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Historical surveys of Oklahoma cities and towns
The Oklahoma Historical Society has been scanning and posting documents from their archives, and there is a page full of links to architectural and historical surveys of Oklahoma cities and towns. The surveys were mainly conducted over the past 20 years, often by teams of students led by an architectural...
1967 Tulsa USGS aerial photos
Tulsa history expert Paul Uttinger pointed me to a couple of amazing U. S. Geological Survey (USGS) aerial photos from 1967. It captures an interesting point in time, as land was beginning to be cleared for I-244 and the Inner Dispersal Loop. Tulsa had, about a year earlier, tripled its...
Bits of Tulsa history for sale: architectural salvage, antiques
Received this in email and thought it might be of interest to BatesLine readers who are interested in historic preservation and local history. The sale runs three of the next four weekends, 10 am to 4 pm. Reclamation Station LLC 412 So. Frankfort, Tulsa, OK Pam Curtis, proprietor YEARS OF...
Small area planning kickoff, Tuesday, February 28, 2012
The City of Tulsa Planning Department will officially launch three small area plans this coming Tuesday night, February 28, 2012, at 6 p.m., at the Greenwood Cultural Center, 322 N. Greenwood Ave, in Tulsa. (Doors open at 5:30, the program will go from 6 to 7, followed by Q &...
Historic preservation amendment deserves Tulsa Council support
Updated, May 9, 2011: Scroll down for commentary on the outcome of the vote. Tomorrow night, Thursday, May 5, 2011, the Tulsa City Council will vote on a very simple, crystal clear, eleven-word-long amendment that fixes a loophole in our zoning code, a loophole that endangers the investment that homeowners...
PLANiTULSA rescheduled
The three PLANiTULSA small area workshops, postponed because of the ice storm, have been rescheduled for this coming week. Two more will be held the following week, along with a special workshop on transport. Here are the specifics: Tues., Feb. 17, Southwest Tulsa, Webster High School, 1919 W. 40th St....
Midtown Tulsa on endangered historic places list
Midtown Tulsa is on Preservation Oklahoma's 2008 list of the state's most endangered historic places. Details will be released later tonight, along with the other locations on the list. Here's the Preserve Midtown press release: Midtown Tulsa has been placed on Oklahoma's Most Endangered Historic Places List for 2008. On...
Forum on neighborhood conservation districts Monday night
For nearly ten years, I've been urging Tulsa to enact a neighborhood conservation district ordinance. Sometimes they're called urban conservation districts or some other name, but these zoning districts are aimed at ensuring that new development in an established neighborhood is compatible with existing development. Unlike a historic preservation district,...
Final 2006 Tulsa city election filings
Here's who filed for Tulsa city offices today, the final day of the filing period. Mayor: Northside neighborhood activist James Alexander Jr. (Democrat), James Oliver Desmond Jr. (Democrat), Benford L Faulk (Independent), County Commissioner Randi Miller (Republican), Paul C. Tay (Independent). Council: District 1: Roger Lowry (Democrat -- Lowry was...
Shrinking our historic preservation zones
Tonight the Tulsa City Council will consider a zoning change to remove some lots from the Yorktown historic preservation overlay (HP) district. These lots are part of the new Arvest Bank development under construction on the southwest corner of 15th and Utica. They'll also consider a major amendment to the...
Chipping away
I've been watching the TMAPC rebroadcast from last Wednesday. The hearing had to do with removing historic preservation (HP) zoning from a part of the Yorktown HP district in order to make way for parking for a new Arvest Bank. The lesson to be learned from this and all other...
Where's all the Tulsa stuff?
I've laid off the Tulsa blogging today -- other news has caught my attention -- but I'll get back to it tomorrow. In the meantime, Bobby of Tulsa Topics has been blogging about more shabby treatment inflicted on a neighborhood association, with the aid of the neighborhood's own city councilor....
Help fight for historic preservation
HFFZ also relays contact information for Yorktown Neighborhood, which is fighting rezoning of a lot in a historic preservation district for a bank parking lot. They'd like homeowners from all of Tulsa's historic preservation zoning districts to speak at the TMAPC hearing on Wednesday, February 2, at 1:30 p.m. in...
A stay of execution for a historic home
Good news at 15th and Utica: Tulsa Preservation Commission denied a request to demolish a home in the Yorktown historic district and turn it into parking for a new Arvest Bank branch. The bad news is that this is really only a stay of execution. The TPC can only delay...
Historic non-preservation
There's a story in Sunday's Whirled (starts here, jump page here) about a revival of plans to build a new Arvest Bank branch on the southeast corner of 15th and Utica. The dispute isn't so much about the bank building itself, which will sit on the site of the old...
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