredrick and Georgia Jackson are Grant and Mike Jackson.  They sold the Ten Thousand Club building to Kerry and Maria Powell and Randy and Kandi Powell in December of 2002.  The Powell’s have restored this building to as close to its original design as possible, including adding the exterior balcony that had been previously lost, and by salvaging the tin ceiling on the lower floor.

The name of the building has been modified to the Ten-K Building.  The intent is to modernize the name while paying homage to the original Ten Thousand Club name.  Randy and Kandi Powell have moved the Apple Annies Gift Emporium from a previous location to the lower floor of the building and the upper floor is being used as office space.