Art Deco Tulsa

Transformed from a cattle depot into the Oil Capital of the World, Tulsa emerged as an iconic Jazz Age metropolis. The Magic City attracted some of the nation's most talented architects, including Bruce Goff, Francis Barry Byrne, Frank Lloyd Wright, Joseph R. Koberling Jr., Leon B. Senter and Frederick Kershner. Like their brazen oil baron clients, they were not afraid to take chances, and the city still reflects the splendor of that fabulous era. Writer Suzanne Wallis and photographer Sam Joyner celebrate the city's enduring Art Deco legacy and its daring revival.
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Art Deco Tulsa

Transformed from a cattle depot into the Oil Capital of the World, Tulsa emerged as an iconic Jazz Age metropolis. The Magic City attracted some of the nation's most talented architects, including Bruce Goff, Francis Barry Byrne, Frank Lloyd Wright, Joseph R. Koberling Jr., Leon B. Senter and Frederick Kershner. Like their brazen oil baron clients, they were not afraid to take chances, and the city still reflects the splendor of that fabulous era. Writer Suzanne Wallis and photographer Sam Joyner celebrate the city's enduring Art Deco legacy and its daring revival.
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Transformed from a cattle depot into the Oil Capital of the World, Tulsa emerged as an iconic Jazz Age metropolis. The Magic City attracted some of the nation's most talented architects, including Bruce Goff, Francis Barry Byrne, Frank Lloyd Wright, Joseph R. Koberling Jr., Leon B. Senter and Frederick Kershner. Like their brazen oil baron clients, they were not afraid to take chances, and the city still reflects the splendor of that fabulous era. Writer Suzanne Wallis and photographer Sam Joyner celebrate the city's enduring Art Deco legacy and its daring revival.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781625859891
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date: 05/07/2018
Series: Landmarks
Pages: 160
Sales rank: 290,165
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author


Suzanne Fitzgerald Wallis and her husband, Michael, moved to Tulsa in 1982. Their working partnership has extended beyond the public relations firm they founded and has produced a number of books on Route 66, including Songdog Diary: 66 Stories from the Road (Council Oak Books, 1996) and The Art of Cars (Chronicle Books, 2006). They have led tours along America's Main Street for Smithsonian Institution, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Harley-Davidson Motor Company, University Center at Tulsa, Philbrook Museum Friends of Native American Art and Tulsa Foundation for Architecture.

Retired as United States magistrate judge in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Sam Joyner has studied with master photographers across the country during the past twenty-five years, from the Ansel Adams Photography Workshop in Yosemite to the Maine Photographic Institute in Rockport. He received Best of Show at the 1995 Lawton Arts for All Festival and his photographs have been published in Nimrod International Literary Journal.

Table of Contents

Foreword: Living on Tulsa Time Michael Wallis 7

Acknowledgments 15

Part I Magic City 17

What Is Art Deco? 19

Oil Capital of the World 24

Risk Takers 28

Waite Phillips 29

Visionaries 32

Bruce Alonzo Goff 34

Part II Terra Cotta City 41

Zigzag 45

Adah Robinson Residence: 1927-29 45

Oklahoma Natural Gas Company and Public Service Company of Oklahoma: 1928 46

Divine Deco (Boston Avenue Methodist Church and Christ the King): 1929 49

Eleventh Street Bridge: 1929 58

Halliburton-Abbott Building: 1929 61

Riverside Studio (Spotlight Theatre): 1929 62

Warehouse Market: 1929 66

Westhope: 1929 69

Gillette-Tyrrell Budding (Pythian): 1930 70

Milady's Cleaners (La Maison, Inc.): 1930 73

Philcade: 1931 74

Tulsa Municipal Airport: 1932 77

Public Works Administration 78

Tulsa Union Depot: 1931 78

Tulsa Fire Alarm Building: 1934 81

Will Rogers High School: 1938 83

Streamline 86

John B. McGay Residence: 1936 88

Tulsa Monument Company: 1936 88

Holland Hall/Boulder on the Park: 1947 89

Newspaper Printing Corporation: 1947 89

Part III Lost and Found 91

From Bust to Boom 93

Herb Fritz: Deco Warrior 100

Part IV Echoes of Deco 103

The Legacy Lives 105

William Franklin 111

Appendix: Tulsa Art Deco Chart 115

Notes 127

Bibliography 131

Index 137

About the Author 143

About the Photographer/Photography Manager 144

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