Deco Tulsa

Skyline Soirée, Tulsa Foundation for Architecture’s annual fundraiser and one of Tulsa’s most distinctive evenings of the year. Ticket information below.

The Public Service of Oklahoma Building, 600 South Main Street, was designed by Arthur M. Atkinson and Joseph R. Koberling Jr. They built 48 second floor flood lamps sending vertical colored shafts up to the roof. There another 78 lights hidden in ornamental cornices created a golden crown. The torch-shaped light fixtures have the Art Deco designs of chevrons with step-backed geometrical patterns.

Original architect's illustration of the Public Service Company of Oklahoma Building, 600 South Main, from The American Architect and Building News, November 5, 1928. The office building opened on April 17, 1929 and estimated 7,000 people streamed through the building on opening night.

Explore the historic McGregor House designed by Bruce Goff at your own pace. Ticket information below.

"Designed by architect Frederick V. Kershner, the building is an exceptional example of Art Deco design, heavily influenced by Mayan temple architecture."

"The Halliburton-Abbott Building was built in 1929 at 5th & Boulder."

On August 24th, the Tulsa Fire Museum held a Light the Way Ceremony,
unveiling new Art Deco, stained-glass lanterns crafted by museum supporter Bob Workman.

The Stanolind/ARCO Building, 6th and Cincinnati, has marble used extensively in the lobby and in special color combinations. The walls of the lobby are of Italian marbles: Loredo Chiaro, or Breccia Aurora, from Lombardy, and trim of Red Alberato from near Verona. (📸: Bret Bradford).

The Service Pipeline building, 6th and Cincinnati, architectural illustration, circa 1948. The building was designed by Leon B. Senter and covers one quarter of a block. The University of Tulsa annex on Cincinnati, far right in illustration, was built to house the Law School and classrooms for other business courses. (Photo: Magazine Tulsa 1948).

The Service Pipeline/ARCO Building, 119 East 6th Street, northwest corner of Sixth Street and Cincinnati, opened in 1949. A section of the building housed the University of Tulsa College of Law beginning in 1949 with an entrance on the east Cincinnati Avenue side. The building also housed the downtown University of Tulsa division which moved to the Kendall campus in 1962. The Law School moved in 1973 to the Kendall campus.