text and photos by Lynne Rostochil unless otherwise stated. Most vintage photos from the Oklahoma History Center. In part two of our look at Oklahoma’s mod domes, we focus on perhaps the most famous dome in the state, the iconic Citizens State Bank at the corner of NW 23rd and Classen in Oklahoma City. Here […]
by Lynne Rostochil. Vintage photos, unless otherwise stated, courtesy of the Oklahoma History Center. “Now” images from Googlemaps, the OK County Tax Assessor, and Lynne Rostochil. If you’ve missed previous installments, click a link to read Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. In the last installment of our trek down 23rd from Lake Overholser […]
by Lynne Rostochil. Postcard from Lynne’s collection and brochure from Matt Goad’s collection. Of all of the mid-century modern treasures we’ve lost in Oklahoma City, I really lament losing the Plaza Tower Hotel the most. Maybe that’s because I remember driving by it quite a bit when I was a teeny tot and even then appreciating […]
by Lynne Rostochil Last week, I got to speak about Oklahoma’s mid-century modern architecture at the annual Oklahoma Preservation conference, which was held in lovely Enid this year. My topic was MCM Preservation Successes and Failures — fun stuff, except when I had to talk about the failures, of course. Here’s the presentation: […]
by Lynne Rostochil, vintage images from the OPUBCO collection at The History Center, modern-day images from the Narconon Arrowhead website Like Fountainhead, its sister lodge to the north on Lake Eufaula, Arrowhead Lodge was born amid controversy when the State of Oklahoma took out a $9 million federal loan to construct the two resort […]
by Lynne Rostochil (Bob Bowlby) Few Oklahoma buildings have been more beautifully designed — or more ill-fated — than the spectacular, crescent-shaped Fountainhead State Lodge on the eastern shores of Lake Eufaula. When the lake was completed in the early ’60s, state leaders decided that it would be a great idea to expand Oklahoma’s vast […]