Tulsa station lands on National Register

Cities Service Station No. 8, at 1648 Southwest Blvd. (aka Route 66) in Tulsa, was named to the National Register of Historic Places effective March 14, according to an e-mail today from the National Park Service.

The circa 1940 station was nominated about six weeks ago by the Tulsa Preservation Commission and the state of Oklahoma. So its inclusion to the National Register was all but assured.

The station received a $30,000 cost-share grant from the Route 66 Corridor Preservation Program in 2009 to help restore it. You can see what the station looked like just a few years ago here.

Tulsa attorney James Frasier is a co-owner of the building, and has it available for lease.

The most-impressive portion of the restoration is the building’s porcelain panels. As the Tulsa County News reported in its print edition a few weeks ago:

Each piece had to be carefully taken down and numbered. Then each was sandblasted and a powder coating applied before they went back up. Some pieces had to be repaired in a body shop and a few we had to be built to replace the unsalvageable.

It’s a beauty, and it’s a great new photo op for travelers on the Mother Road.

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