Admiral Place

From its initial designation in 1926 until 1932, the original alignment of Route 66 entered Tulsa from the east along 11th Street, turned north at Mingo Road for about one mile to Federal Drive, and then ran west along Federal Drive, now Admiral Place, toward downtown Tulsa along the dividing line between the Cherokee and Muscogee Creek Nations. Although Route 66 followed Admiral Place for only six years, that period established the street's commercial character as a corridor serving motorists with filling stations, restaurants, and auto sales and repair facilities. At East Admiral Place and Yale Avenue, filling stations stood on three of the four corners, while the northwest corner at the edge of Rose Hill Cemetery, where Cyrus Avery is buried, did not. The Daugherty Ice Company at 4915 Admiral Place occupied the low brick building east of one filling station, and the adjacent building, constructed c.1934, housed furniture stores and other commercial ventures. Buildings on the north side of Admiral Place from Indianapolis Avenue to Jamestown Avenue were constructed after the re-alignment of Route 66, but they reflect the popularity of architectural styles associated with movement and the automobile age, including the streamlined moderne curved corner of 3401 Admiral Place and the later Modern Movement features of the former restaurant at 3411 Admiral Place and the store at 3419 Admiral Place.

Tulsa, Oklahoma · United States