Oklahoma City Council adopted an ordinance last week amending a previous controversial proposal that would have stripped some of Historic Preservation Commission’s powers. Months ago, Oklahoma City councilmembers David Greenwell (Ward 5) and Mark Stonecipher (Ward 8) presented a broad proposal that would have only allowed the city council to initiate any historic designation proposal […]
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40 years: Retrospective Gazette
Today, almost a quarter of the Oklahoma City metro reads Oklahoma Gazette for fiercely local news and entertainment. But when it was first founded in 1979, it was a small monthly neighborhood publication only really covering historic preservation and neighborhood issues. In 1982, Randy Splaingard became the publication’s first full-time journalist after working nearly a […]
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40 years: City changes
Oklahoma City as we know it was unrecognizable 40 years ago. While physical changes — like the contemporaneous influx of entertainment and eatery options — are obvious, the attitudes of city residents were also drastically different in 1979 and in the following decades. “1979 was important for a lot of reasons,” said Bob Blackburn, executive […]
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Church to church
Oklahoma City Council voted to pass a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the city, First Christian Church and Crossings Community Church. Part of the agreement states the city will immediately withdraw the application to designate First Christian a historic landmark overlay district. “This MOU provides terms that are agreed to by all three parties,” said […]
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Action item
On Friday, a resolution was added to the Oklahoma City Council agenda for May 7’s meeting but was then deferred to May 21. If passed, it would withdraw the application to designate First Christian Church a historic landmark overlay district. Historic Preservation Commission (HPC) voted to initiate the process April 3, which also started a […]
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Heritage Hills opens homes and gardens to the public for its annual tour
Heritage Hills opens homes and gardens to the public for its annual tour.
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Cultural preservation
The Cherokee National Supreme Court Museum will host part of a series of preservation workshops through June. Photo Provided The Cherokee Nation brings the conversation to the forefront by hosting a series of classes designed to educate and teach the proper way to protect and preserve historical artifacts like firearms, photos, documents and gravestones, as […]
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Saving Gold
The Gold Dome, which once housed a bank at N.W. 23rd Street and Classen Boulevard, will become the new headquarters for a national environmental consulting and engineering firm. TEEMCO, which is based in Edmond and has 65 employees, purchased the building from developer David Box for an undisclosed sum. “TEEMCO believes the Route 66 iconic […]
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Chipping in
Chip Fudge Credit: Shannon Cornman Chip Fudge makes his living in the claims and collections industry, but his true labor of love focuses on the restoration of historic buildings. Founder and chairman of Claims Management Resources, Fudge began restoring some of Oklahoma City’s historically significant homes and buildings in 1986, shortly after the oil bust. […]
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Lofty goal
Carnegie Centre Credit: Mark Hancock Many years later, Hatfield is working to redevelop the old downtown Oklahoma City library, which was abandoned in favor of a newer model in 2004. Her project, which began five years ago, aims to transform the 59-year-old library into the Carnegie Centre, a collection of 19 upscale residential lofts. Oklahoma […]