[1] It also served as a meeting place for Democrats, who laid the groundwork to control the Constitutional Convention and maintain segregation.

[3] By 1910, Brady had added a high-rise annex, connected to the original hotel by a wooden passageway.

[1] Unfortunately, a fire that broke out in the original building on January 23, 1935, also burned through the passageway and ignited the furnishings of the annex, which were not fireproof.

The center of Tulsa's business district had already moved farther south, away from Union Depot, and businessmen increasingly traveled more by air than by railroad.

According to the Tulsa World, Goodwill Industries bought the Brady building in 1943 and used it for some operations for 30 years.