Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
It became "the first full-service hotel" on Route 66 in Tulsa, when Route 66 was realigned to run along 11th Street in 1932. [2] Its listing on the National Register was consistent with two studies, in 1994 and 2003, which evaluated historic resources on Route 66 in Oklahoma. [3] [4] It is located at 2630 E. Eleventh St. in Tulsa. [note 1]
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.
US-62 continues eastward, sending US-62 BUS north to Snyder, which was the original US-62 alignment in the area. The county line then turns south of US-62, and the route has an interchange with US-183. US-62 heads farther east, meeting the other end of US-62 BUS 3 miles (4.8 km) [3] later.
Upon reaching the Broken Arrow Expressway (State Highway 51), US-64 splits off toward Downtown Tulsa, while US-169 continues north through east Tulsa. The next interchange US-169 has with another freeway is with I-44 ; 1.8 miles (2.9 km) to the north of this, it interchanges with I-244 .
Regional Map Tulsa serves as the economic engine [citation needed] of the region. Broken Arrow is the region's second largest city. Bartlesville is the Tulsa–Bartlesville CSA's third largest city and the only outlying community with skyscrapers. The Tulsa metropolitan area's anchor city, Tulsa, is surrounded by two primary rings of suburbs.
The hotel was sold at a liquidation sale and subsequently reopened under new ownership as the Adams Hotel. It was converted to the Adams Office Tower in the early 1980s. [ 1 ] The building is noted for its architecture and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) under Criterion C on November 7, 1977, with NRIS number 78002273.
Appropriately named the Tulsa Hotel, it began business in the winter of 1882. The hotel was managed by Mrs. Owen (aka "Aunt Jane") and until 1890, when it was leased and renamed the St. Elmo. [ 6 ] In 1892, Owen leased 80 acres (320,000 m 2 ) of his wife's Creek land to J. P. Goumaz, who built a home at Brady Street and Santa Fe Avenue.
Okmulgee is a city in the Tulsa metropolitan area and the county seat of Okmulgee County in Oklahoma, United States. [4] The name is from the Muskogee word okimulgi, which means "boiling waters". [5] The site was chosen because of the nearby rivers and springs. Okmulgee is 38 miles south of Tulsa and 13 miles north of Henryetta via US-75. [6]