The Casa Loma Hotel in Tulsa, which is being renovated, was listed to the National Register of Historic Places effective Sept. 3, according to an e-mail Friday from the National Park Service.
The building at 2600 block of East 11th Street (aka Route 66) was built in 1927 as the Max Campbell Building. It was the Casa Loma Hotel during the 1940s, when the building also houses a barbershop, drugstore and a Safeway. It has not operated as a hotel for many years.
Group M Investment purchased it in 2008 and is renovating it into the Campbell Hotel. Group M foresees a hotel on the second floor with 26 rooms, plus a restaurant on the first floor.
A spokeswoman said in March it would be “at least a year” before the hotel opens.
UPDATE: Jason Ashley Wright’s column in the Tulsa World, who’s touting a Designer Showcase event coming up there, has a few more details about the hotel:
At present, Group M is “getting the bones done,” Casey said — electricity, plumbing, heat and air, windows. […]
By February, the renovation should be complete — the downstairs grand lobby and 6,000-square-foot event center, as well as 26 hotel rooms. Then, the designers have about six weeks to transform their allotted spaces into showcase-worthy masterpieces. […]
The Campbell Hotel is scheduled to open in June 2011, said Casey, who hopes a nice restaurant will take notice of the space at the end of the building.