1000 Special Places of Green Country

[Brookside]

I have enjoyed John Brooks Walton's series on Historic Tulsa Homes, but recently I came across Black Dog & Leventhal publishers' 1000 Buildings of... series on London, Paris, and New York.  I am slowly putting together one for our area - not necessarily for them to publish, but maybe for a standalone Web project - with all of the usual buildings included, of course, but expanding the scope to cover all manner of manmade things that make Green Country more fully special than it otherwise could be.

However, I have mostly only visited the cities here.  Grand Lake?  Tenkiller?  Oologah?  Never been.  Besides Woolaroc I don't know any neat old homeplaces in the country that make it more a home.  I haven't seen Muskogee very well, haven't explored any of the ins and outs of Tahlequah or Claremore.  I would bet that there are a hundred hidden jewels I've missed.

So I'm enlisting your knowledge base.  Buildings, sure, but - more than that - anything we here have cultivated, be it collections, gardens, nonprofit organizations of no specific architectural distinction, events, programs, artistic masterpieces, or just some complete wildcard that makes this part of the world more of itself.

If you want to go explore the back roads for a while before you let 'er rip, so much the better.  I want this to be as wholly representative a thousand as can be, and thanks in advance for your help.

[nathanm]

I suggest watching Green Country People & Places on RSU. They go to all kinds of interesting places, if you can get past all the cheese.

[Conan71]

I think it's a great idea.  I will try to think of some unique places for ideas.  Welcome to Tulsa Now!

[guido911]

I think it's a great idea.  I will try to think of some unique places for ideas.  Welcome to Tulsa Now!

Just think "wherever Guido is, that's what is unique and noteworthy"...

[sauerkraut]

As a running nut I really enjoy Tulsa's trail system, I wish they could be extended and done without street crossings though. The  RiverSide Jogging trails are a city gem.

[davideinstein]

Price Tower

[Conan71]

The Tulsa Garden Center and Woodward Park will be spectacular in a few weeks, as well as Honor Heights Park in Muskogee for the Azalea Festival.

[heironymouspasparagus]

I have enjoyed John Brooks Walton's series on Historic Tulsa Homes, but recently I came across Black Dog & Leventhal publishers' 1000 Buildings of... series on London, Paris, and New York.  I am slowly putting together one for our area - not necessarily for them to publish, but maybe for a standalone Web project - with all of the usual buildings included, of course, but expanding the scope to cover all manner of manmade things that make Green Country more fully special than it otherwise could be.

However, I have mostly only visited the cities here.  Grand Lake?  Tenkiller?  Oologah?  Never been.  Besides Woolaroc I don't know any neat old homeplaces in the country that make it more a home.  I haven't seen Muskogee very well, haven't explored any of the ins and outs of Tahlequah or Claremore.  I would bet that there are a hundred hidden jewels I've missed.

So I'm enlisting your knowledge base.  Buildings, sure, but - more than that - anything we here have cultivated, be it collections, gardens, nonprofit organizations of no specific architectural distinction, events, programs, artistic masterpieces, or just some complete wildcard that makes this part of the world more of itself.

If you want to go explore the back roads for a while before you let 'er rip, so much the better.  I want this to be as wholly representative a thousand as can be, and thanks in advance for your help.

The bunkhouse that was the ranch base for the cowboys who worked on the ranch that is now the Tallgrass Prairie.  Not exotic, but a very interesting building.

[Brookside]

Thanks for these responses, folks.  I plan to launch a web site once I get up in the eight hundreds and then fill in the rest from comments that it draws.  Any suggestions about where else on the Internet I should ask about this?  Keep up the replies to the original post if you like, and I'll be grateful.

[AngieB]

Two Wheel Oklahoma visits a lot of cool places! Rex Brown, one of the creators and stars of the show, is kind of an architecture geek.
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