Before long, Tulsa became the “Oil Capital of the ... Several long-standing Art Deco buildings, designed in accordance with the style of bigger cities at the time, have been rehabilitated ...

But one of the largest collections of Art Deco architecture in the world, probably not. When oil was discovered in the area in the early 1900s, the people of Tulsa found a way to show off their ...

TULSA, Okla. — New York, Miami Beach and Los Angeles are usually the first cities that to come to mind when one thinks of art deco architecture. But Tulsa? It may come as a surprise, but Tulsa ...

Designing downtown Tulsa’s last major art deco office building, local architect Leon Senter and interior designer Ellis Foster searched the world for exotic types of marble to create a different ...

Soon, oil moguls were commissioning office buildings to poke from the Tulsa skyline and architects embraced art deco. Explore the downtown Deco District, rich with Tulsa history, via a tour with ...

Built in 1929 and designed by B. Gaylord Nofstger, Tulsa’s Warehouse Market Building is unmistakingly Art Deco with its geometric patterns and symmetrical design. Once a marketplace for farmers ...

Tulsa houses two world-renowned art museums, a full-time professional opera and ballet companies, and one of the nation's largest concentrations of art deco architecture.

the Boston Avenue United Methodist Church sits on the edge of downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma. It is known as one of the few art deco buildings designed by a woman, artist Adah Robinson, although this ...