Service Building

Service Building

Buildings

In good condition, the Service Building's grand design and central location make it a multi-purpose gathering place today as it was in the past. Archival photographs are evidence that the dormers and original doors have been removed. A landscape mural (artist and date unknown) on the auditorium stage is now concealed, but invites further investigation.

The two-story red brick structure is imposing and welcoming with a large portico, full-height columns, and arch windows rising two stories framed with limestone sills and keystones. The rectangular porch features full-width limestone steps spanning half of the building's facade with eight columns with Ionic capitals and entablature supporting a flat roof with eight decorative urn finials above the columns. Four brick pilasters with limestone capitals frame the portico's first floor original entryway (two of the three doorways are now closed and replaced with large, darkened slab glass) and windows. Above each doorway is a running bond with diamond-shaped limestone inserts. Brick pattern work adorns the facade at the architrave level and frames windows and doors at the window sill level.

Cleverly, the mullion and transom pattern in the arch windows (two stories in height) is the modifed Cross of Lorraine, the symbol of the fight against tuberculosis since 1902.

Helen Carlton of Tulsa, Oklahoma

2009

Helen Carlton of Tulsa, Oklahoma

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