Tulsa's Deco Gems
How an Oklahoma city fell in love with art deco and never really got over it
Posted June 26, 2008 | Published by Preservation Online, DC, Oklahoma
It may come as a surprise to learn that Tulsa is one of the nation's premier centers of art deco architecture, putting it in the classy company of Miami Beach, New York, and Los Angeles. The style was hugely popular here from the outset and remained so through several evolutions—as the geometrically ornamented structures of the 1920s gave way to the simpler and more heroic public architecture of the Great Depression and then to the sleek streamline moderne of the later 1930s.
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