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Here's our required reading list, must-have gadgets, helpful travel tools and some cool maps showing shops and some of the modern places in and around Oklahoma we have visited!

Travel Tools

Looking to stay someplace unique? Oklahoma offers a number of boutique hotels. And if a B&B strikes your fancy there some unique offerings there also. 

The Inn at Price Tower in Bartlesville should definitely be at the top of your list. Where else can you enjoy an Oklahoma sunset, then fall asleep in a Frank Lloyd Wright skyscraper? In Tulsa the contemporary styling of Aloft Downtown will satisfy modern tastes. It's one of a few from this brand located in a re-purposed MCM building, Tulsa's old city hall. The Brut is a more recent offering with stunning views and a Brutalist flair, as the name suggests.

Less modern but no less unique, consider the classic accommodations at Oklahoma City's Skirvin Hilton and Colcord Hotel, or the Ambassador Hotel in Tulsa.

Modern Map

Some of the places you'll read about on our blog.


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Shopping


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Most Popular Posts

Visit to the Prairie Chicken House

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This unique house on the edge of Norman, Oklahoma is known to most as the prairie chicken house. Designed by Herb Greene in 1960, he preferred to call it simply the Prairie House .  Thanks to the  Prairie House Preservation Society  (PHPS) it is now possible for the public to experience one of Oklahoma's most unusual architectural treasures. 
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Home of ORU Architect on the Auction Block

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Frank Wallace is best known as the man behind the futuristic look of the Oral Roberts University campus. On October 14, 2010 his unique home overlooking ORU will be sold in a public auction conducted by Mister Ed's Auctions . Jackie and I recently had a chance to visit with Mr. Wallace and learn more about the house, his career and his thoughts on architecture. When we visited we expected to snap a few photos of an empty house and speak with a representative from the auction company. To our surprise the door opened, and we were greeted by Mr. Wallace himself! After assuring him we were not architects, he let us look around. Unfortunately we were not prepared to interview the man whose buildings incite such extremely diverse reactions- but that didn't stop me from asking him several questions anyway.  The home, completed in 1980, was designed and built by Wallace who is now 87. The expansive home is so large that Wallace spends most of his time in a room that was his la...
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McDonalds Moderne

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Some people know this as the Glass House, others know it as the world's largest McDonald's. I remember it from childhood as a symbol of transcontinental travel. It was built spanning I-44, aka the Will Roger's Turnpike, in 1958 as a Conoco gas station and the Glass House restaurant. Located near Vinita, Oklahoma, it marked the halfway point between Tulsa and Joplin, Missouri. It was the first restaurant in the U.S. built over a public highway. In addition to the distinctive steel arches, the windows were covered by large aluminum shutters that slowly turned throughout the day to shade the interior. The mechanism can still be seen today, but the shutters have long since been static. The Glass House was an instant hit with tourists and well-to-do locals. Area high schools even had their proms inside the futuristic hall. It was not uncommon for confused visitors to exit on the opposite end and think their car had been stolen. Today exits are designated as "westbound...
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