Endangered Buildings & Places

Tulsa Art Deco

Tulsa’s collection of Art Deco is internationally celebrated, but we are still losing important pieces of our Art Deco heritage to demolition and neglect. In fact, in the twenty years between its original publication and the recently updated edition, a dozen of the buildings featured in Tulsa Foundation for Architecture’s landmark book, Tulsa Art Deco, have fallen to the bulldozer.

Art Deco Union Bus Depot (left) razed in 1987; Skelly Building, with Bruce Goff-designed Art Deco addition, razed in 2004 (right).

Currently, the 1927 Zig Zag Tulsa Club Building is underutilized and quickly falling into disrepair.