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Dean Bryant Vollendorf and the New Homes Guide

by Lynne Rostochil During his years as an architecture professor at OU, Dean Bryant Vollendorf also regularly contributed designs to the New Homes Guide, a bi-annual publication featuring all kinds of residential plans for potential buyers wanting to construct their own home.  While many of the guide’s designs are pretty generic and sedate, Vollendorf’s are much […]

A Modest Man and an MCM Icon: Bob Bowlby and Founders National Bank

by Lynne Rostochil  Photo of Bob Bowlby by Judi Russell (courtesy Friends of Kebyar) At the end of the 1950s, Northwest Expressway was a dusty, rural roadway with few buildings other than Baptist Hospital and the Northwest Hi-Way Drive-In calling it home.  As the city continued to expand northward and the ‘50s became the ‘60s, […]