Oklahoma City Audio Walking Tour

Highlights

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  Devon Energy Center

  Devon Energy Center climbs 50 stories out of downtown Oklahoma City, the tallest building in the state. You can feel how deliberate its presence is: it has fewer floors than Tulsa's 52-story BOK Tower, yet it stands tied with Park Tower in Chicago as the 75th tallest in the United States — and at its completion it was ranked tied as the 39th tallest.

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  Bricktown

  Picture the old warehouses now filled with restaurants, bars, and nightlife just east of downtown. Once a major warehouse district, this neighborhood now occupies some 50 square city blocks between the Oklahoma River to the south and I-235 to the east, with the Deep Deuce District to the north and the Oklahoma City Central Business District to the west.

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  Skirvin Hilton Hotel

  September 26, 1911 was opening day for the Skirvin Hilton, and today 13 stories and 225 rooms rise in front of you. Feel the weight of its history: it first opened on September 26, 1911 with 224 rooms in a ten-story, two-winged tower.

• Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark

  Picture Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark packed with fans cheering on the Triple-A Oklahoma City Comets. This park replaced All Sports Stadium and now is home to the Oklahoma City Comets, the Triple-A affiliate of the Los Angeles Dodgers Major League Baseball team.

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  Skydance Pedestrian Bridge

  Wings of a scissor-tailed flycatcher, Oklahoma's state bird, inspired the Skydance Pedestrian Bridge, the crossing over Interstate 40 that joins the two halves of Scissortail Park. Its story begins with a decision on May 15, 2002, when the United States Department of Transportation approved the Oklahoma City Crosstown realignment and required a pedestrian bridge to cross Interstate 40.

All 41 stops

• Bricktown (Bricktown)

  Picture the old warehouses now filled with restaurants, bars, and nightlife just east of downtown.

• Bricktown Canal (Bricktown)

  This mile-long waterway you see today replaced a canal that failed within two days.

• Centennial Land Run Monument (Bricktown District)

  Picture forty-five bronze horsemen and wagons frozen mid-gallop across this stretch of Bricktown.

• Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark (Bricktown Entertainment District)

  Picture Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark packed with fans cheering on the Triple-A Oklahoma City Comets.

• Brickopolis (Bricktown)

  Picture three floors packed with arcade games, laser tag, and mini golf in this U.S. corner of Bricktown.

• Chickasaw Plaza (Bricktown)

  Notice the Chickasaw warrior statue keeping quiet watch over this canalside plaza here in the U.S. state of Oklahoma.

• The Devon Mosaic: As Long as the Waters Flow (Bricktown)

  Underfoot at the northwest corner of the Bricktown Canal lies The Devon Mosaic: As Long as the Waters Flow, Mary Ann Moore's 2007 work.

• Automobile Alley (Automobile Alley)

  Broadway Avenue runs through Automobile Alley, where the heritage buildings that once housed the city's automobile dealerships now shelter bars, restaurants, shops, and homes.

• Cain's Coffee Building (Oklahoma City)

  Cain's Coffee Building rises five stories in white glazed brick at 1 NW Twelfth Street, just off Broadway.

• Oklahoma Film Exchange (Film Row)

  On the corner of W Sheridan Avenue and N Lee Avenue in Film Row, you have reached the Oklahoma Film Exchange, a worker-owned microcinema inside…

• American Banjo Museum (Oklahoma City)

  Your next stop is the American Banjo Museum.

• Oklahoma City Museum of Art (Oklahoma City)

  The Donald W. Reynolds Visual Arts Center houses the Oklahoma City Museum of Art and its Chihuly glass.

• Gaylord-Pickens Oklahoma Heritage Museum (Oklahoma City)

  Inside the Gaylord-Pickens Museum you'll find the Oklahoma Hall of Fame and its interactive exhibits.

• Myriad Botanical Gardens (Downtown Oklahoma City)

  Myriad Botanical Gardens spreads 15 acres of greenery across downtown Oklahoma City, with sculpture tucked into the landscape.

• Gateway (Myriad Botanical Gardens)

  Hans Van de Bovenkamp's Gateway, a 1993 metal sculpture, rises in Oklahoma City's Myriad Botanical Gardens.

• Civic Center Music Hall (Oklahoma City)

  Since 1937 the Civic Center Music Hall has held Oklahoma City's stages and halls.

• Bicentennial Park (Civic Center)

  Just east of Civic Center Music Hall, Bicentennial Park gives Oklahoma City a compact green space framed by Couch Drive, Colcord Drive and Walker Avenue.

• Bicentennial Monument (Bicentennial Park)

  Granite tablets created around 1930 make up the Bicentennial Monument, telling the history of Oklahoma City in engraved lines.

• Pioneers of 1889 (Oklahoma City)

  Two settlers, a man and a young boy on a horse, ride in bronze as Pioneers of 1889, created by Leonard McMurry with landscape architect…

• The Conductor (Bicentennial Park)

  Mike Larsen's bronze The Conductor, also known as Maestro, rises nine feet tall in Bicentennial Park just outside the Civic Center Music Hall.

• The Runners (Oklahoma City)

  Torches in hand, two life-sized bronze figures freeze mid-stride as The Runners, the work of artist Rich Muno and architect Bruce L. Bockus here in…

• Skirvin Hilton Hotel (Downtown Oklahoma City)

  September 26, 1911 was opening day for the Skirvin Hilton, and today 13 stories and 225 rooms rise in front of you.

• Colcord Hotel (Downtown Oklahoma City)

  Oklahoma City's first skyscraper, finished in 1909, is now the Colcord Hotel, a luxury boutique hotel downtown.

• Ronald J. Norick Downtown Library (Downtown Oklahoma City)

  Four stories and 114,130 square feet of public space make up the Ronald J. Norick Downtown Library, the Metropolitan Library System's flagship.

• First National Center (Downtown Oklahoma City)

  First National Center rose in 1931 as an art deco tower of 33 floors, its spire reaching 446 feet over downtown Oklahoma City.

• Devon Energy Center (downtown Oklahoma City)

  Devon Energy Center climbs 50 stories out of downtown Oklahoma City, the tallest building in the state.

• BancFirst Tower (downtown Oklahoma City)

  At 100 North Broadway Avenue, BancFirst Tower lifts 36 floors and 500 feet over downtown Oklahoma City.

• City Place Tower (Downtown Oklahoma City)

  Nine months in 1931 raised City Place, then the Ramsey Tower, 33 floors above you.

• 100 Park Avenue Building (downtown Oklahoma City)

  Twelve stories of Art Deco geometry rise 160 feet at the 100 Park Avenue Building, once the Medical Arts Building and, in 1923, the tallest…

• Galaxy (Leadership Square)

  Red welded steel, 45 feet tall and 14 tons, Galaxy by Alexander Liberman fills the plaza outside Leadership Square.

• Skydance Pedestrian Bridge (Scissortail Park)

  Wings of a scissor-tailed flycatcher, Oklahoma's state bird, inspired the Skydance Pedestrian Bridge, the crossing over Interstate 40 that joins the two halves of Scissortail…

• Boathouse District (Boathouse District)

  Along the Oklahoma River, a row of boathouses forms the Boathouse District, a U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Training Site.

• Beacon of Hope (Oklahoma City Innovation District)

  Steel and light make the Beacon of Hope, a columnar monument in Stiles Circle Park that can throw a green or white beam straight into…

• University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (Oklahoma Health Center)

  Nineteen buildings spread across fifteen blocks in front of you, the University of Oklahoma Health Campus, near the Oklahoma State Capitol.

• Overholser Mansion (Heritage Hills)

  Henry Overholser built the Overholser Mansion in 1903 on farmland well away from the city center, Oklahoma City's first mansion.

• Heritage Hills, Oklahoma City (Heritage Hills)

  Heritage Hills holds some of Oklahoma City's largest and grandest historic homes, a district that took shape just after 1900 and was largely complete by…

• Hales Mansion (Heritage Hills)

  William Taylor Hales spent $125,000 in 1916 on the largest residence in Oklahoma City, the Hales Mansion.

• Mid-Continent Life Building (Heritage Hills)

  Mid-Continent Life Building meets you at 1400 Classen Drive in Heritage Hills.

• Braniff Building (Oklahoma City)

  Braniff Airlines kept its first office in the Braniff Building, a ten-story landmark at 324 North Robinson Street built in 1923.

• Gold Dome (NW 23rd Street)

  Route 66 runs past the Gold Dome, the geodesic bank built in 1958 at NW 23rd Street and North Classen Boulevard.

• Milk Bottle Grocery (Oklahoma City)

  A Braum's milk bottle still crowns the Milk Bottle Grocery, the triangular 1930 store at 2426 N. Classen Boulevard.

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