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In Memoriam: Buildings We Lost in 2018 … and a few saves

text by Lynne Rostochil.  Photos by Lynne Rostochil, Sunshine Gadbury, Bob Bowlby and courtesy of KFOR and the Oklahoma History Center. It seemed that the wrecking ball in the metro area was pretty quiet for most of 2018, but when it started swinging in the fall, one iconic Oklahoma City structure after another toppled, leaving […]

Okie Mod on the National Register

by Lynne Rostochil With the news that Bruce Goff’s Comer House in Dewey might soon find its way on the National Register of Historic Places, I thought it would be fun to compile a list of all of Oklahoma’s modern buildings that are currently on the Register.  Because they are among my favorites, I’m also adding a […]

Searching for Modernism in Small-Town Oklahoma

by Lynne Rostochil, vintage photos of the Temple of the Rainbow Girls from the OPUBCO collection at The History Center, vintage photos of the Masonic buildings in Guthrie courtesy Bill Gumerson, current-day photos by the author   One of my favorite pastimes is getting up early on a Saturday morning, grabbing my camera, heading with […]

On the Hunt for Mod in Kingfisher and Enid

text and photos by Robyn Arn and Lynne Rostochil (Both Robyn and Lynne have visited Kingfisher and Enid recently and found several mid-century gems along the way.  Robyn’s contribution will be in normal type, and Lynne’s will be in italics.) A couple weekends ago I headed to Enid to check out some of the architecture […]