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The Tulsa Street Railway Company (TSR) was formed in 1905 by a group of 18 private investors, led by real estate developer Grant Stebbins. [4] By the end of 1906, TSR had electric streetcars operating downtown along Main, Third and Fifth Streets. [5] One reference states that the street car lines were completed even before the streets were ...
The Mayo Hotel was built in 1925, designed by architect George Winkler, and financed by John D. and Cass A. Mayo. [2] The base of two-story Doric columns supports fourteen floors marked with false terracotta balconies, and a two-story crown of stone and a dentiled cornice [3] At the time the 600-room hotel was the tallest building in Oklahoma.
The Gilcrease Expressway is a 16.7-mile-long (26.9 km) highway in Tulsa County, Oklahoma, United States. It is part of the county's long-term plan to complete an outer highway loop around Tulsa's central business district. The highway will connect Interstate 44 (I-44) in Sapulpa to I-244 near Tulsa International Airport.
Downtown Tulsa is an area of approximately 1.4 square miles (3.6 km 2) surrounded by an inner-dispersal loop created by Interstate 244, US 64 and US 75. [1] The area serves as Tulsa's financial and business district; it is the focus of a large initiative to draw tourism, which includes plans to capitalize on the area's historic architecture. [2]
The district, also known as Black Wall Street, was the site of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. On May 31 and June 1 that year, roughly 35 blocks of the nation’s most prosperous Black community ...
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Goodwill Industries is located in this area, as well as several companies supporting Tulsa's transportation industry adjacent to the BNSF Railway "Cherokee" railyard. West Tulsa Free Will Baptist Church [1] has been serving the area since 1946. The church offers H2O Teen Ministries for 6th through 12th grades, and CityKids Ministries for pre ...