Tulsa Ok Blue Dome Art Festival Artist Dennis Scott

The Arkansas River marks the sectionalization between Due west Tulsa and other regions of the city.

Tulsa is the second-largest urban center in the country of Oklahoma. It has many various neighborhoods due to its size.

Downtown Tulsa is an area of approximately one.4 square miles (3.vi km²) surrounded by an inner-dispersal loop created by Interstate 244, Highway 64, and Highway 75. The area serves every bit Tulsa's financial and business organization district, and is the focus of a large initiative to describe tourism, which includes plans to capitalize on the expanse'south historic compages. Much of Tulsa's convention infinite is located in downtown, such equally the Tulsa Performing Arts Heart, the Tulsa Convention Center, and the BOK Center. Prominent downtown sub-districts include the Blue Dome District, the Brady Arts Commune, the "Oil Capital Celebrated Commune", the Greenwood Historical Commune, Owen Park Historical Neighborhood, and the site of ONEOK Field, a baseball stadium for the Tulsa Drillers opened in 2010.

The city's historical residential cadre lies in an expanse known as Midtown, containing upscale neighborhoods congenital in the early 20th century with architecture ranging from art deco to Greek Revival. The University of Tulsa, the Swan Lake neighborhood, Philbrook Museum, and the upscale shopping districts of Utica Square, Cerise Street, and Brookside are located in this region. A large portion of the metropolis'southward southern half has adult since the 1970s, containing depression density housing and retail developments. This region, marked by secluded homes and suburban neighborhoods, contains one of the state's largest shopping malls, Woodland Hills Mall, likewise as Southern Hills Land Club, and Oral Roberts Academy.

East of Highway 169 and north of 61st street, a diverse racial makeup marks the eastern portions of the urban center, with big Asian and Mexican communities and much of the city's manufacturing industry.

Areas of Tulsa west of the Arkansas River are called West Tulsa, and are marked by large parks, wilderness reserves, and large oil refineries. The northern tier of the city is domicile to OSU-Tulsa, Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa International Aerodrome, the Tulsa Zoo, the Tulsa Air and Space Museum, and the nation's tertiary-largest municipal park, Mohawk Park.

Downtown [edit]

Tulsa includes many structures built during the Oil Boom in the 1920s and 1930s, including Fine art Deco buildings such as Boston Artery Methodist Church and Tulsa Matrimony Depot. Waite Phillips left a significant architectural impact on downtown Tulsa through the Philtower and Philcade Building. Other notable downtown Tulsa buildings include the Commutation Bank Building (today known as the 320 Southward Boston Building, the Cosden Building (later expanded into today's Mid-Continent Tower), Atlas Life Edifice, Holy Family Cathedral, Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church building, and the Mayo Hotel. Known for a fourth dimension every bit "Terra cotta City",^[1] Tulsa hosted the International Sixth Congress on Art Deco in 2001. The core downtown area was designated on the National Register of Historic Places every bit the Oil Capital Historic District in 2010.

Boston Artery Methodist Church

Downtown Tulsa is in the northwest quadrant of the city and is ringed by an expressway called the Inner Dispersal Loop. Downtown's buildings include many large office towers. At 667 ft (203 g), the BOK Tower (formerly Ane Williams Center) was the tallest building in whatever of the 5 "plains states" (Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Northward Dakota and South Dakota) until the Devon Tower in Oklahoma City was completed in 2012. The BOK Belfry was designed in 1975 past Minoru Yamasaki & Associates, the same architect who designed the Globe Trade Center in New York City.

The Tulsa Performing Arts Centre occupies a one-half metropolis cake in Tulsa'due south historical downtown. The PAC is also the pattern of Minoru Yamasaki. Information technology houses v theatres and a reception hall. More than than a quarter of a million people visit the Center each year to attend a performance from i of Tulsa's seven acclaimed musical and dramatic companies including the Tulsa Ballet, Tulsa Symphony Orchestra, Tulsa Opera, Theatre Tulsa, and a variety of symphonic groups. The PAC hosts a multitude of cultural events through the fall, wintertime and spring.

In 2005 the City of Tulsa broke ground on a xix,199 seat regional events eye designed by architect César Pelli. The arena was named the BOK Centre (or Bank of Oklahoma Center) and opened on Baronial thirty, 2008.

Blue Dome District [edit]

The Blue Dome, a one-time Gulf Oil Service Station, congenital in 1924.

Some other popular downtown entertainment district is the Blue Dome, named for a distinctive, domed building at Second Street and Elgin Avenue, in the area in the eastern section of downtown. The building was originally constructed in 1924 as a Gulf Oil service station. It has been converted to an information desk/part for the district, and is virtually two blocks s of the OneOK field.

Eastward Hamlet [edit]

The Lynn Riggs Theatre at the Dennis R. Neill Equality Eye in the E Hamlet

East Village comprises 115 acres bordered by Due east 2d and Due east seventh Streets, Detroit Avenue and Lansing Avenue, just within the inner-dispersal loop.^[2] This expanse boasts an upscale martini bar, American Theatre Company Studios, a pilus salon, a pet day care, photography studios, lofts, a knitting room and living arts district, amidst others. The cornerstone of this neighborhood is the largest LGBT customs center in Oklahoma, and fifth largest LGBT Center in the United States, the Dennis R. Neill Equality Center, endemic and operated by Oklahomans for Equality/OkEq (formerly Tulsa Oklahomans for Human being Rights/TOHR), with further development existence planned for more restaurants, residential lofts and retail. OkEq hosts Tulsa Pride each June in the East Village neighborhood.^[iii]

Oil Majuscule Celebrated District [edit]

Oil Capital Historic District looking east at Fifth and Master

The Oil Majuscule Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. It is divisional by Third Street on the north, 7th Street on the Due south, Cincinnati Avenue on the east and Cheyenne Avenue on the west. This surface area contains many of the celebrated Downtown role buildings constructed during the 1920s and 1930s.^[4]

Uptown [edit]

Riverview, along the Arkansas River in Tulsa

Riverview stretches along the east bank of the Arkansas River, just west of Downtown. Uptown is the region only to the s of Downtown. The SoBo (South Boston) bar district in this expanse at 18th and south Boston is quite popular. The Ambassador Hotel, at present listed on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Tulsa Canton, Oklahoma, was built in 1929 to provide temporary housing for businessmen and now functions every bit a boutique hotel. The edifice is at the corner of Chief and 14th Street. The Tulsa Preservation Commission identified this location as "...the Southeast Business Area of the Riverview department of Tulsa."^[v]

Buena Vista Park Celebrated District [edit]

The Buena Vista Park residential add-on, consisting of three blocks, was begun in 1908. Information technology was the start of what is now Buena Vista Park Celebrated District, which was listed on the U.Due south. National Register of Celebrated Places (NRHP) in 2007. The district now covers v acres (2.0 ha). Its period of architectural significance was 1913 - 1933. I of the supporting properties, the James Alexander Veasey House at 1802 Southward Cheyenne Avenue West, was added to the NRHP in its own right on July 27, 1989.

The Pearl District [edit]

The Pearl District is emerging every bit a cultural hub just due east of downtown. Once suffering from significant blight, The Pearl District has seen fervent restoration and new business development thanks to a concerted infill effort on the office of the City of Tulsa,^{[half dozen]} including new bars and restaurants, white collar small-scale offices and new residential buildings, with zoning designed to encourage mixed use and walkability.^[7] It is bordered by 1st street to the north and 11th street on the south, and lies side by side to Centennial Park to the west.

The Tulsa Fire Alarm Building at 1010 South Detroit, which has been unused for several years, is office of this district. The building was sold in July 2015. It will exist converted into a museum honoring Tulsa's firefighters. The museum is expected to open up in late 2015 or 2016. The Pearl Commune also contains The Church Studio, a erstwhile church that Leon Russell turned into a recording studio and the focal signal of the Tulsa Sound music movement during the 1970s.^[8]

Riverview Historic District [edit]

Riverview is bounded on the n by twelfth and 13th Streets, on the east past the alley between Denver and Elwood Avenues, on the south by Riverside Drive and 14th Place, and on the west by Jackson Artery. The name came from Riverview Simple Schoolhouse, which was at twelfth and Guthrie. Although the schoolhouse building was demolished in 1975, the district retained its proper name. This area contains houses and flat buildings constructed between 1911 and 1938.

Included are several structures that are individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places.^[9]

• McBirney Mansion (NRIS 76001577)
• Patrick Yard. Kerr Firm
• Clinton-Hardy House (NRIS 79002027)
• Nellie Shields Jackson House
• Bird House
• Riverside Studio (NRIS 01000656)

Midtown [edit]

Midtown is a largely residential district in the heart of the city. This area consists mostly of homes built from the early 1900s to the 1950s and has a wide multifariousness of American styles ranging from the Craftsman bungalow to the ranch-style dwelling to Greek Revival. The neighborhood is fifty-fifty domicile to a relocated saltbox home from colonial New England. Schools in this office of the metropolis include Bishop Kelley, Edison Preparatory Schoolhouse, Eliot Uncomplicated, Francis Scott Key Elementary, Monte Cassino, Council Oak Elementary, Patrick Henry Elementary, Wright Elementary and Undercroft Montessori and Hoover Unproblematic. Woodward Park, located in Midtown, is known for its azaleas and gardens and is a pop destination for photography and picnics. Other popular Midtown Parks include Swan Lake, Zink Park, Darlington Park and Whiteside Park.

Utica Square, Tulsa's kickoff suburban shopping centre, is an upscale outdoor center with a mix of locally owned retailers, including Miss Jackson's, Tulsa's oldest department shop, and national chains. Adjacent to Utica Foursquare is Temple State of israel, a Reform Jewish congregation housed in a building by prolific synagogue architect Percival Goodman, and Cascia Hall Preparatory Schoolhouse, a college preparatory schoolhouse at present too known as a cardinal location in the fantasy/horror House of Night novel series written by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast. Tulsa's conservative synagogue, B'nai Emunah, is also located in Midtown.

A courtyard in Utica Foursquare

Some of the other major shopping centers in this part of the urban center include the Promenade Mall, Highland Park Shopping Center, Southroads, Ranch Acres, The Farm Shopping Center, and The Plaza. OU-Tulsa is across the street from the Promenade Mall at 41st and Yale, on the southern edge of Midtown.

In northeast Midtown, the Tulsa Land Fairgrounds, now called Expo Foursquare, is dwelling to several Tulsa landmarks. In addition to the site being the former habitation to the minor league baseball Tulsa Drillers, the Art Deco Expo Square Pavilion, the Fair Meadows equus caballus racing rails, and the annual Tulsa State Fair, it boasts the Quick Trip Expo Heart, the largest clearspan building in the globe, providing 354,000 square feet (33,000 m²) of column-complimentary space under a cablevision-suspended roof. In front of the Expo Center is the Gilt Driller, standing 76 anxiety (23 one thousand) alpine. Congenital in 1966 as a symbol for the International Petroleum Expo, the statue serves as a reminder of Tulsa'south oily by.

The Expo Center is also home to the annual Darryl Starbird Rod and Custom Bear witness. Held in early on February, it is touted every bit 'The Globe'south Largest Indoor Car Show' and oft draws effectually 1,500 custom and classic cars, trucks, and motorcycles. Antique auto auctions are too held here and describe many visitors from across the nation.

Arkansas River Parks [edit]

The Tulsa expanse boasts well-nigh 40 miles (64 km) of river shoreline along the Arkansas River. River Parks lines more than 20 miles (32 km) of that stretch, spread along both banks of the ane/iv mile wide channel and connected by a pedestrian bridge between 21st and 31st streets. River Parks is a popular destination for outdoor recreation. Miles of asphalt-surfaced recreation trails weave by picnic areas, playgrounds, fountains and sculptures. The park's landscape ranges from manicured lawns to the rugged terrain of the Turkey Mountain Urban Wilderness Area. Recreation in River Parks includes angling, rowing, kayaking, disc golf, hiking, biking and horseback riding.

During the jump, summer, and early on fall, concerts, festivals and the state'south largest free fireworks display (on the Fourth of July) are popular draws to the river. The festival park on the river'due south westward bank is the site of Tulsa'southward Oktoberfest, one of the oldest and largest in the U.Southward.

Cherry Street [edit]

The Reddish Street District is set near downtown in the northern midtown expanse, defined by a portion of 15th Street dubbed "Cherry-red Street." 15th Street has been a major east-west thoroughfare in Tulsa since This street was named Cherry Street prior to the early 1900s, when a metropolis ordinance mandated a numerical street proper noun. The eastern and western boundaries of the nowadays-mean solar day district are rather vaguely defined in common usage. A 1992 commodity in the Tulsa World stated that the district extends from Peoria Artery on the westward to Utica Artery on the eastward.^[10] The northern and southern boundaries of this informal district are obviously undefined.

South Quaker Avenue intersects Cherry Street one block due east of Peoria. The 1400 block of Due south Quaker contains five houses of historical interest considering they represent the style of homes constructed during the very early 1920s. The most notable is known as McGregor House at 1401 Southward Quaker, at the intersection of Quaker and 14th street. It is a 1-1/2 story Prairie Style house designed about 1920 by Bruce Goff, so a 15-twelvemonth-sometime apprentice with the Rush, Endacott and Rush architecture firm. The house was listed on the National Register of Celebrated Places (NRHP) under Criterion C - Architecture, with registration number 10001011.^[11]

Visitors to this neighborhood can find many local restaurants, boutique shops, art galleries, antiquarian shops, funky vintage stores, and fifty-fifty a scooter shop now filling sometime storefronts built in the 1920s & 1930s, likewise as some notable onetime homes in the surrounding residential areas. Numerous condos have been built in contempo years just north of Reddish Street. Cherry Street is surrounded by four of Tulsa's designated Historic Districts: the Swan Lake, Due north Maple Ridge, Gillette and Yorktown neighborhoods. Other neighborhoods side by side to Carmine Street are Florence Park, Tulsa and the Renaissance neighborhood.

Skelly Mansion, Maple Ridge

Maple Ridge and Sunset Terrace [edit]

The Maple Ridge Celebrated District is just s of downtown in Midtown. This neighborhood contains 'Blackness Gold Row', contains mansions built by oil barons in the 1920s. Harwelden Mansion is located there.

Dusk Terrace is located side by side to Maple Ridge on its South Side, Terwilleger Heights on its Due east Side and the Arkansas River to the West. Information technology is traversed by the thou Woodward Boulevard, which links Maple Ridge to Brookside. Dusk Terrace contains many mansions congenital in the 1920' and 1930s.

Big Craftsman, North Maple Ridge

Brookside [edit]

Brookside, similar Cherry Street, is another popular shopping and amusement district in Midtown. This area extends from the Arkansas River eastward to Lewis Avenue and due south to 51st Street/Interstate 44. Its defining strip is Due south Peoria between 31st and I-44, which is a popular commercial surface area with various upscale shops, boutiques, and art galleries, too as 35 restaurants and nightspots (many with patio seating) spanning a broad diverseness of cuisines and dining styles. Breathtaking Riverside Drive, which parallels the east bank of the river, and River Parks, the park that stretches along the riverbank, are also pop sections of Brookside.

Lortondale [edit]

This is a subdivision of modern homes along South Yale Artery well-nigh 26th Street. Based on a chief program past Tulsa builder Donald Honn, the low-pitch roofs and clean lines of the houses typify the style known as Mid-Century Modern, and the neighborhood was the city's first housing development with a community pool. Construction began in 1953 and all Lortondale homes featured central heating and air conditioning—reportedly the first such subdivision in the nation.^[12]

Ranch Acres [edit]

Recognized as a historic neighborhood, Ranch Acres was added the National Register of Celebrated Places in 2007. The neighborhood is an excellent example of a post-Earth War Two ranch business firm subdivision. The surface area is situated primarily between 31st and 41st Streets along South Harvard.

Patrick Henry [edit]

The Patrick Henry Neighborhood was developed during the Fifties and Sixties and situated between Harvard and Yale at 41st Street south I-44. Patrick Henry is made up of ranch-style homes known for their open floorplans and large lots. Many of these homes were featured on the annual Parade of Homes tours that featured new and modern designs.

Highland and Whiteside Park Surface area [edit]

This area takes its proper name from the two larger neighborhood parks lying within it. The homes in this area are mostly ranch-manner homes, some with pronounced mid-century modern design cues. It area overlaps with the Patrick Henry neighborhood, extending East of Yale Avenue to Bishop Kelley High School. Mockingbird Lake is in this neighborhood.

Although the neighborhood is primarily residential, information technology is also home the Tulsa Schusterman campus of University of Oklahoma (including the OU School of Community Medicine) and several commercial developments (most notably Tulsa Promenade).

Kendall-Whittier [edit]

To the due east of downtown is Tulsa's oldest suburban shopping area and is noted for its affluence of cherry brick. The cocked, historic, and recently restored Circle Cinema is located in this area. The Kendall-Whittier shopping expanse and surrounding neighborhoods are now popular with Tulsa's chop-chop growing Hispanic community. Merely east of this area is the University of Tulsa.

For a copy of the Kendall Whittier Neighborhood Masterplan developed by the neighborhood in partnership with the City of Tulsa delight get to: http://www.cityoftulsa.org/Community/Revitalization/documents/KW%20Neighborhood%20Masterplan%2011142006.pdf

Swan Lake Historic District [edit]

Swan Lake is a historic district whose borders consist of 15th Street to the Northward, Utica Street to the East, 21st Street to the South, and Peoria Avenue to the west. This surface area was originally named Orcutt District for the landowner, and the lake was originally a cattle watering place.^[13] It was the site of an amusement park in the early twentieth century, but is now notable for the number and architectural multifariousness of houses and flat buildings constructed in the 1920s and 1930s.

Terwilleger Heights [edit]

Terwilleger Heights is located immediately south and westward of Utica Square bordered by 21st Street, 31st Street, Utica Avenue and Peoria Avenue. This area has early 1930s homes both thou and small, mature and many newly planted trees, winding streets and is adjacent to the Philbrook Museum of Fine art and Woodward Park, site of the Tulsa Rose Garden.

Renaissance [edit]

Renaissance neighborhood is between 11th Street (Road 66) and 15th Street and Lewis Artery on the west to Harvard Avenue on the east with Delaware Artery cut through the center. The University of Tulsa is but north of 11th St. on the east side of Delaware. It's a mix of 1920s bungalows and 1930s revival style houses with houses of other eras mixed in, from very new to a few pre-20s houses that were moved from the site of Central High School (now the PSO HQ) in the mid 20s. Renaissance is also a mix of unmarried family homes and a number of duplexes and the eastward side of Delaware has housed many TU students over the years. Renaissance has an active neighborhood association.

Florence Park & Florence Park Southward [edit]

Florence Park & Florence Park South neighborhoods runs from Harvard Avenue on the east, to the Broken Pointer Superhighway on the south & w, and stops at 15th Street on the northward. There'due south a particularly good mix of 1920/30s houses, mostly revival styles, and two of midtown Tulsa'due south start neighborhoods to exist re-discovered and appreciated after the lx/70s flight to suburbia.

White City [edit]

White City is a residential neighborhood in Midtown, Tulsa, Oklahoma. It is divisional on the n by second Street, on the eastward past Fulton Avenue, on the south by 11th Street and on the w by Yale Avenue. The neighborhood was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. The surface area includes 480 buildings, of which 325 retain their historic significance. 2 parks are besides included in the listing.^[14]

Northside [edit]

Tulsa's north side originally referred to the area north of the Frisco Railroad tracks upwardly to the northern city limits. It was annexed by the metropolis of Tulsa in 1904.^[15] The due north side is abode to a large percent of Tulsa'due south African-American community in addition to working-class Tulsans of other races and ethnicities. The area's Booker T. Washington Loftier Schoolhouse, Tulsa's African-American high school during the segregation era and at present a magnet school, was recently judged to be the 58th all-time high schoolhouse in the nation by Newsweek. Northeast of downtown, close to Tulsa International Airport, is Mohawk Park, which includes the Tulsa Zoo and the Oxley Nature Middle, and the Tulsa Air and Space Museum. This area is also home to the American Airlines maintenance facility, i of Tulsa'due south largest employers.

"Black Wall Street:" The Greenwood Historical District [edit]

The Greenwood Historical District is merely north of downtown and east of the Brady Commune. Information technology was one time one of the most affluent African-American communities in the United States and referred to as Black Wall Street. In 1921, 30-5 blocks of businesses and residences were burned in this district during the infamous Tulsa Race Massacre, the bloodiest incident of racial violence in the history of the Us. The Oklahoma Legislature passed laws in 2001 aimed at revitalizing Greenwood, setting up a scholarship fund for higher-leap descendants of the victims and appropriating $two meg for a memorial. As of 2004, two blocks of the one-time neighborhood accept been restored and are part of the Greenwood Historical District. Information technology is now home to the Greenwood Cultural Heart, the Tulsa Race Massacre Memorial, and the John Hope Franklin Center for Reconciliation, as well as Oklahoma State Academy - Tulsa and Langston University. As well in the district as of 2021 is the Greenwood Rising History Heart.

The Arts District [edit]

The Arts District is located due north across the Santa Fe Railroad tracks from the central business district and centered at Chief Street & Brady Artery. The Brady Commune is one of Tulsa'southward oldest areas, characterized by ii-story brick warehouses.

The Tulsa Theater, built between 1912 and 1914, was originally designed to serve as the city'southward 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 every bit the city auditorium in 1979 by construction of the Performing Arts Heart in downtown, "the Old Lady on Brady" continues to be used today for a wide variety of concerts and theatrical productions.

North of The Tulsa Theater on Main Street is the Cain's Ballroom, formerly the garage of the Brady family^[16] and the home of Bob Wills and his band, the Texas Playboys. The district is likewise the location of many local artists' galleries, restaurants with late nighttime hours, confined and dance clubs. It is besides an emerging gay neighborhood, with several gay or gay-friendly bars and numerous supportive shops and restaurants.

Today, The Arts District is one of the nigh various areas in all of Tulsa. It hosts restaurants, clubs, museums, and businesses and is a prime example of urban living. There is presently construction which volition more than double the number of permanent residents in this artistic enclave. The neighborhood's renaissance got a significant boost in late 2012 with the opening of Guthrie Greenish, a public garden and outdoor stage, on a fundamental plot of land formerly inhabited past commercial buildings. Guthrie Greenish has quickly emerged equally a neighborhood focal point, hosting community events, live music and a farmers marketplace.^[17]

The district and the street were originally named for W. Tate Brady, an early Tulsa business concern owner and active civic promoter. Still, Tate Brady'due south involvement as a leader in the Tulsa Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s led to residents expressing their wish that the proper noun be changed, and on Baronial xv, 2013, the City Council voted to retain the street name, but instead officially honor Ceremonious War lensman Mathew Brady.^[18] Street signs have since been changed to reverberate the official street proper name as "M.B. Brady St."^[19]

Brady Heights Historic District [edit]

Brady mansion on Due north Denver Avenue

Brady Heights is a historic district in Tulsa, Oklahoma named for early resident, W. Tate Brady. Its boundaries are Marshall Street on the n, the alley between Cheyenne Avenue and Chief Street on the east, Fairview Street on the due south, and the Osage Expressway right-of-style on the westward. From territorial days until the 1920s, Brady Heights was an of import part of the then-stylish n side of Tulsa. Young professional businessmen and oil men, like Thou. Y. Vandever, I. S. Mincks and "Diamond Joe" Wilson, endemic homes there.

North Cheyenne Historic District [edit]

The North Cheyenne Historic District is bounded on the north by an alley between Archer and Brady Streets, on the east by the alley betwixt Bedrock and Cheyenne avenues, on the Due south by the Frisco railroad tracks and on the west by Due north Denver Avenue. Information technology was a commercial and industrial area that developed during the early twentieth century. Co-ordinate to the Tulsa Preservation Committee, the district "...was added to the National Annals of Historic Places on December 13, 2010 under Benchmark A for significance in commerce. Its NRIS number is 10001011."^[20]

Owen Park [edit]

The history of the Owen Park neighborhood tin exist traced to the early 19th century. A clarification of the area was given by Washington Irving in his book, Tour of the Prairies. A monument in Tulsa's Owen Park denotes the point where the lands of the Osage, Creek and Cherokee nations met. The kickoff American settler was Chauncey Owen, husband of a Creek woman who qualified for a land allotment. This country later on became the Owen Park neighborhood. Its borders are Edison Avenue on the due north, the municipal Owen Park on the east, the Keystone Expressway (Hwy 412) on the south, and Zenith Avenue on the w. Owen Park is a rapidly gentrifying historic neighborhood that has historic mansions and Craftsman style homes. It is one of the closest neighborhoods to the Brady District and downtown Tulsa.

Gilcrease Museum [edit]

Gilcrease Museum chief entrance

Northwest of downtown on the Osage Indian Reservation is the Gilcrease Museum, considered by many to be the finest Western American and American Indian fine art collection in the globe. Thomas Gilcrease was a member of the Creek nation who became very wealthy afterward the discovery of oil on his allotment. He invested much of his wealth in fine art, and opened a gallery on his estate in northwest Tulsa in 1949. He deeded the art collection, building and grounds to the City of Tulsa during the mid-1950s.

Phoenix District [edit]

Sharon Hanson, president of the North Star Neighborhood Association, approached an official in the Mayor'southward office and money was put in the budget for the 36th street north corridor. The community chose the Phoenix District equally the new name. The Phoenix District is the home of the OU Physicians Wayman Tisdale Specialty Clinic.

Southside [edit]

Tulsa's south side is popularly considered to be s of the Skelly Bypass (I-44), bounded on the south by the city of Bixby, on the west by the Arkansas River and the city of Jenks, and on the east past the city of Broken Arrow.^{[ commendation needed ]} Many new luxurious homes have been constructed here in the last few decades, as well as numerous apartments, in various price ranges. Land in the area is condign deficient, all the same, and evolution at present has begun to spread to neighboring Jenks and Bixby to the s and west, too equally Cleaved Arrow to the east. As a more than affluent demographic has moved into the area, businesses tailored to such residents take likewise opened nearby. The metropolis's largest automotive dealer strips are located along S. Memorial Dr. from 91st to 101st Streets and from 51st to 31st Streets. The Riverwalk Crossing Shopping Middle, simply over the river in Jenks at 96th st. includes a picture palace, fine dining, and shopping. Nearby lies the Oklahoma Aquarium, the only one in the state of Oklahoma. Local freshwater fish are complemented by a fine selection of saltwater animals, including sharks. The Karl and Beverly White National Fishing Tackle Museum has over 20,000 pieces valued at more than $4 million. This exhibit makes upwardly the largest and most comprehensive antique angling tackle collection in the world.

St. Francis Hospital and its surrounding medical practitioner's offices is located at 61st and Yale and is 1 of the largest in the state. Prominent in that surface area of town is the upscale Braeswood neighborhood, East 61st to 63rd Streets and Louisville to Oswego Avenues.^[21] Another healthcare cluster exists around Southward 91st and Mingo, including Hillcrest Hospital South, Cancer Treatment Center of America and Saint Francis Infirmary South. Woodland Hills Mall, the largest in the state anchors the 71st street corridor. Numerous dining options are bachelor in the area. Additionally, shopping centers surrounding the mall are panoramic in scope, every bit the options for shopping are seemingly endless. Information technology is in this area that the four-star John Q. Hammonds Renaissance Hotel is located, including conference and meeting rooms. It is located correct off U.s.a. 169, a major north-south highway in eastern south Tulsa. This road curves to the west at around 96th street and soon turns into the Creek Turnpike, a toll road that has been extended to the west to I-44 and to the east to I-44, virtually forming a semi-round loop around southern Tulsa and its surrounding suburbs. The schools in the surface area are some of the state'southward largest, including Jenks and Spousal relationship High Schoolhouse, with neighboring Broken Arrow existence the largest. Tulsa Public School's Memorial High Schoolhouse is located here, along with prestigious, individual Holland Hall. Jenks, and Union Loftier Schools are annually among the best in the state and nation in football and their rivalry has drawn national attending. Tulsa Customs College, the largest 2-year school in the state, has its Southeast campus off 81st and U.s.a. 169. Parks in the area include LaFortune Park, with 2 public golf courses, playgrounds, swimming pool, and jogging trail, Hunter Park, with a disc golf game class, jogging trail, playground, and angling swimming, and the Riverparks, which extend south to 101sts St.

Some of the largest and nearly influential churches in the country in Tulsa are in this part of Tulsa, including Victory Christian, Kirk of the Hills Presbyterian, Asbury United Methodist, South Tulsa Baptist and Grace Church.

Southeast Tulsa [edit]

Southeast Tulsa is generally considered equally south of 41st St Southward and east of Due south Sheridan Rd, all the way to the Bixby and Broken Arrow city limits. Union Schools service most of these residents, with a handful of neighborhoods existence served by Tulsa Public Schools and Broken Arrow Public Schools (further eastward). Neighborhood Parks, soccer fields, sports fields, and public pools can exist plant inside the expanse. There are multiple corporate offices and other business concern in the surface area that staff large work forces. A big diversity of shopping and eating-out opportunities tin be found in southeast Tulsa. The expanse provides easy access to I 244, I 44, Hwy 169 (Mingo Valley Exp), The Creek Turnpike, and the Broken Arrow thruway. Such easy access makes it quick for driving to desired locations and businesses in Downtown, Midtown, Southside, Westside, the Airport, all the major shopping/amusement areas of the metropolis, and to the outlying cities of Broken Pointer, Owasso, Bixby, and Jenks. The surface area offers housing congenital from the early 1970s to the present.

The historic and now largely abased community of Alsuma, Oklahoma lies in this area. Alsuma was annexed by Tulsa in 1966, and is at present listed as a ghost boondocks.^[22]

Southern Hills [edit]

Southern Hills is an sectional neighborhood on the due south side that is centered on the Southern Hills State Club at 61st and Lewis. Southern Hills State Club has hosted 13 major golf game championships including four U.S. Opens. Many of the original homes in this neighborhood are sprawling suburban homes built in the ranch manner.

Eastside [edit]

Tulsa's east side is a suburban-style area laying roughly eastward of Sheridan Road, north of 41st St S, and south of Tulsa International Aerodrome. Synthetic largely in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, attractions in this office of the city include McClure Park, which is notable for its disc golf course, the Carl Smith Able-bodied Complex, and the popular Admiral Twin Bulldoze-In movie theatre. There is also a large portion of Route 66 on Tulsa's east side. Areas that fall in Union and Broken Pointer School districts are increasingly alluring loftier-income professionals looking for suburban life within the city limits. Mayo Demonstration Academy, a magnet school of the Tulsa Public School system, is located in this area. Eastgate Metroplex and East Primal Loftier School are also in this surface area. Also the expanse is home to Tulsa's Eastern hospitality district, where many hotels are located.

Due east Tulsa is also abode to growing Mexican-American and Vietnamese-American populations (the latter centered around St. Joseph Vietnamese Catholic Church).

Redbud Valley Nature Preserve is also located in this function of the city.

Westside [edit]

Communities of Tulsa'due south west side in urban center limits are Cherry Fork, Carbondale, Garden City, and Turkey Mount. Other communities considered a part of the westward side, only located in Creek Canton, are Oakhurst, Oakridge, and Allen-Bowden.

West Tulsa is another reminder of Tulsa'southward oil-rich past. Two oil refineries remain in functioning to this day on the westward bank of the river. This large industrial area gives manner to wooded and hilly neighborhoods. The classic art deco Webster High School is here, as is the pop train-themed Ollie's Station Restaurant, sitting next to the Tulsa rail k. Other schools in W Tulsa include Berryhill High School, Robertson Simple, Park Uncomplicated and Clinton West Elementary. Webster is the oldest existing high school facility in Tulsa, and has an active alumni association. Portions of Route 66 laissez passer through west side. The area is broken up into several sections, including Carbondale and Cherry-red Fork, among others.

The Riverparks system, also here on the bank of the river, includes the Riverwest Festival Park, with its floating stage amphitheater overlooking downtown. Riverwest is abode to such popular events as Tulsa'due south Oktoberfest, i of the largest of its kind in North America, and the Gatesway Balloon Festival.

Tulsa's westside is also home to The Oaks Country Society, one of Tulsa'due south 3 major state clubs, and Inverness Village, a big retirement customs. In addition to these companies, Camp Loughridge, a Christian Summer Military camp operates on 186 acres of land in West Tulsa.

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