text, current photos, matchcover, and playing cards by Lynne Rostochil. Vintage images by Bob Bowlby, Oklahoma History Center, and Julius Shulman. Today, the Okie Mod Squad group is mourning the loss of one of Oklahoma City’s most beloved buildings, the gloriously mod Founders National Bank located at May and United Founders Boulevard. It’s sickening to […]
text and photos by Lynne Rostochil unless otherwise noted. Riverside Studio photo by Tulsa People. Every year, Preservation Oklahoma (POK) releases its Most Endangered Places list and I’m both happy and sad to say that a lot of modern made the cut this year. It’s good because mod buildings are being recognized as valuable and […]
by Lynne Rostochil. Photos identified in captions. Resting atop a 25-foot bluff overlooking a rural granite quarry, the octagonal-shaped Joyce House looms large amid ancient boulders and expansive farmland outside of Snyder. (Julius Shulman) It took four tries for John and Evelyn Joyce to realize the house of their dreams. Three different times they consulted […]
by Lynne Rostochil. Vintage photos by Bob Bowlby, current-day photo by Lynne Rostochil. Nestled among the rolling hills surrounding the aptly named Oak Hills Golf and Country Club in Ada is a mid-century sub-division filled with low-slung ranch houses that seem to meander for entire city blocks and split-level wonders built precariously into steep slopes. […]
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 […]
by Lynne Rostochil. Vintage photos by Bob Bowlby, modern-day photos by Lynne Rostochil, blueprints courtesy Dr. Larson Keso. If you’re driving along NW 50th just west of Hefner Parkway, you’ve probably noticed what looks like a duo of cozy, pitched rock buildings hiding at the back of the lot behind tall, protective trees. If you’re like […]