To me, there is nothing better than going out on a photography safari and stumbling upon an old sign with crazy angles and peppy typography that harkens back to the space race days when we really thought that the future was now. You can still find a smattering of these odes to the halcyon days of yesteryear […]
text and photos by Lynne Rostochil Last week, I told you about some of the great mid-century architecture Ray James designed in Ada, but while we were tooling around town, I noticed quite a few buildings he didn’t design that I thought you might like to see. The downtown area contains quite a few interesting […]
The following photo essay comes from the December 1959 issue of House Beautiful magazine. Photos are by famed architectural photographer, Maynard Parker, and more current-day images have been provided by Robyn. The Oklahoma City home was designed for the Neely family by Richard Kuhlman, who was a professor of architecture at OU for many years […]
text and photos by Lynne Rostochil Raymond Carter may be best known around town for designing many of Nichols Hills’ traditional, rustic rock homes that serenely sit among the mature trees and lush, expansive lawns of the area but seem to be disappearing very fast these days thanks to some pretty ugly and ill-thought-out renos. […]
text and photos by Lynne Rostochil With such regal names as Tudor Road and Astoria Boulevard, you would think that the Windsor Hills addition in NW OKC would be overflowing with ivy-covered, English-style cottages, but this 60’s-era neighborhood that is bordered by NW 36th to the north, Meridian to the east, NW 23rd to the […]
Awhile back, Squadder Mike Brown found some vintage negatives at an estate sale, and he very kindly loaned them to me for scanning. Although they aren’t all architecture related, I thought you might enjoy a slice of Oklahoma life from the 50’s and early 60’s. Thanks, Mike, for sharing your great find! Downtown OKC around […]