Downtown Tulsa Intensive-Level Historic Resources Survey

Rosin Preservation, LLC; Ambler, Cathy

Abstract: "This report presents the findings of the intensive level survey of Tulsa’s downtown buildings, sites, structures and objects within the Inner Dispersal Loop (IDL). The survey was undertaken by Cathy Ambler, Principal Investigator, Tulsa, and Elizabeth Rosin and staff of Rosin Preservation, Kansas City, Missouri. The survey, conducted between January and July 2009, expanded upon the reconnaissance survey completed during the summer of 2008. This report provides an analysis of the findings and describes the resources that have the potential to be eligible for the National Register of Historic Places, either individually or as contributing resources within a historic district. The survey inventoried 554 buildings, 363 sites, six structures, and one object. Of these resources, twenty-seven are presently listed in the National Register. Eighty-eight individual resources appear potentially eligible for individual listing in the National Register. The survey area includes fourteen potential historic districts, containing a total of 142 contributing resources and seventy-six non-contributing resources. Thirty-three resources have strong associations with Tulsa’s Urban Renewal program. Finally, the survey identified 298 buildings, structures and sites that do not appear eligible for register listing due to their age (less than fifty years old) or because they lack integrity. The inventory also included 353 parking lots and vacant lots. The report identifies the historic contexts used for determining eligibility and connects existing resources that share historical themes, time frames, and geographical areas." Project funding was provided in part by a 2008 Historic Preservation Fund grant to the City of Tulsa (project number OK-08-401) administered by the Oklahoma State Historic Preservation Office (grant number 40-08-21741) and the State, Tribal, and Local Plans and Grants Division, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.

Downtown Tulsa Intensive-Level Historic Resources Survey

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