by Lynne Rostochil. After the recent battles we’ve been facing trying to landmark the First Christian Church and save the Central National Motor Bank, it has been heartening to know that we’ve received the unconditional support of Preservation Oklahoma (POK). This isn’t the first time that POK has been a champion of Oklahoma’s mid-century modern […]
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 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 […]