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The Petroleum Building is a 50-meter/10-floor building at 420 South Boulder in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It was built in 1921, and is a steel and reinforced concrete structure faced with buff brick. The name was given because most of the early tenants were associated with the petroleum industry. Later, it housed the Mayo Brothers Furniture Company.
The company negotiated a deal with the Canadian government, allowing shipment from Canada, providing the company could verify the use of 40% Canadian materials and labor. The trucks required large quantities of steel, the majority of which was purchased from Canadian companies, and shipped to the Tulsa plant for fabrication and machining.
Flintco was founded in 1908 as Tulsa Rig, Reel, and Manufacturing Company (TRR). It served as a supplier of drilling and pumping equipment for the burgeoning oil industry. C.W. Flint became co-owner of TRR in 1919, and sole owner in 1935, expanding operations to include oil field lumber yards and the building of derricks.
The Golden Driller is a 76-foot-tall (23 m), 43,500-pound (19,700 kg) [1] statue in Tulsa, Oklahoma, depicting an oil worker. The structure is a steel frame covered with concrete and plaster. [2] It is the seventh-tallest statue in the United States and has been located in front of the Tulsa Expo Center since 1966.
According to a Tulsa World article, a Tulsa County District Judge ruled that the City of Tulsa and the Central Park Owners Association Inc. could foreclose on the Sinclair Building because the current owner was in arrears on $270,000 for taxes, fees and penalties. The sale could be sold at a sheriff's auction, after a 30-day appeal period ...
The Oklahoma Natural Gas Company Building is a historic building in Tulsa, Oklahoma, at 624 South Boston Ave. It was one of the first local Art Deco buildings built in the new Art Deco style, along with the Public Service of Oklahoma Building. This choice by the relatively conservative utility companies made the style acceptable in the city ...
Stevens & Wilkinson (Atlanta) and Black, West & Wozencraft (Tulsa) The 110 West 7th Building is a commercial high-rise building in Tulsa, Oklahoma . The building rises 388 feet (118 m), [ 1 ] making it the 7th-tallest building in the city, and the 14th-tallest building in the U.S. state of Oklahoma .
It is also a contributing property of the Oil Capital Historic District in Tulsa. [3] Initially named the Philcade, which was derived from the name of the owner, the building was renamed the Stanolind Building, after the company bought the building from Phillips in 1942. [4] Stanolind was a subsidiary of Standard Oil Company (Indiana).