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Where to prep for spring

Style and substance

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A New Leaf’s garden and retail center

Three kitchen and bath renovations

Big Dipper Creamery at Mother Road Market

Where to prep for spring. The Irish sport of hurling. Four new pageturners. The Gather Round Crew entertains and excites. Rooms with a heart.

38 LEGENDS: ROBERT LAFORTUNE Former oil and gas industry executive, street commissioner and mayor

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40 THE ULTIMATE GOAL After two years of the Tulsa Commission on Community Policing, officials look at where the city is when it comes to strengthening the community’s trust in the police department.

BY TIM LANDES

45 FRAMING HISTORY Two Tulsans dig into the city’s past via residential avenues.

BY JANE ZEMEL

51 STYLE AND SUBSTANCE Three recent renovations deliver modern updates while embracing the qualities of the homes and their owners.

BY ANNA HOLTON-DEAN

105 TABLE TALK South American flavors with local sources at Que Gusto. A flavor road trip at Mother Road Market. Four suggestions for eating en route to Gathering Place.

SPECIAL SECTIONS 77 LIFESTYLE Four designers take on the 2019 Blank Slate challenge. Dallas for the weekend. Tips to maximize curb appeal. Connie Cronley dives deep into Tulsa history.

51 Kitchens and Baths 60 Residential Lending 63 Tulsa’s Top Real Estate Professionals

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My husband and I have called our little yellow

community. His story on p. 40 reminds us all that

done some updates and talked about many more.

to accomplish the goals of the monumental Tulsa

house home for four years. In that time, we’ve Wouldn’t it be great to have a backyard patio? How

about getting these floors refinished? We should

we’ve come a long way, with work still to be done Commission on Community Policing.

Tulsa continues to grow and evolve. A big part of

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upgrade a door or two. Like any homeowners, we

that has to do with all the activity going on in this

But I often remind myself that what’s most

Road Market (p. 108) are enticing residents from

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hurling — and a tournament to support it (p. 24).

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have a honey-do and wish list a page long.

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city. Attractions like Gathering Place and Mother

across the city. We have a new sport in Tulsa — We have artists doing amazing work (p. 20).

Whether you’re a fifth-generation Tulsan or

heirlooms passed down through generations.

just moved here a month ago, I hope you share my

but true. Home is where the heart is. It’s a matter

out and explore the city. Check out the blooms at

I’m sure we could all say the same. It’s cliché,

of having those you love around you and sharing

a good laugh over a piece of chocolate cake you finally perfected.

In this issue, our home issue, we take the

opportunity to visit with citizens who make Tulsa our home.

excitement. As spring comes to our doorstep, get

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e initially had the idea to create the Gather Round Crew as ambassadors for the park, to go out into the community primarily to engage kids in a fun way,” says Gathering Place director Tony Moore of the park’s seven-member hip-hop dance troupe.

The crew has performed all over the city, including a halftime show during a Thunder game at the BOK Center. The park released a popular music video of their song “Gather Round” this fall. Along with the Tulsa dancers, it features a cameo from

Fik-Shun (Dushaunt Stegall), an internationally touring competitive dancer. The video has had more than 100,000 views.

According to Rodrigo Rojas, the park’s community relations director, the response to the Gather Round Crew has been overwhelmingly positive.

“We know Tulsa is a very diverse city, and music and dance are a great way to transcend barriers that are more difficult to break through with traditional community outreach,” Rojas says. “It’s been a really fun experience.” TP

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time! Akdar Shrine 1-3 It’sCircuscircuscontinues its run at the Expo Square Pavilion.

The West Tulsa Dulcimer Club meets weekly at Zarrow Library to share music.

Drop in to practice, learn or just listen.

Also March 12, 19, 26.

Library Trust honors award2 Tulsa winning poet and author Laura off your home 7-10 Check improvement list at the Tohe with the Festival of Words Writers Award, followed by a day of family programs at Connor’s Cove inside Hardesty Regional Library.

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Practically everything you need to outfit young children for spring and summer can be found at the Just Between Friends sale in the Exchange Center at Expo Square.

the kids to Gathering 4-9 Take Place for morning sessions

of art, reading, board games and more at Drop-in Activities in the Boathouse.

Adult supervised, but parents must be present. (Mondays-Saturdays, through March 30.)

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Compagnie Hervé KOUBI, the International dance phenomenon, returns to the Tulsa PAC, courtesy of Choregus Productions.

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Now’s your chance to see Gilcrease Museum’s “The Chisholm Kid: Lone Fighter for Justice for All,” which pays homage to black cowboys who drove longhorns up the Chisholm Trail, out of Texas and across Indian Territory after the Civil War.

Through April 29 “Leonard Bernstein at 100,” curated by the GRAMMY Museum in Los Angeles, featuring a comprehensive look at the noted composer’s life, work and activism, continues at the Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art. Other exhibit activities at the Woody Guthrie Center end April 28.

Brown Band’s “Down the Rabbit 1 Zac Hole Live” tour comes to the BOK Center.

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grapplers meet 9-10 Collegiate on the mats in the Big 12 Wrestling Championship at the BOK Center.

Live: Save the Day,” 14 “PJbasedMaskson eOne’s top-rated animated preschool series, comes to the BOK Center.

Comedian Carrot Top hits The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, with his “Laugh Until You’re Orange in the Hair” tour.

Green gets a 15-16 Guthrie little greener when the

family-friendly Tulsa IrishFest brings Irish music, food and culture to the public space.

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World Stage Theater Co. presents “Best of Enemies,” the true story of C.P. Ellis, a Grand Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan, and Ann Atwater, an African-American civil rights activist during desegregation in 1971, at the Tulsa PAC.

Greater Tulsa Home and Garden Show inside River Spirit Expo at Expo Square.

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Legendary rocker John Mellencamp is sure to sing “a little ditty” or two at his Brady Theater performance.

Signature Symphony presents “Power of Diversity” with Rubén Rengel, strings instrumentalist and winner of 2018 Sphinx Competition for black and Latino string players, at TCC’s Performing Arts Center for Education.

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The first and second rounds of the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship return to the BOK Center, presented by the University of Tulsa.

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Weezer and Pixies and special guest Basement hold fort at the BOK Center.

“American Girl Live,” 28 Experience an all-new stage production featuring original songs, in the Cox Business Center Assembly Hall.

Tenderloins (truTV’s 29 The “Impractical Jokers”) bring their live improv and sketch show to the BOK Center. Ages 16 and older.

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Tulsa Ballet presents “Tchaikovsky: The Man Behind the Music” with choreography by Ma Cong at the Tulsa PAC. TP

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WHERE TO …

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PREP FOR SPRING

Bring outdoor spaces from drab to fab with these three local spots that have great options for your green thumb.

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Southwood Landscape and Garden Center With 5 acres of retail space and a 25,000-squarefoot greenhouse, Southwood Landscape and Garden Center offers a wide variety of plants, including ever-popular annuals, trees and shrubs. Its colorful azaleas are a popular offering. Southwood grows many of its plants in its Delaware Avenue production facility and greenhouse.

“Doing so allows us to maintain the highest level of quality control, grow plants that are acclimated to our climate, and reduce the carbon footprint associated with trucking plants over long distances,” says Marketing Manager Paul James.

For those who want to learn more about gardening, seminars are offered Saturdays in the spring and fall. Times and topics can be found at the Southwood website.

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Grumpy’s Garden Find a taste of Taos at Grumpy’s Garden. Shaun Greer sells chimineas, sage and jewelry sourced from both New Mexico and old Mexico. Children will delight in the secret garden in back while their parents shop.

Grumpy’s Garden sells plants from local, organic growers and started as a learning space. Greer encourages people to incorporate berries and herbs among their flowers, and she loves helping people get started, whether their garden is in a yard or in a pot by a window.

“I want people to know that you can do anything you want,” Greer says. “You don’t have to spend a lot of money.” TP 1140 E. 15TH ST. FACEBOOK.COM/GRUMPYSGARDENPINONWOOD

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A New Leaf Thanks to A New Leaf ’s focus on sustainability, local gardeners can find everything they need to create a garden that attracts butterflies and other pollinators. Shoppers also can find a wide variety of plants, including annuals in vibrant colors. With its recent expansion, A New Leaf has pop-up stores in Tulsa and Owasso, in addition to its main Broken Arrow retail center. The pop-ups open April 13.

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EUGENE FIELD REVITALIZATION INITIATIVE: BY THE NUMBERS Tulsa’s Eugene Field neighborhood in west Tulsa experiences some of the challenges that a governmental grant was developed to address, including distressed housing, lack of coordinated investment and gaps in basic services.

Here are some facts and figures behind the neighborhood’s planned revitalization, which will break ground in late 2019 and will be completed by September 2024.

TULSANS APPEAR ON ‘JEOPARDY!’ Two Tulsans have recently appeared on one of the longest-running TV game shows.

Dr. John Schumann, University of Oklahoma – Tulsa president, fulfilled a lifelong dream when he appeared in the Dec. 11 episode of “Jeopardy!” He wound up in third place, earning $1,000, and says he loved every minute of being on the show.

More recently, Tulsan Tim Edwards, founder of Questionable Company Trivia, appeared on the Jan. 23 episode. He says he walked away with “a great experience, new friends and $1,000.”

James Wegner, City of Tulsa director of finance and CEO; Kara Joy McKee, District 4 city councilor; Mayor G.T. Bynum; Ted Rieck, Tulsa Transit general manager; Vanessa Hall-Harper, District 1 city councilor; and Phil Lakin, District 8 city councilor

“Moving forward, Tulsa will be one of the first dozen cities in the country to have bus-rapid-transit.

By having this, what we are going to do is open up the city in a way it’s never been accessible to people before, starting from 56th Street North all the way down to 81st Street. People will have access to job opportunities, to educational opportunities, to health care opportunities that they’ve never had before.”

— Mayor G.T. Bynum at a press conference Jan. 15 announcing the groundbreaking of Aero BRT, a bus-rapid-transit system coming to South Peoria Avenue. Aero BRT is expected to open late this summer.

Voices of Oklahoma “Being in the music business, there’s so much that doesn’t have to do with learning how to play guitar or sing a song. It’s so many other things. But part of the rise to the top is the passion for it. There’s only one reason to be in this business, and that’s that you just can’t do anything else. It’s eating you up.”

— The late Tulsa musician and songwriter Steve Ripley. He was a guitarist for Bob Dylan, founding member of The Tractors and a patriarch of Red Dirt music. Ripley died Jan. 3.

“Voices of Oklahoma” is an oral history project founded by John Erling in 2009. Visit voicesofoklahoma.com.

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In 2018, the Tulsa Housing Authority, in partnership with the City of Tulsa, was 1 OF 5 cities to receive a Choice Neighborhoods Implementation grant from the U.S. Office of Housing and Urban Development.

The $30 MILLION grant will revitalize the Eugene Field neighborhood and stimulate economic development in the community.

More than 40 agencies took part in the grant proposal process.

The total budget for the project, called the Eugene Field Revitalization Initiative, is estimated at $127 MILLION. When finished, the EFRI will result in a mixed-use, mixed-income property with 460 new apartments as well as enhanced community amenities, including a proposed grocery store, an upgraded public park and a new community center.

HUD-subsidized and affordable, nonsubsidized market-rate units will be a 50/50 split.

The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation will contribute $12 MILLION in affordable housing grants to support the project, and the George Kaiser Family Foundation will contribute a first mortgage of $27 MILLION. The remaining funds will come from $56 MILLION in housing tax credits from the Oklahoma Housing Finance Agency and $5 MILLION from the Tulsa Housing Authority.

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ARTIST SPOTLIGHT

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Specializing in contemporary sculptural beadwork and printmaking, Molly Murphy Adams creates designs that serve as a cultural narrative and an expression of her personal experience.

SOMETHING BIG Tulsan explores large-scale native art forms through the Tulsa Artist Fellowship.

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hat makes art native or indigenous is not the materials,” says local artist Molly Murphy Adams. “It’s about the perspective or the story you’re telling, and the result will be a native perspective regardless of what the material is.”

A descendant of the Oglala Lakota tribe, Murphy Adams spent much of her childhood on the Salish Kootenai Reservation in Montana. It was there she learned traditional native art forms such as beadwork, pow wow regalia and moccasin making.

In 2004, Murphy Adams earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Montana and sought to find her identity as an artist. By incorporating multiple disciplines to create fiber and mixed-media art pieces, what emerged was a delicate blend of Murphy Adams’ rich cultural history and her love for contemporary art forms.

“I started by taking those things that I knew from my heritage and putting them through the filter of my art education,” Murphy Adams says.

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She relocated to Tulsa in 2010 after traveling here periodically for art functions and work. “On a trip here, I met my future husband at a show at the Cain’s,” she says. “We dated long-distance for a year before marriage and packing me off to Oklahoma.”

Now she is one of 27 artists accepted to the 2019 Tulsa Artist Fellowship, established by the George Kaiser Family Foundation. Moving from her small home studio, Murphy Adams is eager to embark on the opportunities the fellowship will provide. “With this fellowship I’m really excited to take on projects and be able to do them on a much larger and more ambitious scale,” she says, “and to take away the constraints of space, material and time.”

This year, Murphy Adams has plans for largescale printmaking and photography projects, as well as applying for solo shows. Her enthusiasm stems from TAF’s mission: “What they’re trying to do is remove obstacles for people who are really on the verge of doing something big,” she says. TP

Greg Pointer Jones, dancer, songwriter and “hype man” for Gathering Place’s Gather Round Crew, was raised with music. “My grandmother and my mother danced while they were cleaning,” Jones says. “They did that all the time.

Just blasting the music.”

Gathering Place director Tony Moore first saw the 25-year-old Tulsan dancing on a corner downtown. Moore knew right away he wanted to partner with Jones to utilize his gift. That thought evolved into Jones’ role as programming ambassador “to take the Gather Round Crew where we could not physically take the park,” Moore says.

Jones and 27-year-old choreographer Josiah Kelly were instrumental in forming the hip-hop dance group. “We wanted to do something that was fun, useful, engaging and energizing,” Moore says. “We knew these were the two gentlemen we needed to hype it up, choreograph it and bring the professionalism to it.”

Jones relishes his role as hype man — generating audience excitement before and during the group’s performances at Gathering Place and community events.

“That’s who I am,” Jones says. “I love being energetic. The more energetic I can get, the more I can bring it on to other people.”

Fellow crew member Kelly has danced professionally since the age of 18, teaching, choreographing, competing and performing across the U.S. Kelly has enjoyed his time with the team.

He likes sharing a positive message with new groups of people.

“That’s what the Gathering Place is all about,” he says. “Not scattering, but gathering people together, and not just to dance. The dances open the door for us to be able to bring community together, so that’s what I get excited about. It’s a stepping stone to bring the vision home.” — JULIE WENGER WATSON

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Toni Moore, founder and CEO of Hospitality House of Tulsa, left, welcomes a guest to HHT. Moore writes the Hospitality in Action blog, tonimoorehospitality.com, on practicing hospitality in your home, business, church, community and in health care.

THE HEART OF HOSPITALITY

Toni Moore reflects on 16 years caring for families in medical crisis.

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n the biblical parable of the Good Samaritan, the hero cares for an injured man, takes him to an inn and pays an innkeeper for his stay until he heals.

Toni Moore sees herself as the metaphorical innkeeper, and the city of Tulsa as the Good Samaritan. She is the founder of the Hospitality House of Tulsa, a nonprofit that provides lodging, meals and snacks, prayer and other assistance for people traveling to Tulsa for medical care.

After seeing a profound need in her 15-plus years in hospital administration, Moore found that annually 25,000 people travel 50-800 miles to receive medical care at one of Tulsa’s 14 hospital facilities. For some, lodging alone can create a financial crisis. Families with an inpatient in any Tulsa-area hospital or outpatients undergoing treatment can stay with their caregiver at HHT. Influenced by her own family members’ medical crises as a teenager and later as a newlywed, Moore left her career in health care administration in 2003 to start Hospitality House.

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The organization’s first “inn” was an eightunit apartment complex purchased by Hillcrest HealthCare System and offered to HHT through a $1-per-year lease. Since then, HHT has expanded to an additional apartment unit and has a partnership with the Doubletree at Warren Place. Combined, these efforts meet the needs of approximately 1,000 families annually.

With 42 Oklahoma rural hospitals at risk of closing or paring down their services to emergency rooms and outpatient centers only, Moore says other metro communities are preparing to receive thousands more rural patients and families.

Under the umbrella of HHT’s parent company, Philos Hospitality Inc., she and the board of trustees are preparing for future expansions to other communities after the need in Tulsa has been met. Moore says the expansion will require “the heroic intervention of lots of volunteers and generous funders,” but it’s important work.

“The concept of American hospitality is entertaining, but the biblical concept is showing brotherly love toward strangers,” she says. TP

Diane Sheppard is a 13-year volunteer at Mend Medical Clinic and Pregnancy Resource Center, a faith-based medical organization supported by individuals and various churches. Since Mend was founded 32 years ago by Tulsan Nancy Roe, it has annually reached up to 1,000 Tulsa women with unplanned pregnancies, offering them support, information and encouragement.

The nonprofit provides pregnancy testing, limited ultrasounds, childbirth and parenting preparation, and assistance beyond birth. Its staff includes presiding volunteer physician Dr. Matthew Stevens, three parttime nurses and Executive Director Forrest Cowan, who coordinates and oversees 40 trained volunteers.

“I have been volunteering at pregnancy resource centers since nursing school,” Sheppard says. “After being trained in counseling, I performed pregnancy tests and counseled women for over 12 years in St. Louis, Missouri, and Ruston, Louisiana.”

Sheppard moved to Tulsa in 1998. She came to Mend after Roe suggested she volunteer on its board of trustees. “Here I helped in developing policies and procedures for the center, building committees, promoting fundraisers and praying,” Sheppard says. “I have been on the board since August 2006 and president since 2011.”

On giving back, Sheppard says, “I see life as a gift from God, and I am encouraged when I see others enjoying the life that God has given them.” — JUDY LANGDON MARCH 7 Mending Hearts and Saving Lives Banquet 6-8:30 p.m. Glenpool Conference Center, 12205 S. Yukon Ave., Glenpool.

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Trey Hopkins and Charley Lane, members of the Tulsa Gaelic Athletic Club, play hurling. James Herron, inset, brought the sport to Tulsa in 2018.

BENEATH THE WILD BLUE by Marian McCarthy The Tulsa novelist tells the story of a mid-century Air Force family that plummets into a freefall after a tragic accident.

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VOICES OF OKLAHOMA: STORIES FROM THE ORAL HISTORY WEBSITE VOICESOFOKLAHOMA.COM

by John Erling with John Hamill Tulsan Erling, along with former TulsaPeople editor John Hamill, delivers a diverse anthology of stories from the website Erling founded that shares more than 200 first-person interviews with Oklahomans.

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ulsans know they can experience Irish culture in local pubs, at Celtic music concerts, St. Patrick’s Day parties and Bloomsday celebrations. Now they can add the ancient sport of hurling.

Going back some 3,000 years, hurling is played with two teams of 15 players, who use large wooden sticks with flattened ends, called hurleys, to hit a small ball, called a sliotar, through an opponent’s goal posts.

“Hurling is a unique sport that uses a mixture of skill, athleticism and a bit of brute force,” says James Herron, who founded the Tulsa Gaelic Athletic Club (GAC) in 2018. “It’s often referred to as the fastest game on grass.”

Herron began playing hurling seven years ago, while living in New Jersey. “As I began to play in matches and get more proficient in skill, I fell in love with not just the sport, but also the Irish spirit that followed it,” he says. “(In America) it is a sport played solely by amateurs who play for nothing but the love of the game.”

Herron says he was surprised by how many Tulsans were familiar with the sport and even had their own gear prior to forming the GAC in July. There is currently one Tulsa team, but Herron plans to grow the sport’s presence to create a local

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league made up of six teams.

Next month, Tulsa GAC will host a hurling tournament featuring 12 teams from cities including Austin, Chicago, Denver, Memphis, St. Louis and Kansas City. “We’re looking forward to showing them the Magic City and showcasing the sport for Tulsans,” Herron says.

Herron encourages interested players to follow facebook.com/tulsaGAC to learn more about joining.

“There’s no commitment to having players join and commit to a traveling league,” though the team has had a joint practice with teams from Kansas City and Memphis, he says. “We’ve been fortunate that we’ve been sponsored (by the Willows Family Ales, Dead Armadillo Brewery and the Hunt Club) and have been able to buy equipment for that person who is unsure of the sport to try it out, see what they think and take it from there.” TP APRIL 6 “Hurling in the Heartland” Tournament 8 a.m.-8 p.m. Veterans Park, 1875 S. Boulder Park Drive. Free to attend; spectators welcome. facebook.com/tulsaGAC

SILKWORM by Kevin Land Patrick In this former Tulsan’s thriller, a CIA agent navigates a worldwide network of wealthy icons who use terrorism to manipulate economic markets and world events.

66 ON 66: A PHOTOGRAPHER’S JOURNEY

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Connie Lawrence’s home received a new roof and other repairs after she contacted Revitalize T-Town, formerly known as Rebuilding Together Tulsa.

HELPING HOMES Nonprofit repairs houses of Tulsans in need.

BY SARA PLUMMER

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fter two years of renting her Tulsa home, Connie Lawrence decided to purchase it in 2015.

At the time, she had a well-paying job, but then she found herself filing for disability. She was unable to keep up with the work needed around her home.

Fortunately, Lawrence was connected with a nonprofit called Revitalize T-Town, which replaced her roof free of charge. “It was a huge blessing, beyond my wildest expectations,” she says.

Revitalize T-Town, formerly known as Rebuilding Together Tulsa, was founded in Tulsa in 1997 as an affiliate of the national Rebuilding Together organization.

Jennifer Barcus-Schafer, Revitalize T-Town’s CEO, has worked at the nonprofit for 15 years and volunteered with the organization for two years before that.

Last year the local board decided against renewing its contract with the national organization to instead rebrand as a new nonprofit to better serve the Tulsa community and its needs. Revitalize T-Town officially launched in August.

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“Our mission has remained the same: to make homes safe and secure for low-income homeowners so people can remain in their homes,” Barcus-Schafer says. “It’s not gorgeous remodels, but it’s things the home needs. It also helps keep neighborhoods up and running because if one house gets repaired, other homeowners want to follow suit.”

Priority is given to seniors, people with disabilities and families with children, but anyone who meets the income guidelines can apply with proof of income and homeownership.

Once an application is approved, a team assesses the home and photographs every potential repair, including roof replacements, accessibility and safety features, and energy-efficient improvements.

In the early years of Rebuilding Together Tulsa, the organization repaired 20 to 30 homes a year. In 2018, 142 homes were repaired.

For Lawrence, her new roof is just the beginning of the repairs Revitalize T-Town will make to her home. “I’m beside myself with gratitude,” she says. “This poured hope into my life and into my heart.” TP

TulsaPeople’s September 2004 cover featured local TV personality LeAnne Taylor with a wide grin … and a bald head.

At the time, Taylor — who still hosts “6 in the Morning” for KOTV News on 6 — was undergoing chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer while she and her husband, Andy, raised their two small children. The article by Connie Cronley discussed her diagnosis, surgery, career, family life and the many wigs she wore while her hair was growing back.

Taylor recently marked her 15th anniversary as a cancer survivor. “I still have the wigs and use them when I speak to various groups,” she says. “They continue to serve a purpose. I put each wig on and tell (groups) what that wig meant to me.”

Taylor is a longtime volunteer with Susan G. Komen for the Cure and averages 200 people on her team for the Tulsa Race for the Cure, just one of the events she supports. In April, she will celebrate 35 years in Tulsa television.

“I continue to love what I do and remain passionate about helping in the fight against breast cancer,” Taylor says. “That cover of TulsaPeople continues to be one of my most favorite memories and one of my best pictures.

“I still have people telling me how brave I was for allowing that photo to be used. It wasn’t bravery, it was just reality. I wanted others to see that despite being bald, for me, joy came from a higher power. It’s why I continue to smile today no matter what comes my way.” — JUDY LANGDON

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Tulsa group customizes the rooms of children with critical illnesses.

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lush bumblebees hang from a 3-D tree in the corner of 13-year-old Josiah Melton’s bedroom. A soft green rug mimics grass, and hand-painted artwork depicts friendly outdoor creatures, including ants and earthworms.

Every detail, down to the handmade bee bedding, was executed in one day by the volunteers of Rooms With A Heart Inc., a Tulsa nonprofit that receives referrals from local hospitals and creates customized rooms for children with critical illnesses.

Josiah was diagnosed shortly after birth with two genetic disorders and global developmental delays. He is non-ambulatory and non-verbal, though he communicates through an electronic device that utilizes pictures and eye gaze. His mother, Olivia Morgan, says some of the conversations they’ve had using the device inspired the outdoor theme for Josiah’s new room. “He tells me he does not like cloudy

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or rainy days,” Olivia explains. “He loves to be at the park and at the swings.”

Tulsa Realtor Cheryl Snow founded RWAH in 2017 to support local families and their children. Josiah’s room is the nonprofit’s fourth makeover. “When you see just a glimpse of what these families endure with their child’s illness, the financial strain and the sacrifices they make daily to try to have a normal life,” Snow says, “you can’t help but be humbled and want to do whatever it takes to put smiles on their faces, even if it is just for that day.”

Josiah’s conditions are extremely rare, so Olivia says RWAH has given her family a voice to raise awareness. More than that, it puts the spotlight on a little boy who, like many children with special needs, is sometimes overlooked or underestimated by the general public.

Olivia says, “It’s a way to show him, ‘We see you and you matter,’ and that is so appreciated.” TP

GROWING UP IN BARTLESVILLE, Alan Armstrong watched his grandmother struggle with Alzheimer’s disease for 14 years. The experience had a lasting impact on Armstrong and his entire family.

“I remember my uncertainty over the ability to communicate with her,” says the president and CEO of Williams. “As someone trying to express love and care for her, I always wondered if she was hearing me.”

In his grandmother’s honor, Armstrong and his wife, Shelly, are co-chairing the Alzheimer’s Association Memory Gala for the first time this month with longtime Association supporters Susan and Bill Thomas. The 25th annual fundraiser has a hopeful theme: “Imagine a World Without Alzheimer’s.

Imagine a Cure by 2025.”

As difficult as it was to watch his grandmother and family suffer, Armstrong says it inspired him to support finding a cure for Alzheimer’s. And he can look back and see lessons he learned through the experience.

He says it gave him compassion for colleagues who are caregivers of loved ones with Alzheimer’s and other dementias. “I saw my grandfather’s devotion each and every day” as a caregiver, Armstrong says.

“Seeing his character through that helped shape me in a way I would not have experienced otherwise.”

MARCH 1 Imagine: Alzheimer’s Association Memory Gala 25 6:30 p.m. Cox Business Center, 100 Civic Center. Sponsorships available.

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Icons & Idols

Living Arts of Tulsa hosted its annual Champagne and Chocolate Gala on Jan. 26 at its downtown venue.

Approximately 350 guests enjoyed Champagne, an assortment of select chocolates from Glacier Confection, and appetizers from Lambrusco’z, SMG Tulsa, Queenies, Euromart and Gypsy Coffee House.

Live entertainment was provided by DJ Vashonda as guests mingled and observed artwork by gallery artists. Mary Fency Events was the event planner for the evening, which is Living Arts’ largest fundraiser benefiting its continued exhibitions.

More than 500 guests attended Tulsa Ballet’s annual Icons & Idols fundraiser on Feb. 2 at the Cox Business Center.

Guests were treated to a one-night-only performance by Tulsa Ballet’s main company and its second company, TB II, created around the event’s theme, “The Power of Passion,” choreographed by Luciano Cannito. The evening included food by chef Devin Levine and floral arrangements all reflecting the “passion” theme.

Icons and Idols funds allow Tulsa Ballet to continue its performances, dance training and outreach programs in the Tulsa community.

1. Subha Sridharan, Ranan Gangel, Ma Cong, Mary Ann Doran, Jean Ann Fausser, Abby Kurin, Jessica Borusky and Andy Kinslow 2. Living Arts staffers Julie Clark, Jessica Borusky, Chris Henson and Stratton Brooks 3-4. Models showed off the designs of Grace Lim.

1. Betsy Hendershot, 2019 Icons & Idols chairwoman; Sheri Stinson, 2018 event chairwoman; Billie Barnett, 2019 honorary chairwoman; Bryan Hendershot, 2019 event chairman; Susie Wellendorf, incoming Tulsa Ballet board chairwoman; and Janet Selser, Tulsa Ballet board chairwoman 2. Mayor G.T. Bynum enjoys the festivities.

3. Frauke and Oscar Quiroga, 2020 Icons & Idols event chairs 4. Tulsa Ballet dancers Rodrigo Hermesmeyer and Maine Kawashima

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Best of Brunch

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The Crystal Ballroom of the Mayo Hotel downtown was the setting Jan. 26 for the Best of Brunch fundraiser, benefiting Domestic Violence Intervention Services and hosted by the DVIS Associate Board.

Highlights of the event were brunch tastings from 23 restaurants and live entertainment from Mark Gibson Music.

Guests voted Maryn’s Taphouse and Raw Bar and Nothing Bundt Cake the 2019 Best of Brunch winners in their respective savory and sweet categories. Runners-up were Bin 35 and The Chalkboard.

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1. Guests Gloria Pollok and Julie Rethmeyer enjoyed bites.

2. Floral arrangements were provided by Reasor’s Foods.

3. Pasteles Creativos served mocha cake with dulce de leche.

4. Breakfast tacos from Chimera 5. Joshua Orzaras with The Chalkboard prepares peanut butter and jelly French toast bites.

6. Corey Crandall, owner of Maryn’s Taphouse and Raw Bar, Best of Brunch savory winner; DVIS Associate Board members Damon Roberts and Katie Mabrey; and Matt Parks, Maryn’s general manager

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1. Gala chairs Adam and Hayli Leavitt 2. Guests enjoyed cocktails, the silent auction and conversation.

3. Keynote speaker Shaniqua Ray, 2018 Tulsa Public Schools Teacher of the Year 4. Dancing at Cain’s Ballroom 5. Guests played Rock, Paper, Scissors.

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The Pencil Box’s “Rock Paper Scissors” gala on Jan. 26 helped give Tulsa students “a rockin’ future.”

Approximately 225 guests gathered at Cain’s Ballroom.

Highlights of the evening included a silent auction, raffle and a resounding game of Rock, Paper, Scissors, with food by 624 Catering and Kitchen. TPC Studios was the event planner.

As of January 2019, The Pencil Box has given away $1 million worth of supplies to students and their teachers in 50 schools throughout Tulsa County since its first school supply giveaway on Oct. 6, 2015.

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Broadway returns to Tulsa After a record-breaking 35th anniversary season, Celebrity Attractions announced its 2019-2020 Broadway season at the Tulsa Performing Arts Center.

The upcoming season includes a new production of the timeless musical about love, hope and courage, “Les Misérables”; Broadway’s golden ticket, “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”; the epic love story in a new production of “Miss Saigon”; and the new musical “Anastasia.” Additionally, the first national Broadway tour of Disney’s “Frozen” premieres in Oklahoma, and the season concludes with the new musical based on a true story, “Come From Away,” in its Tulsa debut.

“We have one of the most successful Broadway seasons in the country in Tulsa, and we don’t take that success lightly,” says Kristin Dotson, Celebrity Attractions CEO. “It starts with our incredibly committed staff, the support of sponsors, the fantastic partnership with the Tulsa PAC, and most importantly, the trust that our loyal patrons put in us to entertain them through song and dance, laughter and tears.

“There is always a lot of pressure to curate the Broadway season for our Tulsa audiences. We have lofty goals to bring in a wide variety of first-class entertainment every year. But following a season with ‘Hamilton,’ well, the bar was set very high for this upcoming 2019-2020 season.”

Season subscriptions are available online, by phone and in person. This summer, Broadway season subscribers can select their seating online in real time. For more information about subscriptions, performances and other Celebrity Attractions events, visit celebrityattractions.com.

Cox Communications’ gigabit speeds now available throughout Tulsa Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum and Cox Communications declared Tulsa a “Gigabit City” on Jan. 31, announcing that homes throughout the Tulsa metro now have access to 1 gigabit broadband internet speeds. The new connection will give Cox Communications customers subscribing to Cox’s Gigablast internet the ability to download 100 songs in 3 seconds, 1,000 photos in 16 seconds and a 2-hour movie in 8 seconds.

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With more than 500 home improvement exhibitors offering ideas, expert advice and the latest product innovations for the home or garden, the Greater Tulsa Home and Garden Show is Tulsa’s longest-running home and garden show, celebrating 70 years March 7-10 at the River Spirit Expo at Expo Square.

Presented by the Home Builders Association of Greater Tulsa and sponsored by Arvest Bank, the Tulsa Home and Garden Show offers a one-stop shop for all things home or garden, showcasing hundreds of ideas and the latest trends, as well as fun features for the whole family.

This year’s theme is “Look How Far We’ve Come” with several special featured events and destinations.

“I am so excited to be involved in our 70th anniversary celebration,” says Allen Jenkins, chairman of the 2019 Greater Tulsa Home and Garden Show. “Whether it’s in the home, garden or community, this year’s show will help attendees find inspiration for home improvement.”

DIY projects and HGTV’s Chip Wade from “Elbow Room” will be at the Timber and Beam Home-made Stage. Food Network Chef Emily Ellyn and Tulsa chefs will make recipes at the Oklahoma Natural Gas Cooking with Gas Stage. The Gardening Stage will provide gardening tips, and local expert Paul James will address attendees’ questions.

The Family Stage will include entertainment for all ages, while the Beer Garden will be just for grown-ups. Reasor’s will sell bouquets and flowering plants, with all proceeds going to the Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma’s Food for Kids Program.

Show hours are 5-9 p.m., March 7; 10 a.m.-9 p.m., March 8-9; and 11 a.m.-5 p.m., March 10. Tickets are $10 for adults. Children under 12 may attend for free when accompanied by a paid adult.

Visit tulsahba.com or call 918-663-1100 for more information.

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“Cox Communications’ sizeable network investments, including a $10 billion network infrastructure investment, help us stay significantly ahead of demand and enable smart homes, smart businesses and smart cities — all of which depend on reliable high-speed internet service.”

With the average home expected to have more than 50 internet-connected devices by 2020, Cox prepared for its customers’ growing demands by making significant capital investments that have allowed Cox to rapidly increase residential internet speeds.

Additionally, Cox is making significant upgrades to its infrastructure in Tulsa as part of the company’s commitment to invest $10 billion in its network over the next five years.

Cox has committed to offering gigabit speeds to all serviceable customers — not just a select few — and an array of speed and pricing options to all homes and businesses, not just chosen neighborhoods.

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At 92, Robert LaFortune can still be found officing from the Philtower building.

Robert LaFortune FORMER OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY EXECUTIVE, STREET COMMISSIONER AND MAYOR

BY GAIL BANZET-ELLIS

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he LaFortune family name represents a prominent era of growth and development for Tulsa, thanks in part to its 92-year-old patriarch and lifelong resident Robert (Bob) LaFortune.

He was born in Tulsa to philanthropists and longtime businessman Joseph and Gertrude LaFortune. After serving in the U.S. Merchant Marine Cadet Corps and graduating from college, he married fellow Tulsan Jeanne Morse, and the couple began writing their own chapter of the LaFortune legacy. Following a decade in the oil and gas industry, LaFortune served as Tulsa’s street commissioner from 1964 until 1970, when he won the race for mayor — a post he held for four twoyear terms.

Some of the area’s most pivotal economic development projects were implemented on his watch, including the acquisition of land for the Port of Catoosa, developing Tulsa’s expressway system and improving its city parks through the 1972 bond issue.

LaFortune and his wife had six children and enjoyed 52 years of marriage before her death in 2003. Today, the family has grown to include 16 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.

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WHERE DID YOU GO TO SCHOOL/UNIVERSITY? WHY? I attended Marquette for grade school and went to Cascia Hall from the seventh grade through graduation. I played basketball, golf and football and was president of the student council. I moved on to the University of Tulsa for one-and-a-half years.

World War II was coming to an end, but in late 1945 I entered the U.S. Merchant Marine Cadet Corps, which was a training ground for maritime licensed officers. I went to basic training in San Mateo, California, and was assigned a ship. It was one of the great experiences of my life — at 18 or 19 years old — to be cast with other seamen.

We went through the Pacific and back, to South America, Casablanca, France and New York. Being in San Francisco on V-J Day probably was one of the most exhilarating days in the history of the country — to see the explosion of joy and celebration at the end of the Japanese war.

I enjoyed military service and even contemplated making maritime service a career. When the war ended, I came home, re-entered TU for about a year and a half and then attended the chemical engineering school at Purdue, where I graduated in 1951.

TELL ME ABOUT YOUR FAMILY. Jeanne and I had a wonderful marriage. We did a lot of traveling as a married couple. We went to Europe, Italy and the Caribbean. All of the children are college graduates and developed their own lives and marriages.

I’ve always felt pretty proud of how Jeanne and I were able to raise our children. Grand Lake was a central focus of our lives. All of our kids grew up boating, sailing, swimming and enjoying the lake, as I do today.

WHAT ARE SOME OF THE HIGHLIGHTS FROM YOUR TIME IN CITY GOVERNMENT? The 14 years I was in office is one of the highlights of my life. Tulsa was an exceedingly dynamic city between the terms of Jim Maxwell (1958-66), James Hewgley (1966-70) and myself (1970-78). Commissioner of streets and public property was a busy, full-time job. The commission organized the first ambulance service and the first bus service. (Metropolitan Tulsa Transit Authority was formed in 1968, and was started by managing routes already established by a private company. It was the same story with EMSA; there was previously a private ambulance company, but EMSA was established in 1977 as a public trust authority.)

In my first year as mayor, the Port of Catoosa was dedicated, but earlier as street commissioner I had been charged with the job of acquiring the land for it. Today, it’s one of the unseen, unheard gems of Tulsa’s industry. Other big things going on with city government back then were expressways and city streets, and I had a priority to do some work with parks. I was able to get a bond issue together to buy some parkland, which had been terribly neglected for more than 10 years.

(In 1972, voters passed a $13 million bond issue that was matched with $3 million in federal funds to build park facilities. Oxley Nature Center was established in Mohawk Park in 1974 and private

monies in 1977 allowed for its development. Funded by the 1972 bond, the Robert J. LaFortune North American Living Museum is dedicated at the Tulsa Zoo.) A lot of my work involved getting funding (including 90 percent of that funding coming from the federal government) for expressways including the southeast interchange of the (Inner Dispersal Loop).

HOW DOES IT FEEL TO WATCH YOUR GRANDSON, G.T. BYNUM, SERVE AS TULSA’S MAYOR? G.T. has been a gem. I meet every month with him. I don’t give him advice, but if he asks me a question, I’ll be glad to tell him what I think. He has great vision, and he’ll be perhaps the greatest mayor Tulsa has ever had. I’ve tried to introduce him to what a good mayor should be doing — listening to everyone, being accessible, being transparent — and he does all those things. He’s very well organized, has a good staff and is very good at directing people.

WHAT WAS ONE OF YOUR MOST DEFINING MOMENTS IN LIFE? It would have to be the decision to run for street commissioner because that was a turn to political life. I made that decision without much forethought.

WHAT AGE DO YOU FEEL RIGHT NOW AND WHY? My physical capabilities are more like when I was in my early 70s. From that point on, you begin to lose physical strength and agility. I used to play really good golf, but today I don’t play at all.

HOW WOULD YOUR FRIENDS DESCRIBE YOU? My friends would describe me as a middle-of-theroad kind of guy. I’m pretty calm, not out of line and not too aggressive.

WHAT WOULD PEOPLE BE SURPRISED TO KNOW ABOUT YOU? That’s hard to tell. I am very sentimental.

Tears come to my eyes watching a good TV show.

I have a little bit of a hard time even public speaking, talking about things that are very sentimental to me — my wife, things we’ve done, my parents.

It may not surprise people, but that’s the way I am.

IF YOU COULD WITNESS ANY EVENT OF THE PAST, PRESENT OR FUTURE, WHAT WOULD IT BE? I think the end of WWII was one of the greatest times to be alive. No generation today can appreciate what the WWII veterans did with their lives to win that war.

WHAT WAS A “WORST TIME” AND HOW DID YOU PULL THROUGH IT? I think the worst time was probably the loss of my parents and the loss of my wife, too.

I feel very strongly about my Catholic faith. That has a lot to do with how you analyze death and people who have departed that were close to you.

WHAT CONCERNS YOU TODAY? I think our society has become much too secular, very self-interested. I think there’s a lack of compassion, somewhat coming from the president himself.

I’m very sensitive about Tulsa’s homeless. I’ve always been a big supporter of efforts to remediate

some of that. I think we just don’t have enough sympathy for other people and enough consideration and politeness in how we interact.

The lack of interplay between parties and different political interests is discouraging. I always recall Page Belcher (U.S. Rep.-R) telling me how he and his wife and Congressman Tom Steed and his wife played bridge every month. I thought, wow, you mean Republicans like you are mixing with Democrats? With them, it was an accepted practice and should be today.

HOW DO YOU MEASURE SUCCESS? I measure success mainly by the impact it has on the people that are trying to be served. My dad used to say, “Bob, you have to know the joy of accomplishment.” That stuck with me all these years. You need to have a goal and you need to finish it.

WHAT IS A FAVORITE TULSA MEMORY? It probably would be something like the opening of the PAC (Tulsa Performing Arts Center). I’m also very proud of the reconstruction of the library. I learned about libraries when I was mayor. I was on the commission for eight years. When the library campaign came along in 2012, I thought, well, here’s a chance to help raise money. (He served as chairman of the campaign that raised $30 million in private funding.) The completion of that project meant a lot to me, but so did finishing the PAC and the expressway system.

DESCRIBE A PERFECT WEEKEND IN TULSA OR ELSEWHERE. I think a perfect weekend in Tulsa would be visiting our major museums, the library and PAC and seeing how these public projects are really contributing to the quality of life in the city.

There’s plenty for visitors to do. We have some beautiful neighborhoods. They’re unique for their design and quality, so I would say just making sure you know the city from a broad standpoint.

WHAT PLACE IN TULSA DO YOU MISS THE MOST? If I go back far enough, I probably miss the old movie theaters. Growing up, we went to the Orpheum or the Ritz Theater or the Majestic or the Rialto.

I think the passing of movie theaters is something that kids really miss today.

WHAT HAVE BEEN THE MOST SIGNIFICANT CHANGES YOU HAVE EXPERIENCED IN TULSA? One of the most significant changes came with the combination of some city and county operations such as the city-county formation of our library system and health department as well as planning on a city-county basis.

That transition didn’t happen easily in some cases, so I think that has been a really excellent growth element for Tulsa.

WHAT KEEPS YOU BUSY BEYOND YOUR DAILY OFFICE HOURS AT THE PHILTOWER? As the last surviving sibling, I have obligations to the LaFortune family trust. My evening social events occasionally include going to public dinner functions but mostly going out with my kids or having them over for dinner. TP TulsaPeople.com

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Tulsa Police OfďŹ cer Jason Edwards speaks with individuals while on duty near downtown.

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ULTIMATE GOAL Tulsa is making strides to strengthen its community policing initiatives.

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t’s unseasonably warm in early January, and there are a lot of people taking advantage of the sunny day in downtown Tulsa.

That makes it a busy day for Jason Edwards, a patrol officer for the Tulsa Police Department. He’s part of the Impact Team, a TPD initiative that focuses specifically on downtown issues, including homelessness.

“Community policing is what we do,” says Edwards, who is one of five officers on the team.

“Our role is to figure out how we can make life better for all parties. We enforce the laws to help businesses run smoothly. When we encounter a person who is (emotionally) down, we try to intervene and help them.”

From his patrol car, Edwards waves at a group of homeless folks congregating near an intersection. He rattles off some of their names as he turns the corner onto South Denver Avenue and sees a man hanging out on private property a few feet away from a no trespassing sign.

“My goal here is to inform this individual that he’s on private property and he needs to go,” Edwards says. “We have a list of businesses that have filed a no trespassing letter with the city. My job is to bridge the gap between the businesses owners and our homeless population.”

He parks his squad car, exits the vehicle and approaches the man, who is drinking a tall boy of Steel Reserve beer.

Edwards points out the sign and asks for the man’s identification. The man says he is staying at John 3:16 and is waiting on a bus to take him to

Tulsa Police Officers Khara Rogers and Gary Upton play Rock, Paper, Scissors with kids at a recent Police Activity League-sponsored event at the Apache Manor community center. Initiatives like this provide positive interaction with youth, which hopefully carries over to their parents, and in turn builds a better relationship with the entire community.

his job at a nearby casino. As Edwards walks back to his car, the man announces he has a warrant for a DUI. Edwards gets into the car then enters the person’s info on his laptop.

“No, no, no,” says Edwards as he erases the info and retypes it. He shakes his head and contacts dispatch on his radio to verify the man has 10 warrants. After a few minutes, dispatch confirms the list of charges.

“My hands are tied here,” he says. “Had he really had just one warrant I have the authorization to let him go about his day, but he has 10.

Now I have to take him in.”

A second officer arrives at the scene and Edwards updates him on the situation. They proceed in arresting the individual. Edwards pours the remaining beer on the ground and then walks the man to the car.

Less than a mile away is the municipal jail, which opened in March 2018 and detains individuals with municipal charges up to 10 days. If there is no space available or sentences are longer than 10 days, the City has an agreement with the Okmulgee County Criminal Justice Authority to house prisoners.

As Edwards escorts the individual to jail, he asks the man if he has heard of the special services docket. The man hasn’t.

“I think the special services docket would be a great fit for you,” says Edwards to the 41-yearold man riding in the back seat. “You can attend classes and get connected to services. It will lessen your fines or possibly eliminate them. It’s there to help you get back on your feet and have a chance at a better life.” Multiple factors, including arresting officer recommendation, can allow someone to enter the special services docket. It provides six months of counseling, classes and court check-ins, along with reducing or erasing the fines.

The man says he’ll look into it.

Thirty minutes later, the person has been processed, and Edwards has finished his paperwork.

It’s the fourth time Edwards has booked someone in two hours.

“I don’t know if he’ll even realize it, but I didn’t give him any citations for public intox, open container or trespassing,” he says. “He doesn’t need another $800 in fines. He needs treatment if he’s going to have a chance. I suggested on the form he enters the special services docket. I hope he does it.”

CREATING CHANGE The work Edwards and many other officers do today is completely different than a few years ago.

Edwards is in his second year on the force’s Impact Team, which maintains a shared database that lists every homeless person they encounter.

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of the more than 200 homeless camps spread across Tulsa.

In December, the team did a two-week outreach project with the mental health community through which they made contact with 150 homeless individuals in an attempt to connect them with services to receive help.

While the Impact Team has been in service for several years, its expansion stems from the Tulsa Commission on Community Policing, a group created by Mayor G.T. Bynum to strengthen Tulsans’ trust in their police department. Commission members include members of the Mayor’s Office, city councilors, TPD representatives and community stakeholders.

In forming the commission, the Mayor’s administration spent many weeks searching for a city on which to model a program, but couldn’t find one that was what Bynum calls “the gold standard,” so it used a report on 21st-century policing released by the Obama administration.

“We recognized we could use that report and its recommendations for local policing as a foundational document, but we really needed to bring all these different groups in Tulsa together and help us define what community policing looks like here,” Bynum says.

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A list of 77 recommendations to meet the demands of the citizens was developed. Among those items were the deployment of body cameras, the creation of citizen advisory boards, youth outreach, implicit bias training, and community engagement and collaboration. To date, TPD reports it has fully implemented 97 percent of those recommendations. TPD is working to put into practice a way to evaluate community policing efforts, as well as juvenile reintegration and a remodel of the school resource officer program.

Bynum and police leadership meet every two weeks to discuss progress. The full list of recommendations and results can be found at cityoftulsa.org.

“We’ve come a long, long way from where we were two years ago, but it isn’t something where you flip a switch and now we have community policing,” Bynum says. “It certainly isn’t that when we don’t have enough officers to have it implemented in its fullest form, which we want it to be.”

BIGGER FORCE, BIGGER IMPACTS Earlier, independent third-party research had shown that TPD was understaffed by more than 200 officers. For the police to be more proactive and have the opportunity to devote more time to building and strengthening relationships, the city needed significantly more boots on the street.

Bynum and the City Council approved funding through Vision Tulsa in 2016 that resulted in an all-time high for police hiring: 90 new officers each of the past two years.

“To put that in perspective, over the last two decades, our average was about 30 new officers a

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Rogers instructs James Kinnard at a recent Police Activity League archery class at Tulsa Boys’ Home. These interactions contribute to building trust and relationships with all Tulsans, which has been a cornerstone of the Tulsa Commission on Community Policing.

year,” Bynum says of the police force that had 740 officers when he took office. “We’ve funded at least six years’ worth of hiring over the last two years.”

But, he says, “We recognize that even at the record-setting pace it will still take four to five years to get to where we need to be from a staffing standpoint in the police department. That’s the big one. The most expensive part of the overall program is the staffing levels, and that will take the most time of anything else we’re doing.”

Deputy Chief Jonathan Brooks, who oversees the Operations Bureau and the community policing initiative, says the department is looking for diverse candidates to meet the needs of our growing city. The U.S. Census Bureau estimates that as of July 2018, Hispanics or Latinos make up 12.7 percent of Tulsa County’s population, African Americans make up 10.8 percent, Native Americans are 6.8 percent and Asians are 3.4 percent of the population.

Brooks says diversity is important to TPD since the Tulsans it serves come from numerous cultures, races and ethnic groups and speak a variety of languages.

“Having a diverse workgroup embedded in our department fosters approachability, openness, understanding and communication between the department and all communities of Tulsa,” he says.

“Additionally, learning and having exposure to various cultures fosters understanding from both sides. Communication and understanding results in a relationship which begins the trust-building process.”

TPD is using focused and targeted recruiting, according to Brooks.

“We’re recruiting minority and bilingual candidates,” Brooks says. “We’ve had success recruiting out of west Texas for bilingual (candidates), and we’re working on recruiting more diverse candidates out of universities. We just held a forum for potential female officers that was highly successful.”

As part of the community policing initiative, TPD has put a larger emphasis on mental health, developing more tactics like the Tulsa Sobering Center, which opened in midtown in May 2018 and is operated by 12&12. The City pays $250,000 annually to fund it.

“We have to look at all the factors that create crime,” Brooks says. “That’s why we opened a sobering center. It doesn’t sound like it’s part of community policing, but when an officer comes in contact with somebody who’s in crisis with an addiction problem, what would have happened to them two years ago? We’d take them to jail, and they’d get in this revolving door of the criminal justice system.”

Now, adults who have been detained for public intoxication, who have not committed any other crimes, can be taken to the Tulsa Sobering Center for a 10-hour period to “sleep it off ” in a safe, clean environment. They also are connected to services such as counseling and addiction recovery.

Along the same lines, TPD also launched a Crisis Response Team, which made headlines in October 2018 when it helped prevent a woman from jumping off the Peoria Avenue bridge that runs above the Broken Arrow Expressway. Tulsa’s CRT was a TPD initiative and part of the department’s comprehensive mental health plan. It also is included in the community policing plan.

“It’s not just an officer going out to address these mental health or medical issues, it’s an officer with a social worker, with a paramedic from Tulsa Fire, and they’re riding together,” Brooks says. “They go out as a team. They take the priority calls that deal with mental health.”

WHAT IS COMMUNITY POLICING? “From the police perspective it comes down to this: For us it means working with our community to solve their quality-of-life issues that relate to crime or the fear of the crime.”

— Deputy Chief Jonathan Brooks

POSITIVE ENGAGEMENT Though mental health outreach has become a major priority for TPD, it also is devoting considerable resources to creating positive experiences with citizens at an early age.

Among the new tactics is the Tulsa Police Activity League, which launched in June 2018.

TPD Community Relations Officer Khara Rogers says its goal is “to have activities, athletic programs and stuff like that for kids to create a positive relationship between officers and kids, and the community overall.”

TPD entered a partnership in 2017 with Tulsa Public Schools to take over operations of the HelmZar Challenge Course on North Peoria Avenue. It’s now the SKYWAY Leadership Institute, which allows Rogers and other officers to host students to participate in the ropes course, or do wall climbing or other activities.

Rogers is based out of SKYWAY, but spends most her time driving around Tulsa in “The Pink Car” to work on mentoring projects such as a partnership with First Tee, a golf program for kids, “Bigs and Blue” with Big Brothers Big Sisters and a basketball program with YMCA. She also visits Tulsa Housing Authority complexes to host workouts, create obstacle courses or other fun activities for the residents.

The Police Activity League spends two days a week at the Tulsa Boys’ Home teaching archery classes on Wednesdays and functional fitness on Thursdays. Many officers have taken part in the program with Rogers.

“It has been phenomenal seeing the officers interact with the kids in the archery program,” Rogers says. “It took them a while to warm up to us, but once they did it has been great. The whole concept is for them to understand that police officers are there to help.

“We’re not the bad guy. A lot of the kids out there have seen police in a negative circumstance either in regard to a substance abuse situation or a Department of Human Services situation. We’ve had officers talk to them one-on-one and figure out why they’re angry, and they open up.”

For her first five years on the force, Rogers patrolled the Gilcrease Division that runs from

downtown to Sand Springs. She says she misses some of the fieldwork but finds her new role more rewarding.

Rogers considers the positive interaction with kids a demonstration that police are a positive thing in their life rather than the depictions on TV or in movies or what their family or friends tell them.

“If we step up and make a positive impact on them early in life,” she says, “they’ll be more likely to have positive interactions with us when they get older.”

Rogers says if they are successful, it also could result in stronger relationships with the adults in those kids’ lives.

“Our focus with the activities is kids up to 17 years old, but our interaction hopefully carries over to their parents,” she says. “They maybe don’t have a positive image of us either. If they see it or the kids come home and tell them about a positive experience, then their perception might change.

We want to build a better relationship with the entire community. That’s the ultimate goal.”

It’s an investment in the city and its citizens’ future, and Brooks says they won’t see the results “for about four to six years, as the kids become adults.”

“The youngest generation is the one we’re most focused on,” Rogers says. “That’s why we’re going into schools. We’ve started Project Trust (a program for high school students to spend time with officers and learn about police operations) and are rebuilding our school programs and our community and school resource officer programs to try to re-establish that relationship with the youth because they will soon be adults. They’re the ones we want to recruit to work and stay in our community.”

SETTING THE STANDARD Some proponents of community policing in Tulsa believe more needs to be done to address police accountability.

“We have to be serious and intentional about changing the culture,” says Vanessa HallHarper, District 1 city councilor. “Let’s change

the policies and put the infrastructure in place that the community can trust, then we can move on to those community relations initiatives.

“You can’t have the community relations without the accountability. The policy and the accountability is the foundation. If the community can trust that the system is fair and just, then those things will hold water. They’ll hold weight.”

In May 2018, Hall-Harper was among a group of individuals and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund that sent Bynum and the City Council a letter outlining the six recommendations they found to be the most important in changing police culture. Hall-Harper says all six came from the 21st-century policing report that served as a foundation for the commission.

One of her big sticking points is independent, third-party investigations of police actions instead of an internal affairs investigation. She points to neighboring Sand Springs as an example of a police force that doesn’t investigate its own.

Despite this, Hall-Harper says she is confident the culture shift needed for police and her constituents to truly work together is coming. Six months after Bynum took office, he released arrest data that stated African Americans are two times more likely to be arrested and police are five times more likely to use force in an encounter. These are things Hall-Harper wants to see improved.

“I do believe the City under Mayor Bynum has done more than any previous administration,” Hall-Harper says. “The fact he said he was going to release these numbers in spite of those that didn’t want him to speaks volumes. Now we need to take those extra steps to make sure real cultural shifting takes place.

“I think under this administration we have the greatest opportunity so far. I’m hopeful we’ll do something about it. I’m not going to give up until it happens.”

Two years into the overhaul, the mayor agrees the work is not done, but he’s pleased with the progress the Tulsa Police Department has made in its efforts to build a more positive relationship with Tulsans of all ages and all addresses.

“I feel good about where we are,” Bynum says.

“The department has demonstrated its commitment to doing this. The City Council and I have committed by funding the department in the right ways, so that it can be carried out.”

Is Tulsa on its way to becoming that Holy Grail of community policing that Bynum’s team never found?

“The feedback we get from other cities is very encouraging,” he says. “When they find out about our program and how comprehensive it is, we have other cities that have been approaching our department leadership, saying they want to adopt our community policing program.

“I’m not aware of anybody that’s doing it in as comprehensive of a way as we are in Tulsa. That’s the way it should be. We want to be the gold standard of cities.” TP TulsaPeople.com

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This original mantel in a Sears Hazelton was an upgrade to the original kit plan.

A home in the Renaissance neighborhood was built around this safe. It was the home of W.P. Miles, owner of the Diamond Drug Store and an early developer of the neighborhood.

Rachel Shoemaker has a library of catalogs for Sears kit homes. This one, a Sears Hazelton, dates to 1912.

Framing history TWO TULSANS DIG INTO THE CITY’S HISTORY VIA RESIDENTIAL AVENUES.

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ew houses are all about square footage, cabinet choices, countertop options, sparkling appliances and insurable roofs. Buyers just have to move in, arrange the furniture, empty dozens of boxes, hang some pictures and start making memories.

Older homes come with different attributes. Stories and plots are already built into their plaster walls, archways or unique trim kits. Physical and historical baggage are just waiting to be unpacked. And when diligent researchers like the two women featured here uncover such details, those homes become more than just address numbers on a street. Each becomes its own fingerprint. A one-of-a-kind snowflake in a blizzard of abodes.

Arena Mueller and Rachel Shoemaker share passions for houses, history and this city.

Their research provides the narratives these structures might speak. More than just homes, these houses are lived-in history.

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Arena Mueller and Jeremy Walker stand in Walker’s unfinished second floor. The home was originally built by Tulsa businessman William Redfearn in 1929. Over its 90 years, none of the owners have finished the project. Mueller researched Redfearn and the home as part of her Renaissance Neighborhood History Project.

Renaissance woman Anyone driving through Tulsa’s Renaissance neighborhood can see the charm and uniqueness of its homes. Arena Mueller considers it the heart of midtown Tulsa; bordered on the north and south by East 11th and 15th streets, on the east and west by South Lewis and Harvard avenues.

It’s also ground zero for her research. She has called the neighborhood home since 2009.

Mueller describes her own home in the neighborhood as “a little jewel box on a corner lot.” She fell in love with the 1930-built, yellow-brick gingerbread house and its arched tray ceilings and original chandeliers. “It’s tiny, but magnificent,” she claims.

There are no granite countertops or fancy backsplashes for her. “I still have the original 1930 kitchen,” she says proudly.

Along with being curious about her own home, she decided to research the rich histories (or checkered pasts) of others in the neighborhood.

“There isn’t another home in the neighborhood like mine,” she says, “but my neighbors can say the same.”

In spring 2017, Mueller created the Renaissance Neighborhood History Project, a working study of her special piece of Tulsa history.

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She posts her findings at tulsarenaissancehistory. blogspot.com.

Monday through Friday, Mueller is a hard-working government employee. A clinical psychologist who works with veterans. Long hours. High stress levels.

“I needed a hobby that captivated me during my time away from work,” she says, explaining how she became interested in researching older homes.

One Renaissance home, in particular, has physical treasures worth noting. Also built in 1930, the home has two flat, octagonal stained glass panels that serve as ceiling light fixtures. One, blue/green; the other, silver/gold. Mueller’s work is helping to photograph and document these features for historic preservation.

The first house she wrote about was built in 1925, constructed around a safe in the basement.

Cassie DeLozier Miller and Travis Miller already knew the history of their home and Mueller asked to write about it. “I thought it was a good place to start since the builder of that home, W.P. Miles, subdivided a significant part of the neighborhood,” Mueller says. As the gossip goes, the owner was a bootlegger. When the Millers heard the story, they invited guests to a speakeasy-themed party to help fund a safecracker. Sadly, much like the Geraldo Rivera safecracking fizzle of 1986, the

inside only contained a shot glass, mirror and milk-glass light shade.

It was the character of the home that drew in the homeowners. “One of the reasons we bought in midtown and the house we did is that we had an interest in architectural details that you can’t get in new homes,” Delozier Miller says. “These have a life and a story of their own, and we were interested in finding that story.”

When the homes were built in the late ’20s and early ’30s, most came with clauses stating they were never to be “sold or occupied by anyone of the Negro race,” with one exception: domestic service.

The 1968 Fair Housing Act made housing discrimination illegal.

The most recent house Mueller researched also had ties to Tulsa’s race issues. The original owner was William Redfearn, a white man who owned a theater and hotel on Greenwood Avenue.

The day of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, his buildings burned to the ground. Redfearn estimated his loss at $104,000 (more like millions in today’s dollars). Although he was fully insured, the insurance company refused to pay.

Redfearn sued the city, county and insurance company, claiming police burned down his buildings. He produced 19 witnesses in a case that went all the way to Oklahoma Supreme Court.

Although he lost, trial records and witness statements proved to be historical treasure troves of information.

He built another house, a Tudor near East 14th Street and South Birmingham Avenue, in 1929 but died before finishing the second floor. None of the next six owners over 86 years got around to it either. Residents of the home were plagued by divorces, bankruptcies and foreclosures. For Mueller, the possibility of a curse only adds to the intrigue.

The Renaissance Neighborhood Association has been a fertile source of history about the homes in the area and is credited for helping to save the Campbell Hotel by opposing an effort in the late 1990s to raze the then-vacant building. “We’re looking at our assets to consider an historical designation,” Mueller says of the neighborhood. Nothing regulatory to set remodeling standards. Just for the accolade and to recognize the assets that exist within the neighborhood, like the Tudor revival by architect Joseph Koberling Jr. — known for Tulsa’s downtown library, the Public Service Co. building and Will Rogers High School — and a streamline art deco home. Mueller’s work could help toward that goal, too.

Her research process is linear. Point A to Points B, C, D and so on. Her neighbors have been encouraging and willing to share the history they know.

“I start by getting my hand on the abstract from the abstract company,” she says. That official document provides the history of the property. Once she gets the line of homeowners, she matches those names to the 1930 and 1940 U.S. census. Documents from the county assessor and Oklahoma Historical Society also are useful.

Originally, all the land in the neighborhood was owned by members of the Creek Nation, as allot-

Arena Mueller is the Tulsan behind the Renaissance Neighborhood History Project. She has named her 1930 home “Golden Gables,” and loves the many original details, like its chandelier, right. In the research of her home, she discovered that a man who owned the mineral, oil and gas rights to her property and the adjacent area in the early 1900s happened to be a long-lost relative of hers from Pennsylvania. He worked in the oil industry and came to Tulsa for work. In Mueller’s most recent blog post, “The Secret in the Wall,” she tells the story of Paul and Norma Trees, and their daughter, Radine, who lived in the neighborhood. The Trees placed a time capsule filled with photos and a letter, left, in their home in 1948. It was found in 2016.

ted by the federal government. One of the original allotments went to 8-year-old Addie Perryman, considered a member of Tulsa’s “first family.” She received 160 acres.

After a few transactions, some of Perryman’s property was sold to W.P. Miles, the first man to plat and subdivide much of the land that became Renaissance Neighborhood. He called it the Miles Addition.

Although Mueller hasn’t quite reached her goal of researching four homes a year, her pursuit of local history continues. “I’m behind,” she admits.

“My hobby has to wait for weekends. But once I get into a house, it almost just wraps me up.”

Mueller didn’t grow up in a historically significant home. In fact, because her parents moved so often, she doesn’t claim any home as the one she grew up in. Her appreciation for homes with a history originated with her grandparents.

They lived in the west suburbs of Chicago in the 1980s, where her grandmother was a real estate professional. When as a young girl Mueller would visit in the summers, the two would tour older homes. Everything from the smallest detail to the third-floor ballrooms fascinated her.

Historic homes have always attracted her — some real, some imaginary, some literary. The homes in her grandparents’ neighborhood. Thornfield Hall in “Jane Eyre.” And especially Grey Gar-

dens, the East Hampton estate whose decline and decay inspired a documentary, Broadway musical and TV movie.

“Grey Gardens taught me that a house can be a character, an entity, a living, breathing family member with its own quirks and style,” Mueller says on her website. “These homes evoke a sense of stewardship for the future from their owners and caretakers.”

Sears-ious historian If you want to know about Route 66, ask Michael Wallis. For T-Town weather, try Travis Meyer.

But if you’re looking to learn something about kit homes from Sears, Rachel Shoemaker is your local authority. And if she hadn’t needed a rotator cuff repair, none of this might have been possible.

This recently retired firefighter was placed on light duty following surgery in April 2008. Her supervisor, knowing she had a degree in music, assigned her an interesting task: researching artwork displayed at fire stations.

As a result of a 1969 city ordinance, a small percentage of the cost for Tulsa’s public buildings was designated for public art, including statues and paintings. Armed with a camera and curios-

ity, Shoemaker dug into the works, the artists and how the pieces came to be. She also stumbled onto information about the architects and blueprints for local fire stations. And a few detours later, she wandered into the world of mail-order kit homes.

The idea behind kit homes originated with a Michigan lumber dealer/mill that wanted to sell more materials. The Aladdin Co. in Bay City offered “knock down boats” (essentially boat kits).

The lumber for the boats came with the plans needed to put the pieces together.

The marketing approach was simple yet genius.

Buy the material, get the blueprints free. The idea expanded to homes and cottages to go with the boats. Eventually, heavyweights like Sears jumped on the bandwagon.

The company precut and bundled all the materials needed — framing, windows, door hardware.

Everything but concrete and rock. Those materials were too heavy to ship and had to be bought locally. Also excluded were materials for electricity or plumbing, neither of which were standard at the time.

Sears produced kit homes between 1908 and 1940, ranging in price from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars. Approximately 70,000 kit homes were shipped to all (at the time) 48 states through the company’s Mail Order Modern Homes program.

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Buyers could choose from 370 models, not counting mirror-image plans. All 10,000 to 30,000 pieces were well marked and shipped via boxcar.

Most comforting, they arrived with a 75-page instruction book.

Over her 10 years of research, Shoemaker has identified 20 Sears homes in Tulsa. The earliest dates to 1912; it’s a Sears Hazelton in Brady Heights owned by Scott Trizza. The longtime Brady Heights resident did not know his home was a Sears catalog home until the day Shoemaker knocked on his door to meet him and show the homeowners its catalog. Trizza says he loves to sit on his front porch and often meets travelers touring Tulsa’s historic home sites.

Statewide, there are closer to 60 Sears homes.

In the beginning, Oklahoma was too far from the Sears lumber mill in Cairo, Illinois, to make shipping efficient. Other kit home companies such as Aladdin and Gordon van Tine had small mills located across the country, which made shipping costs more reasonable. As the original lumber supplier bought other mills around the country, outposts like Oklahoma were within reach.

At the beginning of her research, Shoemaker bought books on the subject and pored over the photos. She recognized one home — a Sears Woodland — close to her assigned Fire Station No. 2 on West Edison Street. “I’ve got an eye for detail,” she says. “I have a really good memory for things like that.” Even throughout potential decades of change or additions, the homes are still recognizable to Shoemaker.

She discovered another one in Owen Park. “It looks like every other house for the most part,” but she focused on the details. To determine if the house is the Sears version, room measurements have to be exact. She obtains dimensions from assessor websites and gets a good idea on room size and floor plans based on window and door placement.

From there, she does meat-and-potatoes detective work. She researches the buyers from sales records and can obtain addresses from census reports or city directories from that particular timeframe, eventually finding the home and maybe even descendants who have photos.

Mortgage records can yield helpful information, too, as Sears offered financing for the homes.

“First thing I look for is if (the house) matches the catalog image,” Shoemaker says. She then checks examples of the millwork to confirm the Sears connection.

Other evidence can be stenciling on the wood to indicate it was precut and to instruct builders about which pieces go together. Shipping labels on the back of the millwork are other clues (look for Sears as the return address). “It’s like paint-bynumber or Ikea in today’s world,” she says of the bygone kit-home phenomenon.

“They’re not any different — not any better or any worse — than any other house; just part of Americana,” she points out, adding that the homes of this era were built from first-growth lumber.

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Rachel Shoemaker has developed a large library of kit-home blueprints and catalogs.

Rachel Shoemaker, left, found Tulsa’s oldest existing Sears home in the Brady Heights neighborhood. It is owned by Scott Trizza, right, who treasures its large front porch and original aesthetics, like the special-order, original front door and mantel.

books where architect designs were often featured.

These kit companies were in the business to sell lumber and building materials, and having prepared plans saved time and money — although they did, upon request, design homes for buyers.

Kit homes died out as building codes became stricter and more varied by local jurisdictions.

According to Shoemaker, they still are available through other sources with the understanding that the owner/builder adapts them to local building codes.

Shoemaker, herself, doesn’t live in a Sears kit home. Her Bixby house was built in 1999, and contains her pair of four-drawer file cabinets filled with catalogs of kit homes. The catalogs featured testimonials (today’s customer reviews) sent to the companies by recent users. Using those testimonials, she was able to locate several hundred kit homes built across the country from all kit-home manufacturers.

Her research once took 10-12 hours a day. Now

retired, she mostly answers questions via email, her blog or the Facebook page she created nine years ago. She has become a leading researcher of Sears kit homes. She has been contacted on Sears’ behalf as an expert witness to prove a house in question was not a Sears kit home. She also has done radio interviews and has been featured in newspaper articles in Los Angeles and Colorado Springs, as well as in Connecticut History magazine.

When Shoemaker notifies someone of their home’s history, she gets different reactions. “Some aren’t interested to find out they live in a Sears home,” she says. But some are because the homes have become popular again. “All the rage,” she adds.

Shoemaker invites her followers to widen their appreciation of Tulsa architecture to include these homes: “Look past the mansions of the oil tycoons and the Art Deco that has made us so popular and enjoy a little Tulsa history as well as Oklahoma history.” TP

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STYLE & SUBSTANCE THREE RECENT RENOVATIONS DELIVER MODERN UPDATES WHILE EMBRACING THE QUALITIES OF THE HOMES AND THEIR OWNERS.

BY ANNA HOLTON-DEAN This south Tulsa home’s kitchen renovation brought purposeful design and rustic aesthetics to complement the home’s setting.

ENTERTAINING THE OUTDOORS Located in a wooded south Tulsa neighborhood, a white, inefficient kitchen spurred the redesign of the entire living and entertaining areas of Dason and Lynn Gwartney’s home.

Lynn Jessee and Hillary Holt, interior designers for Kitchen Concepts, were tasked with creating a rustic, open space that would blend seamlessly with the tranquil backyard views.

“When the Gwartneys purchased their home, it had an antique-white builder’s grade kitchen,” Jessee says. “This was different in that we are often asked for a white kitchen, but in this case, they wanted something rustic and traditional.”

The couple’s other must-haves included updated appliances, organization and an area for entertaining. They also wanted the beautiful backyard to be visible from both rooms. Before, the layout was spread out and divided with the refrig-

erator on one side and oven on the other. A large peninsula separated the kitchen and living areas, making both rooms feel enclosed and small.

The redesign removed the peninsula and an out-of-place cabinet, which blocked the backyard view. “When we design a kitchen, we think of each purpose: an area for prep, an area for cooking, an area for clean-up and an area for entertaining,” Holt says. Now, the homeowners have an additional 5-plus feet of living room space and a workable, open kitchen layout with designated areas.

The designers achieved balance by incorporating warm, dark colors “but with a splash of gray to bring it up to date,” Jessee says. Outdated, exposed hinges and short cabinets were replaced with wood cabinets that extend to the ceiling.

Light gray walls and the addition of a handpainted French tile backsplash by Walker Zanger provide soft color and elegance while maintaining the rustic style.

Black granite countertops were replaced with Caesarstone in Bianco Drift, a light color to add further contrast to the warm tones. A large black island with ample storage and stove now offers functionality and seating where those cooking can still be part of the conversation.

All new appliances, including an industrialsized refrigerator, beverage cooler and icemaker, now offer maximum function and, truly making it an entertainer’s kitchen, a butler’s pantry just off the kitchen was converted to a wine bar for displaying wine and serving as a drink station.

The warm tones visually extend to the floor as the once gold-colored wood was hand-scraped and refinished in a darker shade. New built-in matching bookcases and a rock fireplace in the adjoining living area complete the rustic vibe and make one cohesive space for cooking, eating, entertaining and relaxing.

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FAMILY-FRIENDLY FUNCTION A stunning pond view and serene greenbelt sealed the deal for Bob and Patty Stuart in choosing their ’80s-era traditional home. However, the couple knew it would need a significant remodel.

Its wrap-around galley-style kitchen was closed in and flanked by a separate living space on either side, all finished off in dark colors of gold and brown. The confined spaces simply wouldn’t work for the empty nesters with five children and seven grandchildren, with one on the way.

The Stuarts called upon Brenda Rice and Gina Miller, co-owners of GHD Interiors, to create an open concept floor plan in the kitchen, family and living room spaces — all in a more modern yet traditional style with timeless architectural details, incorporating a light color palette and use of quartz, iron and cast-stone finishes. Additionally, they wanted to fully remodel the master bathroom and add major updates throughout the entire home.

Patty’s greatest must-have was a chef ’s kitchen, Rice says. The first order of business was removing the walls on either side of the kitchen and adding a large white island with inset stove and seating for six or more. “This stove is my command post,” Patty says of her new centrally located work space, where she can cook and visit with her children and grandchildren while enjoying natural light and outdoor views in every direction.

“Over the holidays, we had 23 people for dinner without having anyone on sofas, which was nice, and I could be cooking and still be a part of the group instead of facing the wall,” Patty adds. “That was a huge goal that I put on Brenda and Gina. I love to cook, and I need to see my family while I’m cooking.”

Light tones with rich finishes help modernize the room. For countertops, Rice and Miller chose Quartzite in Perla Venata. “It’s creamy, warm and has a lot of movement in it, but it’s light in color,” Miller says, “and we chose brushed gold cabinet hardware that added a modern look with a traditional material for both the kitchen and master bath.”

The designers repurposed the existing walnut-toned cabinets in various ways, such as creating a dessert/buffet area in the family room, which Patty says functioned perfectly for the recent holiday spread. “The goal here was to wrap the whole (family and kitchen) room with that consistent cabinetry that brings the whole space together,” Rice says.

Repurposing cabinets allowed for splurging on black and gold full globe light pendants. “In the kitchen you don’t want to see lightbulbs,” Rice explains. “When you’re sitting at the island, you’re looking up a lot, and the full globe gives a beautiful glow.

“The gold and black with the glass gives the accents we need for the look, but you want to cover those light bulbs.”

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This south Tulsa home underwent a major renovation, including updates to three full and two powder bathrooms. All new lighting and fixtures, as well as a reconfigured laundry room, pantry and new exercise room off the master suite were included in the remodel.

in a classic quatrefoil pattern, which has been used since Roman times, adding sophistication and elegance.” A similar backsplash, with reversed use of colors, behind the bar in the living room provides cohesion with the design.

Floating shelves in the kitchen and bar area along with oversized hardware add to the modern touches. “And there’s just so much functionality,” Miller says. “You can see the ease of getting to your dishes and service in the bar area. It makes it a much easier home to live in and feel comfortable.”

A family-friendly, light-colored luxury vinyl plank flooring was chosen for its durability and easy cleaning ability while adding the warmth of wood and a base for the light color palette. One paint color — Sherwin-Williams Shoji White — was used throughout the entire home on all surfaces to add to the updated style.

In the master bath, the designers continued the theme of modernizing the space while fulfilling the request of creating a “spa feeling with overthe-top shower amenities.” Formerly dark from ceiling to floor, the redesigned space is light and airy and showcases a soaking tub and enlarged steam shower with a rain shower head. Rectangular transom glass windows from the living area were repurposed as windows in the shower/tub area to give natural light. Increased storage and vanity space with gold accents and modern hardware finish off the luxurious feel.

“We gave Brenda and Gina a long list,” Patty says. “We wanted the house to be warm and comfortable and have movement with every room being used. We wanted everything to flow really well, and they did an incredible job of accomplishing that.”

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The recent redesign of this midtown “Tulsa classic” is one Julia Kirkendall, principal designer of Kirkendall Design, says she won’t soon forget.

“It was built in the ’70s with great architectural elements, and the client wanted the kitchen to reflect the rest of the house,” she says. “The project was very fulfilling as a designer because we could greatly improve their quality of living in the home by the major remodel of their kitchen.” The remodel also included all of the home’s bathrooms, and over the years, almost 90 percent of the home has been updated.

A confined kitchen made the space unenjoyable for the homeowners. They wanted a room for family experiences, not just a separated work zone. Their must-haves included leaving the range and sink in their original locations and the additions of a sit-down island and large pantry.

To open up the space, Kirkendall’s plan involved removing a wall to connect the kitchen to a small living area with large windows. The reworking of walls allowed for the new walk-in pantry, featuring a classic schoolhouse door with obscured glass.

Small workspaces were expanded, and old cabinets were replaced. “There was also a peninsula that came across and created a U and divided the kitchen from the eating area,” Kirkendall says. “It didn’t flow; it was a big division in the middle of the room.” The newly installed, light gray cabinets feature soft-close doors and drawers and pull-out shelves in all the base cabinets. A large island in a contrasting blue/ black color offers ample space for food prep, cooking and serving purposes.

Light-colored granite in Sea Pearl and a glass subway tile backsplash help brighten the space, and long modern pulls in brushed brass bring balance and a mix of metals to the new stainless steel appliances. Globe lights over the island again harken to the old schoolhouse theme. Over the table, a unique diffused light chandelier in brushed brass ties into the hardware and mix of metals.

Warm wood floors replaced the uneven terra cotta tile, and the rest of the home’s floors received a custom refinish in light taupe. “A big thing people are looking for is customization. You can’t get this from a can; it’s a custom mix,” Kirkendall says.

Although kitchen window curtains were replaced with electric blinds controlled by remote, the family’s heirloom table and chairs remained, but with updated upholstery. “It’s a modern classic design,” Kirkendall says of the overall finished product. “Modern because of the sleek features and hardware, classic because we brought in elements like the subway tile and kept the antique table.”

Because the homeowner loves for each space to have its own personality, Kirkendall delivered a distinct look for each bathroom while keeping the “modern classic” cohesion.

Directly off the foyer, “the powder bath had to be smashing,” Kirkendall says. A new vanity was finished in German silver with a glass-top counter. A tile wall behind the sink serves as the backsplash, and a shallow sink basin finishes off the vanity area. Clear globe pendant lights give ample light to the space without obstructing the view.

In the pool-accessible bathroom, she chose navy blue for the vanity, a color the homeowners love. “Adding the touches of brass in the hardware and lighting really set this room apart,” Kirkendall says. “We have built-in storage for towels, sunscreen and pool necessities and a leather bench to sit down on to change your clothes. The herringbone tile floor was a perfect fit to show some design but keep it simple and classic.” TP

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TULSA COUNTY 2018 HOUSING MARKET STATISTICS CLOSED SALES: 10,196 AVERAGE LIST PRICE: $209,751 AVERAGE SALE PRICE: $204,022 AVERAGE DAYS ON MARKET TO SALE: 43.83 SOURCE: GREATER TULSA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS, MLS TECHNOLOGY INC.

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ome years the markets move up, and some years the markets move down. This ebb and flow of home buying always happens, but can vary in length.

Tim Cochran, president of the Greater Tulsa Association of Realtors, says Tulsa’s full recovery from the last big recession was expected to take quite some time.

“Back then, all the economists figured it would take 8 to 10 years to get us back to where we were,” says Cochran, an agent with Keller Williams Preferred.

It has now been nine years since 2010 — the year Cochran remembers the Tulsa metro area hit bottom. Has the area fully recovered?

As of the end of 2018, the answer is a resounding yes. Although just 9,300 houses sold in 2010, home sales in the Tulsa metro area increased every subsequent year and topped 14,000 in 2018.

Many factors can influence home sales, but Cochran says the top factors are the overall economy and employment levels. Right now both are humming.

“Oil prices being down have affected the Oklahoma economy, but our overall economy is still strong,” he says.

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sification of the area economy has greatly lessened our dependence on oil. Indeed, the oil bust of a few years ago wasn’t enough to stop home sales from growing every 12 months.

That said, local real estate professionals aren’t ready to rest easy. Certain pockets are better and worse than others. Although the tight inventory of homes now gives sellers an advantage, sellers can’t expect aggressive profits from their homes.

“In today’s market, it’s more important than ever that homes are priced right,” Cochran says.

“Homes are taking a little longer to sell, so it makes it a little more important that homes are priced accordingly.”

At the same time, the long years of record-low mortgage interest rates have finally edged upward, though Chris Odom, senior vice president and director of lending at Mabrey Bank, says that rise hasn’t been steady.

“Interest rates went up through 2018, though toward the end of the year, they started trending slightly back down,” he says. “In 2019, they’re likely to go up.”

Though the Federal Reserve has drawn some political scrutiny for raising its prime lending rates over the past year, Odom says residential mortgages are more influenced by U.S. Treasury interest rates, since both are longer-term.

Odom says he expects rising interest rates to impact home buying, as he has noticed home builders are seeking fewer speculative construction loans.

“Local builders are being more cautious, and there’s not as much speculative construction since they don’t want to keep as much inventory,” he says.

Heather Van Hooser, senior vice president and director of private banking at Mabrey Bank, says mortgage-related activity at the bank has not slowed.

“We didn’t see things slowing down,” she says.

“In fact, with interest rates going up, we had more people coming in.”

Van Hooser says she suspects that rising interest rates have encouraged indecisive people to go ahead and buy, since no one expects rates to drop again in the near future.

She adds that although she has seen steady traffic for purchase and home renovation loans, mortgage refinances have plummeted, especially for those individuals who were able to secure historically low rates over the past 10 years.

Overall, Cochran says he’s hopeful this year will be another strong one for Tulsa-area home sales, though the first few months will likely set the tone.

“I’m anxious to see what 2019 holds,” he says.

“I’m optimistic things will continue to improve.” TP

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Paul A. Wheeler

Tulsa

918-665-8559

ALLISON & ASSOCIATES, REALTORS Monte Allison

Broken Arrow

918-251-4444

BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOMESERVICE Stan Gardner Brenda Woodward Robin Wilson John Smucker Lisa Mullins

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CHINOWTH & COHEN Allison C. Sheffield Shawn Peters John Sawyer Gayle Roberts-Pisklo Denise Mink Susie Genet Amanda Dudley Brandi True Carrie DeWeese Amy Prosser Cindy Hand Missy Hagin-Pittman Becky Moore Judy Stocker Kelley Ward Tiffany Johnson Marilyn Morenz Megan Forehand S. C. Clifford

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COLDWELL BANKER SELECT Maureen Kile Corrie Egge Alice Slemp Joanna Ford Trish Allison Deborah McGuire Paula McGuire Jenni Pollard Josh Rainwater Mary Carter Suzanne Mobley Ashley Wozniak Kevin Rhoades Janet Vermillion

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Michelle Bradshaw Tulsa Julie Roberts Tulsa Caroline Gorinsky-Huesler Owasso John Pellow Tulsa Julie Tetsworth Tulsa Greg Ganzkow Bixby Teri Sherwood Sapulpa Chris Swart Broken Arrow

CONCEPT REALTY Robert Kleven

CSEH VOLERE REALTY Amanda Cseh

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ERIN CATRON & CO. Erin Catron

Tulsa

GUTHRIE REALTY LLC Brian Guthrie

Bixby

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KELLER WILLIAMS ADVANTAGE Jennie Wolek Jessica Scott Drew Ary Max Heckenkemper Brent Clark Kasia Olek Ron Johannesen Kathryn French Jackie Proffitt Brandi Fugate Sarah Reynolds

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Brian Frere Ryan Treadway Heidi Bents Chet Wilson Tracy Ellis Suzanne Rentz Jake Salyer Richard Thompson Summer Ratzlaff Julie Hill Deanna Maxwell Julie Mullinax-Villanella Stephanie Ross Juli Edwards Tim Barnes

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MCGRAW, REALTORS Carol Brown Chris Zinn Laura Hawkins Laura Grunewald Curtis Roberts Katy Houchin Allison Jacobs Bob Haywood Laura Bryant John Ragan Sherri Sanders David Palik Frankie Harkey Stephanie Joy Tim Hayes Gini Fox Larry Harral Jillian Ihloff Patty Taylor Mike Keys Diana Patterson Lindy Collins

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PINNACLE REALTY GROUP David Dumont

RE/MAX RESULTS Robb Hopper Julie Shew-Dikeman Kim Parker

REALTY CONNECT Angie Cianfrone

Broken Arrow

918-258-6161

Owasso Owasso Owasso

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THE GARRISON GROUP LLC Kelly Garrison

Tulsa

TRINITY PROPERTIES Carri Ray

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UNIQUE PROPERTIES Debra Jones

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WALTER & ASSOCIATES INC. Peter Walter Blake Loveless Jeff Thomas Dan Martin

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TULSA’S REAL ESTATE ELITE CONGRATS TO MEMBERS OF TULSA’S TOP 100!

Brandi True 918.688.4581

Jack Wallace John Sawyer 918.740.0464 918.289.7065

Susie Genet 918.809.8296

Amanda Dudley 918.520.6514

Jaybee Hawkins 918.404.1416

Carrie DeWeese 918.605.6172

Amy Prosser 918.805.9713

Keeli & Cindy Hand 918.724.1089

Judy Stocker 918.605.0998

Lindsay & Evan Gibson 918.645.9588 918.645.7215

Kelley Ward 918.906.1492

Megan Forehand 918.906.0885

Sheila Young 918.812.9467

Bill Lee 918.625.3518

Tiffany Johnson 918.671.4263

Amber Davis 918.521.8417

Tina Butler 918-740-1000

Marilyn Morenz 918.230.4819

Allison Sheffield 918.951.7009

Shawn Peters 918.808.2239

Gayle Roberts-Pisklo 918.269.7035

Denise Mink 918.284.7874

Missy Hagin-Pittman 918.955.8626

S.C. Clifford 918.637.2090

Oklahoma’s Largest, Independent Real Estate Company • 12 Offices In Northeast Oklahoma 3912 E. 91st, Tulsa, OK 74137 | (918) 392-0900

Heidi McMurray-Bents

Keller Williams Realty Preferred We’ll start as partners in real estate but we will end as friends Heidi McMurray-Bents has the expertise and proven track record to earn the confidence of her clients, buyers and sellers alike. McMurray-Bents’s ability to navigate and negotiate is what sets her apart professionally. She takes the needs of her clients seriously to create a unique and mutually beneficial relationship. Her goal is a successful transaction that ends with a five-star day at the closing table.

A professional Realtor since 1991, McMurray-Bents has served on Keller Williams Preferred Associate Leadership Council and consistently achieves Top Agent for her production volume of sold properties — sometimes out-producing entire teams. Her experience with new construction, renovation specialties and interior design go hand-in-hand when working with clients. She has the knowledge and expertise to help clients purchase their dream home, or achieve a marketable pricing strategy for their home’s successful sale. Sellers gain confidence, knowing that the most professional representation will be made to achieve their financial goals. McMurray-Bents has worked with numerous high-end local builders in the design and marketing of new construction proper-

ties, and has over 25 years of experience in property renovations and remodeling. McMurray-Bents prides herself on her unique ability to assess a home’s marketability and discover properties that meet clients’ expectations.

With a Bachelor’s Degree in Business from ORU and past executive experience owning an advertising franchise business, McMurray-Bents knows what it takes to provide successful strategies and innovative marketing tools in real estate transactions.

McMurray-Bents has achieved the distinction of Top Producer and consistently makes the Top 10 Metro Tulsa single Realtors list. She understands the intensity of the real estate environHeidi McMurray-Bents ment, the climate of the loKeller Williams Realty Preferred cal realty market and how 4745 E. 91st St. to streamline the process of 918 -313-1786 bringing buyer and seller to heidibents.kw.com the closing table.

Maureen Kile Team

Joanna Ford

Corrie Egge Team

Alice Slemp Team

Greg Ganzkow

McGuire Cooley Team

Trish Allison

Paula McGuire Team

Kevin RhoadesTeam

Jenni Pollard

TULSA’S TOP 100 AGENTS of COLDWELL BANKER SELECT John Pellow

Ashley Wozniak

Mary Carter

Josh Rainwater Team

Suzanne Mobley

Tetsworth McClain Team

Janet Vermillion

Caroline Gorinsky-Huesler

Michelle Bradshaw

Julie Roberts

Teri Sherwood

Chris Swart

TOP 100 REALTORS

CONGRATULATIONS! Carol Brown, Chris Zinn, Laura Hawkins, Laura Grunewald, Curtis Roberts, Katy Houchin, Allison Jacobs, Bob Haywood, Laura Bryant, John Ragan, Sherri Sanders, David Palik, Diana Patterson, Frankie Harkey, Stephanie Joy, Tim Hayes, Gini Fox, Larry Harral, Jillian Ihloff, Patty Taylor, Mike Keys, Lindy Collins

Robin Wilson

Robin Wilson

Berkshire Hathaway Home Services Anderson Properties Relationship-first service with a deep love for the industry Robin Wilson was born and raised in Oklahoma and exhibits the small town values and concern for her neighbors that Oklahomans are known for.

Robin is no stranger to hard work. As the former COO and shareholder of the largest privately held durable medical equipment company in the US and the Co-Founder and managing partner in a chain of retail healthcare clinics throughout Oklahoma City, she is a true entrepreneur who has dedicated her life to helping others.

Robin values the ‘relationship first’ approach that she has applied in each endeavor she embarks upon. She is a people person who understands that real estate is essentially a service industry. This commitment level has helped her build a remarkable track record of delivering results. Robin relies on her professional experience dealing with large

transactions and negotiations to bring each of her deals to a smooth and successful close.

In addition to having a Bachelor of Science, graduating with honors, Robin holds a Broker’s license. She is certified in Luxury Homes and Relocation Services.

Whether you are an experienced investor, experienced buyer in the luxury market, relocating to Tulsa or Oklahoma City/Edmond area or a first-time buyer, she can help you find the property of your dreams.

Robin Wilson Berkshire Hathaway Home Services Anderson Properties 5705 E. 71st Street, Suite 250 918-810-1511 wilsonandcompany.net

Richard and Patty Taylor McGraw Realtors

Teamwork proves itself a key ingredient in real estate success Tulsa native Patty Taylor is one of Tulsa’s most decorated realtors, with 30 years of experience as a million dollar agent to her name. She has won numerous customer service awards and many respected designations, but it wasn’t until her collaboration with husband Richard Taylor began 15 years ago that the “team” really took off.

Richard is the technology team leader, and his dedication to staying “on trend” and utilizing the best new tools perfectly complements Patty’s years of experience and her ear-to-the-ground knowledge of Tulsa’s real estate scene. He left a successful business career in engineering and finance to join the team, and hasn’t looked back since.

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personal attention that will create clients and relationships for life.”

Indeed, the team now works on an almost entirely referral-based system, where recommendations from past clients generate new ones.

Patty and Richard believe in the vital nature of being involved in the community, both from a personal and professional standpoint. Patty is a member of Leadership Tulsa, and both she and Richard are active members of Asbury United Methodist.

Richard and Patty Taylor McGraw Realtors 10131 S. Yale Ave. 918-639-9898 www.tulsataylorteam.com

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SPIRITBANK MORTGAGE SpiritBank is constantly innovating to make home ownership more accessible to all.

SpiritBank offers a full line of home loan options including Conventional, FHA, VA, HUD 184 Native American Programs, Jumbo loans and more. Additionally, the bank offers down payment assistance programs, long-term rate locks and loan options with as little as 3 percent down.

Recently, SpiritBank introduced an ITIN Mortgage program. The Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN) mortgage program is for individuals wishing to purchase or refinance their primary/principal 1-4 family residence, but who do not qualify for traditional mortgage programs because they do not possess a social security number.

SpiritBank’s newest mortgage loan officer is Yesett Pina. Pina, who is bilingual, is excited to help Spanish speakers in the community achieve their home ownership dreams.

“We consider ourselves trusted advisors to our clients,” says Pina. “We feel that the best way to find the right loan is to discuss your finances, plans and financial prospects frankly. Our team loves to help you find the best home loan for your specific situation.”

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Over the past 21 years, Laura Grunewald has built a team of experienced real estate professionals dedicated to helping Tulsans buy and sell properties. The team is made up of both listing and buyer specialists in order to provide a higher level of customer service. “Our backgrounds help anyone - whether you’re buying a $100,000 home or selling a $2 million property,” says Grunewald. Grunewald and her team, including Randy Kay Young, Steve Bullard and Krystie Cupp, also dominate in land sales in and around Tulsa.

As the daughter of builder Steve Murphy and the wife of builder Greg Grunewald, Laura Grunewald is intimately familiar with the home-building process, from land purchase to move-in day. She says the most rewarding parts of her job are the relationships she develops with her clients. “We work by referral, which means most of our business comes from our past clients recommending us to their friends and family,” she says.

Laura Grunewald McGraw Realtors

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Summer Ratzlaff

Keller Williams Preferred Realty Big or small, Summer & Co. sells it all.

Summer Ratzlaff helps buyers, sellers and investors with real estate all over the Tulsa area. A member of the 2019 Agent Leadership Council, Ratzlaff is committed to integrity through communication and flexibility.

“I work hard to let people know their needs are a priority, and I work with them from openSummer Ratzlaff ing doors to closing deals,” says Ratzlaff.

Keller Williams Preferred Realty Ratzlaff firmly believes her role is to watch 4745 E. 91st St., Suite 100 out for her clients’ best interests. “I tell people 918-850-6306 that I don’t work all the time, but I will work summersellstulsa.com anytime,” she says.

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Richard Thompson FOR THE LOVE OF REAL ESTATE Richard Thompson has had the pleasure of helping many people during his 14 years as a Realtor. “I make the buying or selling process as stressfree as possible,” says Thompson, who personally handles his clients’ entire processes from start to finish. Thompson believes that since clients put their biggest financial investments in his hands, he must perform at the very highest professional level. “If you want a Realtor that will listen to your concerns and help you find your dream home, I would love to work with you,” says Thompson.

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SKYLINE VIEW Four designers take on the 2019 Blank Slate challenge: “Blue Tulsa,” an embellished print on canvas by Tulsa artist Derek Penix.

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erek Penix is a Tulsa artist whose art has earned him numerous accolades and awards over his years of painting, including the 2016 Gold Medal Award from Oil Painters of America’s 25th National Juried Exhibition.

On Feb. 28 and March 1, Royce Myers Gallery will host receptions for Penix’s first one-man show in Tulsa. Through April at the SoBo District gallery, approximately 30 pieces of Penix’s work will be on display and for sale, including new works from his cityscape series.

“All paintings to me are more about the abstract than the actual subject matter,” Penix says. “The quality of the light, the shapes and colors. But being from Tulsa I was thinking about how I could paint downtown from a unique perspective and this idea was born. An aerial view.”

Many of the paintings at the show will be ones Penix has created over the past year, including a sycamore tree at Philbrook, koi from the Linneaus Teaching Garden and peaches from a tree in Porter.

Penix says Royce Myers was one of the first to inspire the artist as a young man and from that he has been able to show in galleries across the country and teach workshops to other passionate painters. — ANNE BROCKMAN

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This Tulsa cityscape by Tulsa artist Derek Penix is timeless. Placing two vintage 1960s chairs and a midcentury modern coffee table by Joseph Gilbert Artisan Woodworks on a plush shag rug from Rug Fashion Store gives the setting a warm, retro vibe. — ROYCE MYERS, OWNER, ROYCE MYERS GALLERY

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We imagined this beautiful, bright view of downtown Tulsa in a sophisticated yet casual sitting area.

The natural materials of the iconic Albini sofa and the rattan coffee table mixed with an antique runner add warmth and a sense of heritage. The handmade ceramic vase and handwoven pillows lend an artistic vibe, and the midcentury planter rounds out a modern, fresh, bohemian mix. — LISA WAKEFIELD, OWNER, JENKINS AND CO.

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My vision for this challenge was to create an inviting space that is perfect for entertaining but also provides a quiet place to relax and unwind. These are the spaces we all desire in our homes, and when you can achieve several functions in one space it allows for a more efďŹ cient use of your home.

The combination of traditional and current styles, along with the layering of natural materials and textures, come together to create a curated look that is timeless and inviting while letting the art be the focal point of the room. — SHERRI DUVALL, PRINCIPAL DESIGNER/OWNER, DUVALL ATELIER

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Anchoring the painting with a neutral base, like this gray console, opens the option to highlight colors in the painting with accessories. Instead of holding on to the blue in the painting for color cues, citron glass lamps and a pear green velvet bench provide a coordinating and colorful burst.

I imagine this setting to be in a room for entertaining. An easy way to add in color and grab-and-go function is with glass beverage bottles — Topo Chico happens to be the favorite at our house — so I used it here, too.

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One of Hawley’s newest designs, the Wow Coffee Table, is available in a variety of finishes. $1,695.

Mark Hawley’s custom burl end Z Table. $2,900.

Dining tables, chairs and bar stools are popular items at Hawley.

Cognac counter stool, $350.

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“I try and put energy into every piece,” he says.

His work can be seen locally in commercial and residential projects, but most notably at his Pearl District storefront, which he owns with his wife, Christine Booth. Most of the items in the store are designed by Hawley and built just a few blocks away by master craftsmen with American-sourced wood and other materials. Professional design services also are available by interior designer Johnna Daniels.

As items sell on the showroom floor, tweaks to materials, colors or finishing touches might be changed, but the overall design remains. Showroom pieces not designed by Hawley must meet strict quality standards and must be overall aesthetically pleasing and fit the modern and contemporary aesthetic.

If a customer can’t find what they’re looking for, Hawley can help.

“It’s unique that a customer can come in here with an idea, or I can take a blank sheet of paper and draw what the customer is describing.” TP

The Shatter Glass Desk is an original Mark Hawley design. $5,995.

This Ripple Cigar Table features a granite top in Mark Hawley’s early signature Ripple legs. $695.

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or Mark Hawley, building furniture has been a lifelong obsession.

“Ever since I was little I was gluing, clamping, sanding things,” Hawley says, reminiscing about working with his dad, an engineer with a passion for woodworking. In high school at Edison, Hawley excelled in woodshop and wound up at the University of Oklahoma, where he graduated with a degree in product design in 1976.

While on the way to Dallas to take a job, Hawley stopped in Oklahoma City to meet with Carson See, a Nichols Hills furniture designer.

See ended up hiring the recent college graduate as an assistant, giving Hawley an invaluable apprenticeship with a master of the trade, according to Hawley. After work and on weekends, Hawley built his own furniture and eventually landed jobs designing pieces for restaurants and dining rooms.

Three years later, an opportunity in Tulsa brought him back to his hometown, and for 40 years, Hawley has designed, built and shown his pieces.

“I always tried to do more modern furniture while others were more traditional,” Hawley says.

In 1983 he created his signature Ripple Line, which features wavy legs on tables, desks and chairs. Pieces from the collection have appeared in national magazines and newspapers, along with TV shows “Star Trek” and “Extreme Home Makeover.”

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BEYOND CITY LIMITS

Much to do in Dallas ONLY FOUR HOURS AWAY, OUR BIG-CITY NEIGHBOR HAS PLENTY TO ENTERTAIN.

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KELLER’S DRIVE-IN 6537 E. Northwest Highway This modest roadside eatery has been serving the Metroplex for more than 50 years, and not much has changed on its simple menu. The hamburgers are famously served on poppy-seed buns.

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KLYDE WARREN PARK 2012 Woodall Rodgers Freeway This 5.2-acre park is an urban green space that provides daily free public programming in downtown Dallas. There are walking trails, play spaces for kids, a dog park and a performance pavilion.

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If the weather permits, a walk around downtown Dallas is a lovely way to spend an afternoon. There is some great architecture, like the 1892 red sandstone courthouse and the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge, as well as plenty of shopping and greenspace. There is a cluster of sculptures in PIONEER PLAZA, 1428 Young St., replicating a cattle drive that’s fun for a few photos.

Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge

EATZI’S MARKET AND BAKERY Multiple locations across the Metroplex Think of it like the produce/fresh foods section of the grocery store, but everything is prepared by professional chefs. You can get sandwiches and salads to grilled salmon and steak. Dining is available on-site, or you can take your food to-go. TP

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REUNION TOWER, 300 Reunion Blvd. E. On the west side of downtown, a 561-foot tower and globe provides the best view of the city skyline. It’s not far from the Sixth Floor Museum. It costs to park on-site and you also have to pay for tickets for access to the observation deck, but if you’re looking for a special place to have dinner or see the city, there’s no substitute. The Hyatt Regency Dallas is next door.

FRONTIERS OF FLIGHT MUSEUM AT LOVE FIELD 6911 Lemmon Ave. Inside a 100,000-square-foot facility, the museum displays feature a World War I Sopwith airplane replica, an exhibit for the Hindenburg airship and the Apollo 7 Command Module, among many others. Check out the Vought V-173 “Flying Pancake” for a real mind-bending look into what’s possible in the world of aviation.

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Urgent care vs. emergency room KNOWING WHICH OPTION IS RIGHT FOR YOU

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hen you can’t be seen by your primary care physician for an injury or an illness, you still have options: urgent care or the emergency room.

But how to decide which option is best? Understanding the difference between the level of care you receive could save your life in the event of a medical emergency.

“Recognizing the difference between an ‘emergency’ and ‘urgent’ care may be confusing, because both (terms) indicate there’s a medical need to be addressed,” says Dr. Stan Stacy of My Doctor Urgent Care of Tulsa. “That said, we typically see patients of all ages and treat them for a variety of lesser injuries and non-life-threatening illnesses.”

At his facility, medical professionals can diagnose and treat orthopedic injuries, as well as some illnesses. That might include fever, nausea, strains and sprains, or minor wound care.

However, patients with indications of altered mental status, stroke-like symptoms, severe chest pain, significant shortness of breath or an obvious critical medical crisis — “for those things, a person should go straight to the emergency room,” Stacy says.

“I think most people have a general sense of how severe their health issues are and most parents have an idea of just how sick their kids are,” says Dr. Jeff Dixon who practices with Hillcrest HealthCare System. “If they have the sense that they’re really sick or that they might end up in the hospital, they might as well go straight to the ER.” Typically, urgent care staff includes a doctor, medical assistants and also physician’s assistants to see patients. Urgent care facilities also have X-ray equipment and “basic lab” capabilities, allowing them to perform a urinalysis, drug tests and test for the flu, although these services might differ between urgent care facilities. TP

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Your dog’s eyes can have a runny discharge for a number of reasons. Ear infections can cause the eyes to discharge. Of course, infections of the eyes can also be a cause, as well as blocked tear ducts. If it happens just one time during the year, such as Spring or Fall, it can be due to allergies.

Your veterinarian can perform a complete examination to rule out any of the above causes.

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aximizing your yard’s attributes and minimizing its problems to create a beautiful street-side view does not have to be difficult, daunting or expensive. No matter your style, plant preferences or budget, here are some ideas to consider.

GARDENING

CREATE IMPACT. Plant in groupings and shapes.

Passersby will definitely notice the impact of a collection of plants that reflects the shape and lines of the house and walkways. Use large shapes and masses that are attractive from a distance, but be sure to not block windows, doors or the house facade. A variety of plants makes the yard look larger by giving the eye more textures, colors and shapes to view.

TURN TO THE COLOR WHEEL. Consider the color of your house when choosing lanscape plants. For example, a blue house feels calm and collected accented by a collection of purple, pink, yellow and white flowers. Alternatively, red trim will pop with flowers in orange, bright yellow and red. Try a garden that contains the same colors as your home or create contrast by going to the opposite side of the color wheel.

KEEP IT LOW-MAINTENANCE. Even if you love gardening and all its associated tasks, an elaborate garden can be considered a negative by a potential new buyer. Keep it clean. Examples: petunias that won’t litter petals everywhere; shrubs that don’t require a lot of tender, loving care.

GO GREEN FOR ALL SEASONS. A landscape that goes dormant in the winter can look foreboding and uninviting. So, plant a variety of evergreens to keep your yard looking classically beautiful through all seasons, as their foliage offers a wealth of textures and colors. Choose from a wide range of evergreens, including groundcovers, dwarf shrubs and large trees. Be sure to select evergreens that mature to the ultimate size you want so your yard won’t end up an overgrown mess.

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BOOSTING CURB APPEAL ATTRACTS NEIGHBORS, HOME BUYERS AND LIFTS HOMEOWNERS’ SPIRITS.

BY ALLEN ROBINSON add a patio. Decorate the patio with a skirt of flowers or a small hedge to help it seem more intimate and enclosed. Add a bench to provide a place for a gathering of shrubs and perennials.

USE CONTAINERS. A container garden provides a riot of color even if your front yard is primarily paved.

A handful of large pots filled with bright or fragrant flowers can transform your front landscape into a work of art. Consider installing a simple drip-irrigation system to make containers easier to maintain.

LET NATURE BE YOUR GUIDE. Answer the call of the wild in your yard by simply following nature’s lead.

Select plants and other landscape materials native to your region. The birds and butterflies that they attract will enchant you and your guests. Incorporate a birdbath or bird feeder to attract even more birds. Spend time looking out from your windows as you design. That way you will enjoy the view looking out as much as passersby enjoy looking into the garden.

BLEND NATURE AND ART. Blend natural and artificial elements to give your yard an established, comfortable look. Use hardscape materials, such as boulders near the path, then use groundcovers (pachysandra) and/or flowering shrubs (azalea, rhododendron and pieris) to soften the look of stone. Look for features from your home to guide your design. For instance, use small trees to echo pillars on a porch or use a water feature based on the shape of one of your home’s architectural elements.

Boosting curb appeal does not have to be difficult. Consider these tips to help you think outside of the box. In doing so, you will have the best-looking front yard on the block. TP

Thank you to Tulsa County Master Gardeners for their expertise in this subject matter. Allen Robinson has been a Master Gardener since 2010.

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EMPHASIZE THE RITE OF PASSAGE. The eye should move from the street to the front door in a pleasing way. Think of ways to break up the visual “journey.”

• Create a bend in a walkway to offer a softer and gentler look.

• Install a curved border edged in easy-care plants such as boxwood and variegated hostas to add a note of grace and elegance.

• Place urns on either side of a curve.

• Plant a garden around your mailbox.

• Entice guests to walk through your garden by splitting your path so more sections of your landscape are accessible to inspection.

• Choose a more interesting material (bricks, flagstone, pavers) rather than cement to lend charm and to make the trip to your front door even more memorable.

• Finally, include some fragrant varieties to add to your landscape’s sensory appeal.

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THE LITTLE PEWTER CAR

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n the darkest misery of my Lord-Lord-willthis-ever-end home repair saga, a happy incident surfaced. Literally.

Patrick, the long-suffering carpenter, emerged from the damp crawlspace with a little pewter toy car in his hand. It had been stuck for years in an old water pipe. I live in Florence Park in an old house built in 1928. No child has lived here for decades.

I posted a photograph of the car on Facebook asking for help in identifying it and had a rush of suggested answers. Most likely, the car is a miniature replica of a 1936 Cord, but other possibilities are Packard, Pierce Arrow, Rolls Royce or Duesenberg. Nostalgia Miniatures’ little pewter cars, packaged in blue boxes, were popular in the 1930s.

Ironically, the original part of my house is as stout as an ox. It’s the room I added in 2001 that has rained woe and repairs on me. I love my home and I like history, and the little car inspired to me to research the property with an enthusiasm that amused the people at the abstract company.

I opened the thick abstract of yellowed pages and stepped into history. The fi rst document, signed by future President Millard Fillmore in 1842, identified the tract of land the United States government was conveying to the “Creek (Muskogee) Tribe of Indians” for “so long as they shall exist as a nation.” (Hold this thought

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because I’ll return to it.) The documents are studded with historic names of importance, including the great Creek Chief Pleasant Porter.

We all know what happened. Federal treaties were breached and the communal lands of the Five Tribes were divided into allotments for individual tribal citizens. In 1907, the land where I live was part of a 120-acre allotment assigned to John W. Perryman, a member of the large Perryman family that founded Tulsa.

John was a minor, 8 years old, and identified as one-half Creek blood. His mother was full-blood Creek Clarissa Perryman, married to Jack Bell, who was John W.’s stepfather and guardian at the time. By the federal dictates, guardians managed the oil, gas and coal rights of Indian land owners. John and his mother signed documents with an X or a thumbprint. In subsequent documents, the young attorney representing John and Clarissa was P. J. Hurley, who became known to the world as Patrick Hurley, U.S. Secretary of War from 1929-1933.

John and Clarissa lived in Wagoner County, but their Tulsa property churned with legal and financial activities. Oil and gas mining leases were sold, resold and mortgaged for astronomical amounts. The price for one 1914 lease was $55,000, the equivalent of $1.4 million in today’s money. Later, the property was sold at a sheriff ’s auction for back taxes, and John had to buy back his own land.

The abstract records show how the property and the wildcat boom catapulted John W. and Clarissa to lives as colorful as characters in a novel. At age 17, John married a 17-year-old girl named Aurelia who immediately sued for divorce and got a substantial financial settlement. Clarissa remarried, and she and her new husband used the property as collateral to buy a new Packard car valued at $6,311. I hope these were not fraudulent marriages.

Sadly, drilling for oil on the property came to naught. For a while, a coal mining company (with a one-mule team wagon) operated on it. Th is was when coal mining was a going concern in what is now the Tulsa Fairgrounds area. That came to naught, too. By 1923, the property was platted and annexed by the City of Tulsa for homes to be built. The land’s roiling history calmed and in the mid-1930s, when the little car was lost, it was owned by a family named Moffat.

And now, in a great circle of history, the Carpenter v. Murphy case currently before the U.S. Supreme Court will determine if Congress did or did not dissolve the Muskogee (Creek) Nation. If not, my little patch of property in Tulsa, along with 10 other counties, is still Creek Nation.

In the Creek language, there is no word for goodbye. Native speakers say instead hvtvm cehecares: “I will see you again.”

Hello, John W. and Clarissa. I’m caring for your land with hollyhocks and roses. TP

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ONE ACRE MIDTOWN 4303 S Lewis Ave - One Level Contemporary on one acre in Mid-town! Study, Formal Dining, Game/Media Room, Mud-room and Prep-kitchen. Great room opens to chef’s kitchen & nook. Master with spa bath. 3 additional En-suite bedrooms.

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GRAND LAKE Views, Views, Views, from this well maintained lake home in the Coves!

This 4 BR, 3 BA lakehouse has a new kitchen with 2 ovens, huge island, extra large fridge, all stainless, large game room upstairs, with 2 bedrooms up and 2 down with the spacious living and kitchen area. Golf course & Cherokee Yacht Club are just a golf cart ride away. $685,000

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1567 E 35th Street, Tulsa Brookside newer construction with Master down and granite/stainless kitchen. Covered outdoor patio looks to beautifully landscaped yard with mature trees. 2 bedrooms up with gameroom. Safe room in garage. $515,000

BALMORAL RESUB MUZINGO HILL 2527 E 66th Place, Tulsa Relax on the covered patio facing Southern Hills golf course. Open floor plan w/ master + 2nd bedroom on the first floor & a guest suite w/ kitchenette on 2nd level. Walk out attic. $475,000

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3116 S. Atlanta | $597,500 Custom built with an amazing lay out for entertaining and every day living. Spacious formal living and dining room with beautiful windows and moldings. Spacious kitchen with breakfast nook, family room + Sun room. Master suite is oversized having his/her closets and baths. 3 additional bedrooms on the second floor. Beautiful pool area with classic gazebo and built-in grill.

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1425 E 21st Street Updated Midtown home across from Woodward Park. 3 bed, 2.5 baths & large living room with new brick fireplace.

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Impeccable home w/outdoor Kitchen, pool/spa. Chef’s Kitchen w/2 sinks, warming oven, beverage frig. Luxurious Master Suite w/FP & sitting area. Wood shutters throughout. Huge Game Room+ bonus room. New Roof! $549,000.

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Contemporary New Construction located in gated Wind River Crossing. Family w/modern FP & shelving. Huge gourmet Kitchen/ Hearth Room. Luxurious Master Suite. Large Guest Suite down.

Game and Theater Rooms up. Jenks SE. $610,000.

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2418 E 25th Place, Tulsa, OK Kenlawn II Darling Midtown bungalow. New granite kitchen with new stainless appliances and custom cabinets, updated bathrooms. 2 living areas, built-ins, new paint, hardwoods throughout. Gunite pool with new heat pump. Floored attic, 2 car garage. $339,000

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2431 S Trenton Avenue Beautiful renovation of a classic midtown home featuring a flexible floorplan with downstairs master.

Kitchen w/high end appl opens to vaulted family room overlooking outdoor living area. 3 beds/office up. Professionally landscaped. Completely Updated. $945,000

2105 E 24th Street Perfect midtown location near Cascia Hall, Utica Square, & St John. Gorgeous contemporary home. Large art walls w/ 20 ft ceilings. Master suite on main level. 2nd level with 2 bedrooms & additional living space. Courtyard with heated pool. $649,999

2818 E 48th Street Unique mid-century home with a beautiful modern interior. Updated kitchen and baths with designer finishes throughout. 3 beds, 2 baths, 2 living areas with a double sided fireplace. The home is on a large treed lot on a quiet street. $394,900

3404 W Gary Street Pristine home in Rushbrooke South! Beautiful kitchen w/wood beamed ceilings opens to large family room with fireplace. Private office and formal dining. Master down with his/her closet. 2nd bed down/2 beds up.

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36764 Cliff Crest Dr., Langley

Cliff Crest. Incredible Langley Bluff lake front. Beautiful full brick home. Close to marinas, shopping, & restaurants. Just 1 hour m/l to Tulsa. 1 owner custom built 4+ beds w/3+ living areas. Open kitchen w/den & formal dining. Inside views of lake summer & winter. $559,900

Private Gated Estate on 26 Acres - Broken Arrow 5412 E Princeton Street, Impeccably maintained private gated Estate on 26+ acres. Attention to every detail. Breathtaking grounds with manicured gardens. All bedrooms with private baths. 2 masters down.

Pool & spa. 15 car heat/cool garage. 4 attached/11 detached. Outbuildings/ Paddocks. $3,850,000

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Cliff Crest. Langley Bluff (2) lakefront & (3) lots on the other side of road. Build your dream home and build your shop on the (3) lots. Close to Tulsa. Ready for development.

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Beautiful 2015 Brighton Village home w/4 BR’s, 2.5 BA & 3 car. Upgrades are noticeable & throughout.

Located in a cul-de-sac & is near the subdivision’s pool & club house. Study on the 1st floor. Hardwood floors.

Open kitchen/living/dining combo. Stone stacked FP. Game room up. Locker area & storage off garage. Walk in pantry. Fully fenced. Walk out attic space for storage.

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Ridgelawn. Great location, Cherry Street & Downtown. Classy renovated full brick 1940’s cottage. New roof, kitchen, bath, laundry room, 2 closets in bedroom. Unique style with quality updates. $144,900

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9718 S Knoxville Avenue - $1,150,000 Stunning custom built executive home located in prestigious Crown Pointe. The professional landscaping, circle drive & Silverdale stone exterior offer exceptional curb appeal. Highlights include 4+ Bdrms, 5 full Baths, 2 half Baths, Formal Living/Dining, Family, bar, pool & Gamerms. A Bonus Room with separate heat/air system is located on lower level. This property offers multiple areas for comfortable living/entertaining. List price includes home furniture, washer and dryer, Brunswick pool table & more.

Located in highly desirable Terwilleger Heights. Charming 3 bed, 3.5 bath home with 2 car garage plus portecochere for additional parking. Historical detail entire home with fully remodeled kitchen and bathrooms.

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ue Gusto has made a name for itself in Tulsa with its South American and Latin avors and locally sourced products in an environmentally conscious restaurant. At lunch, a line forms for empanadas and daily specials, many with meat, vegetarian and vegan options.

This time, we opted for the slow-roast pork sandwich ($9.50) that features juicy Ecuadorian-style pork, dressed with lettuce, tomato, avocado, pickled onions and chipotle-lime mayonnaise on crunchy white bread. Diners go crazy for Que Gusto’s yucca fries, a different take on an American staple. TP 105 N. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. BLVD. | 918-851-2989 QUEGUSTOTULSA.COM

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Lucky

Many of us are spending more and more time at Gathering Place. And after hours spent walking and discovering, it’s time to eat.

Here are some spots to try that are just a walk, bike ride or zoom on a scooter away. — NATALIE MIKLES (PRICES: $: LESS THAN $10 $$: $10-$15 $$$: $16-$25 $$$$: OVER $25)

LIBATION Irish cream liqueur is a luxurious accoutrement to a variety of beverages that adds a hint of sweetness and a swirl of creaminess.

Most liquor cabinets have a bottle of Bailey’s standing at the ready, but it is just as easy — and far more delicious — to whip up your own Irish cream.

The mixture of your favorite Irish whiskey, cream, condensed milk and a splash of cocoa creates a smooth aperitif that is perfect in coffee or sipped on the rocks. Once prepared, homemade Irish cream can last in the refrigerator for up to a month, and can be used not only in beverages — hello, White Russian! — but also can be used in your favorite desserts, like cake frosting or French toast. This recipe makes approximately 3 ½ cups.

1 teaspoon unsweetened cocoa powder 1 teaspoon instant espresso or coffee powder 1 cup whipping cream (half and half can be substituted for a slightly “thinner” result) 1 14-ounce can sweetened condensed milk ½ teaspoon vanilla extract 1 cup Irish whiskey (use a smooth variety like Tullamore Dew) In a bowl, combine cocoa and espresso powder with a spoonful of cream. Mix together until a paste forms.

Continue to slowly add cream until mixture is loose enough to add remaining liquid. In a pitcher, whisk the cocoa/coffee/cream mixture with the can of condensed milk, whiskey and vanilla until well blended.

Cover and chill in refrigerator. Will keep for up to a month. — ANGELA EVANS

The Patio and Redbud Cafe at the Gathering Place

The Patio is more than a snack bar. Located just east of the Lodge, the Patio is a great place for wraps and sandwiches, burgers and fries, pizza and chicken strips. Redbud Cafe, on the lower level of the Lodge, is where you’ll find all the sweets, from ice cream to cookies and cupcakes, plus candy and coffee. The Vista at the Boathouse, the largest of the restaurants at Gathering Place, will open soon. We can’t wait for those views from the outdoor patio.

Old School Bagel

Before heading to Gathering Place, make a stop at Old School bagel for the best bagels and cream cheese. For a full breakfast, the Healthy Start bagel is perfect — egg whites, ham, spinach, tomatoes and white cheddar are so good on a plain or sesame seed bagel. Kids will love choosing their favorite bagel with peanut butter and jelly or Nutella. Lunch sandwiches fill the menu, too.

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Blue Rose Cafe

Bricktown Brewery is the place to go with a group since everyone can find something on the menu. It’s great for burgers, nachos and pizza, and also sandwiches like the hatch green chile chicken or big meatloaf sandwich. Also delicious is the fried chicken salad packed with broccoli, apples, bacon, peppers, raisins and the star — the fried chicken.

Walk or bike down the River Parks path to Blue Rose Cafe for lunch on the deck. Blue Rose is known for its burgers, big portions and shareable appetizers. Pick a few divide-and-conquer foods, like wings tossed in a jalapeño cream sauce with Parmesan cheese. Or pass around a plate of cheese fries, loaded with bacon and ranch for dipping.

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Antoinette Baking Co. 207 N. Main St. | 918-764-8404 | antoinettebakingco.com

Ludger’s Bavarian Cakery 6527 E. 91st St. | 918-622-2537 | ludgersbavariancakery.com

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DINING OUT

Bakeshop

The mother load Bodhi’s Bowl

MOTHER ROAD MARKET DISHES UP ROUTE 66 NOSTALGIA WITH TULSA-CENTRIC FARE.

BY NATALIE MIKLES

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n a rainy Friday evening, some of the merchants at Mother Road Market, 1124 S. Lewis Ave., worried it might be a slow night. But by 6 o’clock, the place was packed.

Umbrellas were shaken out and placed by the door, as people strolled around the market. Even those who knew exactly what they were there for made the loop, circling around to check out what was happening at each of the shops and dining spots.

“Oh, I get it, it’s like a food court,” said a firsttimer to the market.

Yes, it’s like a food court, but a really great food court with fresh, local fare.

Mother Road Market, 1124 S. Lewis Ave., is a nonprofit project of the Lobeck Taylor Family Foundation, featuring more than 20 restaurants and retail concepts. This includes some names Tulsans are familiar with, like Andolini’s, and others that are new. Some of the newcomers were part of Kitchen 66, a program of the Lobeck Taylor Family Foundation that kickstarts Tulsans with great restaurant or food concepts, giving them kitchen space and business training.

Now some of those Kitchen 66 graduates, including Bakeshop, Bodhi’s Bowl and Big Dipper Creamery, have space at Mother Road Market.

“We’ve enjoyed a tremendous amount of success since opening in November, with overall sales exceeding more than $1 million in our first 45 days,” says Ashley Van Horne, chief communications officer for the Lobeck Taylor Family Foundation.

Van Horne and Jeff Thompson, general manager of Mother Road Market, say there’s something for everyone, including vegan and vegetarian and even food for picky kids.

Thompson says customers have been particularly excited about the hot chicken sandwiches at Chicken and the Wolf by Danielle and Philip

Phillips, owners of Lone Wolf Banh Mi. Judging by the long lines, customers also are loving ice cream and double-decker ice cream sandwiches at Big Dipper Creamery by Sami and Brian Cooper and the artfully created wraps and salads at Radish, owned by chef Seth Smith and his wife, Melissa.

James Wegner with Bodhi’s Bowl says having a space at Mother Road Market has given his business tremendous visibility.

“It has also given me access to a kitchen where my guests can see exactly what it is we do in my kitchen,” Wegner says. “I love being able to look over my shoulder to interact with customers.”

Bakeshop’s Emily Landry says she has been blown away by the customer response, including selling out almost every day of the shop’s lemon apricot scone.

“We’ve been really pleased with the reception we’ve received from Mother Road Market visitors, and are enjoying the community between all the different businesses in the market,” she says. “It has been thrilling to be part of such a huge new attraction in the Tulsa community.”

Mother Road Market is open 10 a.m.-9 p.m., Tuesday-Thursday; 10 a.m.-10 p.m., Friday-Saturday; 10 a.m.-9 p.m., Sunday. Here’s a look at what Mother Road Market has to offer. & TACOS From the popular food truck Pollo Al Carbon, owners Mario Mazedo and Daniel Ruiz bring the best of traditional Mexican street food to the market.

The place to be Warmer weather means it’s time to enjoy the covered patio at Mother Road Market. Diners can find a seat to eat outside or watch their kids play on the turf area. The patio also has space for yoga classes and Mother Road Mini Golf, a nine-hole mini golf course featuring landmarks from Route 66.

The market has many diverse and fun events in March, including free classes by the Tulsa Master Gardeners, sourdough workshops by Living Kitchen Farm and Dairy and cooking classes from Oklahoma State University Culinary Department. For more information on these events, visit motherroadmarket.com/events.

ANDOLINI’S SLICED Tulsans are familiar with the big slices of pie, which you can fold New York style or eat with a fork and knife. Don’t forget to save room for Andolini’s authentic Italian gelato.

BAKESHOP Most people can’t walk by Bakeshop without staring. Rows of small-batch, artisan goodies like cookies, muffins, cupcakes, granola and bread draw in customers.

BIG DIPPER CREAMERY Ice cream is made fresh and locally, with flavors like salted caramel with brown butter ganache and honeycomb lavender among customer favorites. For a real treat, sandwich your favorite flavor between two sugar or chocolate chip cookies.

BODHI’S BOWL Gourmet rice bowls are the draw here. The two most popular are the vegan Chakra Chana, a chickpea masala, and the Red Bird Bangkok, an authentic Thai coconut curry bowl.

FORSYTHE CREATIVE

CHICKEN AND THE WOLF Don’t be surprised to find a line here while people wait for Nashville-style hot chicken sandwiches. Try it topped with coleslaw and pickles. Warning: It’s spicy!

EDIBLEND Find your favorite juice blends and ready-to-go salads at the Ediblend kiosk.

THE FARM STAND Operated by the Tulsa Farmers’ Market, shoppers can find locally sourced produce, dairy, meat, fruits, vegetables and more.

KITCHEN 66 GENERAL STORE Household items, packaged foods and Mother Road Market swag await at the General Store. Shoppers can now find A New Leaf ’s fresh-cut flowers and succulents inside the General Store.

METROPOLIS All your favorite street food under one roof. Metropolis, from the guys at Andolini’s, has Philly cheese steaks, Italian beef sandwiches, pretzels, cannoli, New York City-style hot dogs and more.

MYTHIC PRESS This is the place for screen-printed and embroidered Tulsa-themed and Route 66 apparel and more.

THE NEST This popular Cherry Street shop brings some of its customer favorites, like candles, kitchen decor and gifts to the Mother Road.

NICE GUYS SHRIMP SHACK Beachy fried coconut shrimp, tortilla chips, made-to-order guacamole and batido milkshakes are on the menu at this shrimp shack, from the creators of the Mr. Nice Guys food truck.

OK COOKIE MOMSTER If you’ve had cookies from OK Cookie Momster’s shop in midtown, you know

how good they are. So what makes these different?

Every cookie is warmed before being served.

OKLAHOMA JOE’S BAR-B-CUE This is the space to go for championship-style ribs, brisket and chicken, plus great potato salad, mac and cheese, and okra. All your favorites from Oklahoma Joe’s are right here.

RADISH A great place to stop for lunch or dinner on the healthier side. Radish has a blend of Mediterranean and American dishes, with great items like a rotisserie chicken platter and baba ghanoush.

TRENCHERS CRUSTACEAN STATION Lobster rolls are always in season at the Trenchers cart. Also find fun extras like chocolate-covered ice cream sandwiches and retro blackberry Clearly Canadians.

UMAMI FRIES Brought to you by the folks behind Gogi Gui Korean Grill, these meaty, crispy fries are fried twice with a house-made batter. Toppings include bulgogi beef, chicken or kimchi. Or choose from more than a dozen seasonings and extras.

THE WEL BAR Grab a beer or stay awhile for a glass of wine, hand-crafted cocktail or a cup of coffee.

The WEL Bar is a fun place for lingering and people watching. TP TulsaPeople.com

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W H AT’S COOK ING? The buzz on Tulsa’s tastiest products, restaurants and events

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e’re peeking around the corner to spring. If you squint, you can see dinner on a patio in Brookside, picnics at Gathering Place and long walks after a weekend brunch.

A pretty and packed salad is one way to usher in spring to the kitchen table. Salads never go out of season, of course, but certain salads just sing out for spring.

The classic combo of spinach with strawberries and a poppy-seed vinaigrette dressing is one such salad. And it’s even better with crisp rounds of goat cheese. Goat cheese “croutons” are made by coating slices of goat cheese in egg followed by panko, and then frying in a bit of hot oil. The result is a crunchy outside and creamy inside that’s just perfect on a salad with spring strawberries, lettuce, cucumber and red onion.

This salad makes just enough for 2-3 people. Use a good bottled poppy-seed dressing if you don’t have the time to make your own.

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1 (4-ounce) goat cheese log 2 tablespoons flour 1 egg 1 tablespoon milk ¼ cup panko breadcrumbs Salt and pepper Vegetable oil 2 handfuls mixed greens 1 cucumber, peeled and sliced 1 cup sliced fresh strawberries ¼ cup sliced red onion

Cut goat cheese into five rounds. Place on a baking sheet, and freeze for 20 minutes.

Gather three bowls. In one, place flour. In the second, combine egg and milk. In the third, combine panko, salt and pepper. For each slice, place goat cheese first in flour, then egg mixture and then panko mixture, pressing coating into goat cheese. If your kitchen is warm and breading is falling off, place in refrigerator for 10 minutes or until crumbs adhere.

In a large skillet, heat oil until hot. Add goat cheese rounds, browning on each side, a few minutes per side.

To serve salad, combine salad greens, cucumber, strawberries and red onion. Top with goat cheese croutons and poppy-seed vinaigrette, to taste.

Just a touch of mayo in this dressing gives it a little creaminess.

POPPY-SEED VINAIGRETTE Makes 1 cup ¼ ¼ 1 1 ½ ½ 2

cup white wine vinegar cup sugar clove garlic, minced tablespoon poppy seeds teaspoon kosher salt cup olive oil teaspoons mayonnaise

In a bowl, whisk the vinegar and sugar until the sugar is fully incorporated. Add the garlic, poppy seeds and salt, and whisk to combine.

While whisking, pour a steady stream of olive oil, continuing to whisk until fully combined.

Whisk in mayo. Keep in the refrigerator, tightly closed, for one week.

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Dane Tannehill and Jeramy Auld

Q& A

Since it opened about a year ago, Jane’s Delicatessen, 2626 E. 11th St., has become a favorite place to go for deli favorites, comfort food, fun drinks and the unexpected. The Mother Road dining spot has a full bar, a small market and offers custom catering services. From the breads to the meats and vegan options, everything is prepared and cooked in-house. Owners Dane Tannehill and Jeramy Auld are inspired by Jewish delicatessens in New York, Eastern European food and their grandmothers’ cooking.

TELL US ABOUT YOUR DECISION TO OPEN JANE’S. When I (Dane) was a kid, I worked in a butcher shop in Blackwell and built sandwiches for the deli side of the shop. When I moved to Tulsa, I wanted to open a bar with sandwiches. My wife started buying me delicatessen books, and I got really into the idea of this concept rather than the bar idea.

WHAT ARE THE MOST POPULAR FOODS ON THE MENU AT JANE’S? The biggest sellers from the sandwich side of the menu are pretty much a tie between the Chas Turkey, the Reuben and the American Dunk. The favorite dinner entrée has always been the Pork and Perogies, but the item we sell the

most is our poutine. How can you go wrong with brown gravy, local cheese curds and fries?

WHAT WOULD WE HEAR IN THE KITCHEN AT JANE’S? A lot of laughter. We are so lucky to have a very diverse and fun staff in the kitchen. They work extremely hard, and they work well together. We feel that our diversity lends itself to what a deli truly is at its heart: recipes from diverse Old World ethnicities to feed an even more diverse community at a reasonable price.

Within one shift you could hear T.I., the Offspring, video game anthems, Taylor Swift, Creed, Johnny Cash and even some Owl City. It’s a lot of fun back there, and I think it’s reflected in the food they put out to the guests.

WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE TULSA FOOD SCENE? The Tulsa food scene is young but vibrant. It has really started to pick up steam over the last two or three years with unique and interesting concepts. A lot of awesome entities in Tulsa are helping push the envelope, like Kitchen 66 and others. Tulsa is really starting to see great places open outside of the IDL and north of East 61st Street. We went out on a huge limb in opening up something like this and have been extremely blessed that Tulsans visited to see what we are all about.

Denver Grill

COFFEE BLUES: ANNE BROCKMAN; DENVER GRILL: COURTESY CHARLES CLAYBROOK

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STUDIO ROW’S COFFEEHOUSE The Coffee Blues recently opened at 315 S. Trenton Ave. in the heart of Tulsa’s own Studio Row. Just a stone’s throw from the historic Church Studio, the coffeehouse has become a popular spot for coffee and breakfast items in the morning. The Avocado Toast ($4.50) selections have proven to be popular, and can also be served sandwich-style for carryout orders.

As the day progresses, the Coffee Blues’ selection of beer, wine and cocktails, as well as shareable plates like the Studio Row Tacos ($2 each), have made this small respite popular for crowds at night.

Music memorabilia and art fittingly decorate the space. Soon brunch and live music will be a part of Coffee Blues.

Lost restaurants of Tulsa

Restaurants might come and go in Tulsa, but many have made their mark on our city’s history for their food, service, owners and atmosphere. Here’s one serving of Tulsa’s gastronomic history from the book “Lost Restaurants of Tulsa.”

When most people think of the Denver Grill downtown, they remember the little diner at West Third Street and South Denver Avenue with the iconic neon sign and 1950s mural on the exterior wall. People may also remember chatting with Peggy Jones, the beloved owner of the Denver Grill from 1983 until the building was demolished in late 2004. The Denver Grill, however, had several lives before the era of nostalgia and urban renewal.

The Denver Grill originally opened in 1933, occupying a modest building near East First Street and South Denver Avenue. Brothers Al and Bud Claybrook served food 24 hours a day through the Great Depression and beyond. After Bud moved on to the Silver Castle in Whittier Square, Al and his wife, Mary, built the New Denver Grill in 1955.

Mary Claybrook ran the diner after Al’s untimely passing in 1956 until Peggy eventually took over the restaurant.

Although the Denver Grill is gone, generations of Tulsans have fond memories of this lost cornerstone of downtown dining. — RHYS MARTIN TulsaPeople.com

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Looking northwest at West Admiral Boulevard at North Maybelle Avenue

FROM OWEN TO IRVING STORY AND COMPOSITE IMAGE BY PATRICK MCNICHOLAS

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n 1909 Owen School opened at 18 N. Maybelle Ave. as one of the fi rst public schools in Tulsa, named for influential Tulsa hotelier and merchant Chauncey Owen. Later that year, the Owen family would sell a portion of its nearby land to the city, eventually creating Tulsa’s fi rst public park, still named Owen Park today.

Like the park, the unique four-story school building was at that time beyond the reach of downtown. Sometime in the next 10 years, it was renamed Washington Irving Elementary for the famous author of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” Irving’s 1830s work “Tour of the Prairies” was written about his experiences visiting what would become Tulsa a half-century later.

The Irving name was etched into subsequent additions to the campus.

But Irving students released for summer break in 1974 never returned to their buildings on Maybelle, and by 1983 the property was sold. Now the 111-year-old* schoolhouse is slightly crumbling, though the campus is utilized by Blue Sky Supply Co. TP

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