text and photos by Lynne Rostochil unless otherwise stated. Vintage photos from the Oklahoma History Center and Lynne’s collection. During the Oklahoma Modernism Weekend, I put together a presentation devoted to the surprising number of domed structures scattered throughout Oklahoma to go along with a tour of the always fabulous Gold Dome. I thought I’d […]
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. Photos by Charlie Merida and Lynne Rostochil. (Charlie’s are the lighter images and Lynne’s are the darker ones.) One of OKC’s most interesting buildings has hit the market for the first time in nearly 20 years. The old Nuway Cleaners building at NW 31st and May was a rare multi-use project […]
text and photos by Lynne Rostochil Just 10 miles east of Woodward sits the tiny farming community of Mooreland. With just 1,200 people calling Mooreland home, I was more than a little surprised to find so much mid-century modern architecture in this small hamlet that covers less than a square mile. Let’s start with the fabulously Streamline […]
by Lynne Rostochil, vintage photos from the OPUBCO collection at the History Center, catalog and current-day photos from the author Some of my favorite childhood memories include spending part of my summers every year hanging out with my grandmother and volunteering with her on Tuesdays at the newly built Mercy Hospital in the gift shop. It […]
by Lynne Rostochil Last February, we profiled some of the great renderings of Oklahoma architecture that we’ve stumbled across over the years. Well, in the last year, we’ve found another batch of great drawings that you might be interested in, so take a look. Let’s begin with this stunning rendering that Mike Brown over at RetrOKC found at […]