Downtown Tulsa is an area of approximately 1.4 square miles (3.6 km2) surrounded by an inner-dispersal loop created by Interstate 244, US 64, and US 75. The area serves as Tulsa’s financial and business district and is the focus of a large initiative to draw tourism, which includes plans to capitalize on the area’s historic architecture. Much of Tulsa’s convention space is located downtowns, such as the Tulsa Performing Arts Center, the Tulsa Convention Center, and the BOK Center. Prominent downtown sub-districts include the Blue Dome District, the Tulsa Arts District, and the Greenwood Historic District, which includes the site of ONEOK Field, a baseball stadium for the Tulsa Drillers that opened in 2010.
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Tulsa includes many structures built during the Oil Boom in the 1920s and 1930s, including Art Deco buildings such as the Mid-Continent Tower, Boston Avenue Methodist Church, and the Exchange Bank Building (today known as the 320 South Boston Building). In addition, oilman Waite Phillips left a significant architectural impact on downtown Tulsa through the Philtower and Philcade buildings. Other notable Tulsa, OK buildings include the Atlas Life Building, Holy Family Cathedral, Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, and the Mayo Hotel, the former of which once served as home to J. Paul Getty. Known for a time as “Terra Cotta City,” Tulsa hosted the International Sixth Congress on Art Deco in 2001.
Downtown Tulsa is in the city’s northwest quadrant and is ringed by an expressway system called the inner dispersal loop. Downtown buildings include many large office towers. At 667 ft (203 m), the BOK Tower (formerly One Williams Center) was the tallest building in any of the 5 “plains states” (Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota) until the Devon Tower in Oklahoma City was completed in 2012. The BOK Tower was designed in 1975 by Minoru Yamasaki & Associates, the same architect who designed the World Trade Center in New York City. Bed Bug Exterminator Tulsa
The Tulsa Performing Arts Center occupies a half-city block in Tulsa’s historic downtown. The PAC is also the design of Minoru Yamasaki. It houses five theatres and a reception hall. More than a quarter of a million people visit the Center annually to attend a performance from one of Tulsa’s seven acclaimed musical and dramatic companies, including the Tulsa Ballet, Tulsa Symphony Orchestra, Tulsa Opera, and a variety of symphonic groups. In addition, the PAC hosts many cultural events in fall, winter, and spring.
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The Brady Theater, built between 1912 and 1914, was initially designed to serve as the city’s municipal auditorium and was simply called “Convention Hall” for the first forty years of its life and was one of three internment camps where African Americans were detained after the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot. In 1952, major additions were added, and the building was renamed Tulsa Municipal Theater. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. Supplanted as the city auditorium in 1979 by the construction of the Performing Arts Center downtown, “the Old Lady on Brady” continues to be used today for various concerts and theatrical productions.
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