List of Art Deco buildings in Tulsa, Oklahoma
Encyclopedia

Zigzag Style

Zigzag Style
ImageBuildingDateArchitectNotes
Eleventh Street Arkansas River Bridge, U.S. Highway 66 over the Arkansas River 1916-17, Modified 1929 Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co., Harrington, Howard & Ash Listed on National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...

Southwestern Bell Main Dial Building, 424 South Detroit Avenue 1924, Modified 1930 I. M. Timlin Listed on National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...

|Day Building (Nelson's Buffeteria), 512 South Boston Avenue 1926 Bruce Goff
Bruce Goff
Bruce Alonzo Goff was an American architect distinguished by his organic, eclectic, and often flamboyant designs for houses and other buildings in Oklahoma and elsewhere.-Early years:...

|Fawcett Building (Stanolind/Amoco), 515 South Boston Avenue 1926 Leon Senter
|Tulsa Club, 115 East 5th Street 1927 Rush, Endacott & Rush, Bruce Goff
Bruce Goff
Bruce Alonzo Goff was an American architect distinguished by his organic, eclectic, and often flamboyant designs for houses and other buildings in Oklahoma and elsewhere.-Early years:...

 
Medical and Dental Arts Building, 108 West 6th Street 1927 Arthur M. Atkinson, Joseph R Koberling Demolished
|Page Warehouse, 408 East 13th Street 1927 Rush, Endacott & Rush, Bruce Goff
Bruce Goff
Bruce Alonzo Goff was an American architect distinguished by his organic, eclectic, and often flamboyant designs for houses and other buildings in Oklahoma and elsewhere.-Early years:...

Demolished
Adah Robinson Residence, 1119 South Owasso Avenue 1927–1929 Bruce Goff
Bruce Goff
Bruce Alonzo Goff was an American architect distinguished by his organic, eclectic, and often flamboyant designs for houses and other buildings in Oklahoma and elsewhere.-Early years:...

Oklahoma Natural Gas Building, 624 South Boston Avenue 1928 Arthur M. Atkinson, Frederick V. Kershner Listed on National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...

|Christ the King Church, 1530 South Rockford Avenue 1928 Byrne & Byrne, Francis Barry Byrne
|Guaranty Laundry, 2036 East 11th Street 1928 Bruce Goff
Bruce Goff
Bruce Alonzo Goff was an American architect distinguished by his organic, eclectic, and often flamboyant designs for houses and other buildings in Oklahoma and elsewhere.-Early years:...

 
|Skelly Building Addition, 23 West 4th Street 1928 Bruce Goff
Bruce Goff
Bruce Alonzo Goff was an American architect distinguished by his organic, eclectic, and often flamboyant designs for houses and other buildings in Oklahoma and elsewhere.-Early years:...

Demolished
|Bliss Hotel, 123 South Boston Avenue 1929 L. I. Shumway Demolished 1973
Boston Avenue Methodist Church
Boston Avenue Methodist Church
The Boston Avenue United Methodist Church, located in downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma and completed in 1929, is considered to be one of the finest examples of ecclesiastical Art Deco architecture in the United States, and has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places...

, 1301 South Boston Avenue
1929 Disputed, Adah Robinson and Bruce Goff
Bruce Goff
Bruce Alonzo Goff was an American architect distinguished by his organic, eclectic, and often flamboyant designs for houses and other buildings in Oklahoma and elsewhere.-Early years:...

 credited
National Historic Landmark
National Historic Landmark
A National Historic Landmark is a building, site, structure, object, or district, that is officially recognized by the United States government for its historical significance...

Public Service of Oklahoma, 600 South Main Street 1929 Joseph R. Koberling Listed on National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...

|Riverside Studio, 1381 Riverside Drive 1929 Bruce Goff
Bruce Goff
Bruce Alonzo Goff was an American architect distinguished by his organic, eclectic, and often flamboyant designs for houses and other buildings in Oklahoma and elsewhere.-Early years:...

Listed on National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...

Westhope
Westhope
Westhope, also known as the Richard Lloyd Jones House, is a Frank Lloyd Wright designed Prairie School home that was constructed in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1929. Richard Lloyd Jones was Wright's cousin and the publisher of the Tulsa Tribune....

, 3704 South Birmingham Avenue
1929 Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright was an American architect, interior designer, writer and educator, who designed more than 1,000 structures and completed 500 works. Wright believed in designing structures which were in harmony with humanity and its environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture...

Listed on National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...

|Midwest Equitable Meter, 3130 Charles Page Boulevard 1929
|Halliburton-Abbott Clothing Company Building (Sears/Skaggs), 500 South Boulder Avenue 1929 Frank C. Walter Demolished and replaced by OneOK Building.
|Genet Building (American Airline Building) 1930 Noble, Fleming, Joseph R. Koberling Demolished, 1969
Warehouse Market, 925 South Elgin Avenue 1930 B. Gaylord Noftsger
|Gillette-Tyrell Building, 423 South Boulder Avenue 1930 Edward W. Saunders Listed on National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...

Milady's Cleaners, 1736-38 East 11th Street 1930
|Merchant's Exhibit Building, Tulsa State Fairgrounds 1930 Bruce Goff
Bruce Goff
Bruce Alonzo Goff was an American architect distinguished by his organic, eclectic, and often flamboyant designs for houses and other buildings in Oklahoma and elsewhere.-Early years:...

Demolished (collapsed into abandoned coal mine)
|National Supply Company (U-Haul), 504 East Archer street 1930
Philcade, 511 South Boston Avenue 1931 Leon B. Senter Listed on National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...

|Marquette School, 1519 South Quincy Avenue 1932
Tulsa Municipal Airport Administration Building, 6600 East Apache Avenue 1932 Demolished
Fire Station #13, 3924 Charles Page Boulevard 1931 Albert Joseph Love
|Shakespeare Monument, Woodward Park Adah Robinson, Eugene Shonnard
/Users/steve/Desktop/Living Arts on Brady Again.JPG Westinghouse Warehouse (Bedcheck) (Living Arts in 2009)

PWA Style

PWA Style
ImageBuildingDateArchitectNotes
Eleventh Street Arkansas River Bridge, U.S. Highway 66 over the Arkansas River 1916-17, Modified 1929 Listed on National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...

|Oak Lawn Cemetery Entrance Gates, 11th and Peoria c. 1930
Tulsa Union Depot
Union Depot (Tulsa, Oklahoma)
The Tulsa Union Depot is a former railway station located in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It was formerly a hub for railway activity in Tulsa, but has since been turned into an office building...

, 3 South Boston Avenue
1931 New Home of the Oklahoma Jazz Hall Of Fame, circa 2007. Often referred to as "Jazz Depot".
|Animal Detention Center (Tulsa SPCA), 2910 Mohawk Boulevard 1931
Fairgrounds Pavilion
Expo Square Pavilion
The Expo Square Pavilion, sometimes called simply The Pavilion, and formerly known as the Tulsa Fairgrounds Pavilion, is a 6,311-seat multi-purpose arena, in Tulsa, Oklahoma.It was built in 1932; the architect was Leland I Shumway...

, Tulsa State Fairgrounds, now known as Expo Square Pavilion
1932 Leland I. Shumway
Tulsa Fire Alarm Building
Tulsa Fire Alarm Building
The Tulsa Fire Alarm Building is a historic Art Deco building at 1010 East Eighth Street in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It was built in 1931 and served as the central reporting station for the Tulsa Fire Department. Fires were reported from alarm boxes spread around town to this building and the firemen in...

, 1010 East 8th Street
1934 Frederick V. Kershner Listed on National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...

 Current home to American Cancer Society
American Cancer Society
The American Cancer Society is the "nationwide community-based voluntary health organization" dedicated, in their own words, "to eliminating cancer as a major health problem by preventing cancer, saving lives, and diminishing suffering from cancer, through research, education, advocacy, and...

|Union Bus Depot, 319 South Cincinnati Avenue 1935 Demolished
|Daniel Webster High School
Webster High School (Tulsa, Oklahoma)
Daniel Webster High School is a high school in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It is part of the Tulsa Public Schools, and is a public school for students from grades 9 through 12. The school opened in 1938 in the West Tulsa section of the city, and is housed in a PWA-style Art Deco building designed by...

, 1919 West 40th Street
1938 Arthur M. Atkinson, John Duncan Forsyth
John Duncan Forsyth
John Duncan Forsyth was a Scottish-American architect who became prominent in Oklahoma. Based in Tulsa and working in a variety of styles, he was connected with a number of significant buildings around the state.-Biography:...

, Raymond Kerr, and William H. Wolaver.
Will Rogers High School
Will Rogers High School
Will Rogers High School, located on 3909 E. 5th Place in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was built by Tulsa Public Schools in 1939 using WPA workers and designed by Joseph R. Koberling, Jr. and Leon B. Senter. It was named for the humorist Will Rogers, who died in 1935 along with Wiley Post in a plane crash...

, 3909 East 5th Place
1938 Joseph R. Koberling
|Oklahoma Department of Transportation (Empire Roofing), 1709 East King Place 1940
|National Guard Armory, 3902 East 15th Street 1942
|Hawks Ice Cream Co., 2415 E. 11th Street 1948
|Service Pipeline Building (ARCO Building), 520 S. Cincinnati 1949

Streamline Style

Streamline Style
ImageBuildingDateArchitectNotes
|Holland Hall School Building (Boulder on the Park ) 1923, remodled 1947 Listed on National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...

|Mid Continent Oil Co. Station, 2102 South Utica 1931 Demolished
|Marathon Oil Co. Station, 201 North Boston Avenue 1931 Demolished
|Lerner Shop, 419 South Main Street remodeled ca. 1931
|KVOO Transmitter Station, 15050 East 11th Street 1932 Demolished
|Cities Service Oil Co. Station, 1502 East 11th Street 1932
William D. Whenthoff Residence, 1142 South College Avenue 1933 Joseph R. Koberling
|T. N. Law Residence, 1841 East 27th Street 1935 Demolished
|Palace Theater, 118 S. Main Street Remodeled 1935 Joseph R. Koberling Demolished, 1973
|G. C. Pride Residence, 2103 E. 3rd St. Remodeled 1935 Joseph R. Koberling Demolished
|Texas Oil Co. Service Station, 2501 Southwest Boulevard 1936 Demolished
|Jesse D. Davis Residence, 3231 South Utica Avenue 1936
J. B. McGay Residence, 1551 South Yorktown Place 1936 Joseph R. Koberling
Tulsa Monument Company, 1735 East 11th Street 1936 Harry H. Mahler
|Silver Castle Restaurants, 15th & Peoria, Admiral & Lewis, 6th & Main, 113 E. 10th, 11th & Indianapolis, 3rd & Denver, 5600 E. 11th, 2341 S. Quannah, 3240 E. Admiral Pl. 1936-40 Ora Overholzer Art Deco Streamline Demolished
|Burtner N. Fleeger Residence, 2827 South Birmingham Place 1937
|John Duncan Forsyth
John Duncan Forsyth
John Duncan Forsyth was a Scottish-American architect who became prominent in Oklahoma. Based in Tulsa and working in a variety of styles, he was connected with a number of significant buildings around the state.-Biography:...

 Residence, 2424 East 29th Street
1937
|Security Federal, 120 West 4th Street remodeled 1937 Demolished
|Whitlock's Grocery, 2623 East 11th Street 1937 Demolished
|John Leroy Shakley Residence, 7219 South Evanston Avenue 1937 Demolished
|Howard J. Sherman Residence, 7228 South Evanston Avenue 1937
|Delman Theater, 2335 East 15th Street 1938 Demolished
|Skelly Oil Company Station, 829 S. Denver Ave. 1938 Demolished
|Arnold Ungerman Residence, 1718 East 37th Street remodeled 1941
|People's State Bank, 2408 East Admiral Boulevard 1941 Demolished
|Will Rogers Theater, 4502 East 11th Street 1941 Demolished
|City Veterinary Clinic, 3550 South Peoria Avenue 1942 Joseph R. Koberling
|Midwest Marble and Tile, 507 South Quaker Avenue 1945
|Brook Theatre, 3307 South Peoria Avenue 1945
|Century Geophysical Corp., 6650 East Apache Avenue 1946
Day and Nite Cleaners, 1012 S. Elgin Ave 1946 William Wolaver
|Town and Country Restaurant, 3301 S Peoria 1946
|Phoenix Cleaners, 125 East 18th Street 1947
|Newspaper Printing Corp. Office, 317 South Boulder Avenue 1947
|Morrow Geophysical Building, 3345 South Harvard Avenue 1948 Architecturally lost. Remodeling has removed Art Deco elements.
|Parkcade Parking Garage, 2nd Street and Boston 1949 Henry R. Lohman Construction Company Demolished, 1973
|Mayo Motor Inn, 416 South Cheyenne Avenue 1950
|Baehler Brothers Service Station, 3702 South Peoria Avenue 1950
|Big Ten Ballroom (American Beauty), 1632 East Apache Street 1950
|Southwestern Bell Branch Office (The Browns School), 1333 N. Utica

Deco Moderne Style

Deco Moderne
ImageBuildingDateArchitectNotes
Fire Station #7, 601 South Lewis Avenue 1947 Joseph R. Koberling
|KVOO Radio Station, 3701 S. Peoria (KJRH
KJRH
KJRH-TV, virtual channel 2, is the NBC-affiliated television station in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It is owned by The E.W. Scripps Company. KJRH broadcasts from its studios in the Brookside district in midtown Tulsa on South Peoria Avenue and its transmitter is located in Oneta, Oklahoma.The station...

)
1946
|Fire Station #3, 1339 East 1st Street 1948 John Wesley Robb Demolished 1966 for I-244
Fire Station #16, 1401 North Lewis Avenue 1948 John Wesley Robb
Fire Station #15, 4162 East Admiral Street 1948 Hanton and Wilson
Fire Station #14, 3602 South Lewis Avenue 1950 Joseph R. Koberling
Fire Station # 17, 1351 North Sheridan 1953 Hanton and Wilson
Fire Station #3, 1013 East 3rd Street 1909 remodeled 1948
|Home Federal Savings (BOK), 31st and Harvard 1956 Koberling and Brandberg
|KVOO Television Studio (KJRH), 3701 S. Peoria 1956 Koberling and Brandberg

Art Deco Revival

Revival
ImageBuildingDateArchitectNotes
MTTA Downtown Transfer Center, 4th and Denver 1999
|Myers-Duren Harley Davidson, 4848 S. Peoria 1999
The source of this article is wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.  The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
 
x
OK