Oklahoma Natural Gas Company Building

Oklahoma Natural Gas Company Building
Oklahoma Natural Gas Company Building aka The 624 Boston Building
Oklahoma Natural Gas Company Building
Location: Tulsa, OK
Built: 1925
Architect: Kirshner, Frank V.; Atkinson, Arthur M.
Architectural style: Art Deco
Governing body: Private
NRHP Reference#: 84003458 [1]
Added to NRHP: April 10, 1984
The lobby of the ONG Building is a premier example of the Zigzag style of Art Deco architecture.

The Oklahoma Natural Gas Company Building is a historic building in Tulsa, Oklahoma, at 624 South Boston Ave. It was one of the first Art Deco buildings built in, The selection of the new Art Deco style for this building along with the Public Service of Oklahoma Building by the relatively conservative utility companies made the style acceptable in the city and many Art Deco buildings were subsequently built in Tulsa. The building was designed by Frank V. Kirshner and Arthur M. Atkinson. It was built of reinforced concrete and clad in buff brick. The lower two stories are clad in limestone. The verticalness of the building is emphasized by piers rising the entire height of the facade with windows placed between the piers.

This building was spared from demolition in 1982, when ONEOK (the successor to ONG) abandoned its plan to replace the structure with a new high-rise headquarters building. Instead, ONEOK took over a high-rise then under construction by Citgo at Fifth Street and Boulder Avenue.[2] The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 10, 1984, for architectural significance and as a representative of the tremendous growth Tulsa experienced during the 1920s.


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ONG Building at 7th Street and Boston Avenue, Tulsa in 1926

References

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2007-01-23. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html. 
  2. ^ Davis, Kirby Lee "These Walls: Oneok Plaza in Tulsa". Journal Record, The (Oklahoma City). FindArticles.com. Retrieved July 14, 2011. [1]

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