Neighborhoods of Tulsa, Oklahoma

The city's historical residential core lies in an area known as Midtown, containing upscale neighborhoods built in the early 20th century with architecture ranging from art deco to Greek Revival.

The University of Tulsa, the Swan Lake neighborhood, Philbrook Museum, and the upscale shopping districts of Utica Square, Cherry Street, and Brookside are located in this region.

One of the supporting properties, the James Alexander Veasey House at 1802 South Cheyenne Avenue West, was added to the NRHP in its own right on July 27, 1989.

Once suffering from significant blight, The Pearl District has seen fervent restoration and new business development thanks to a concerted infill effort on the part of the City of Tulsa,[6] including new bars and restaurants, white collar small offices and new residential buildings, with zoning designed to encourage mixed use and walkability.

In addition to the site being the former home to the minor league baseball Tulsa Drillers, the Art Deco Expo Square Pavilion, the Fair Meadows horse racing track, and the annual Tulsa State Fair, it boasts the Quick Trip Expo Center, the largest clearspan building in the world, providing 354,000 square feet (33,000 m2) of column-free space under a cable-suspended roof.

Recreation in River Parks includes fishing, rowing, kayaking, disc golf, hiking, biking and horseback riding.

During the spring, summer, and early fall, concerts, festivals and the state's largest free fireworks display (on the Fourth of July) are popular draws to the river.

Cherry Street is surrounded by four of Tulsa's designated Historic Districts: the Swan Lake, North Maple Ridge, Gillette and Yorktown neighborhoods.

Other neighborhoods adjacent to Cherry Street are Florence Park and the Renaissance neighborhood.The Maple Ridge Historic District is just south of downtown in Midtown.

Its defining strip is South Peoria between 31st and I-44, which is a popular commercial area with various upscale shops, boutiques, and art galleries, as well as 35 restaurants and nightspots (many with patio seating) spanning a wide variety of cuisines and dining styles.

[12] It was the site of an amusement park in the early twentieth century, but is now notable for the number and architectural variety of houses and apartment buildings constructed in the 1920s and 1930s.

This area has early 1930s homes both grand and small, mature and many newly planted trees, winding streets and is adjacent to the Philbrook Museum of Art and Woodward Park, site of the Tulsa Rose Garden.

Renaissance is also a mix of single family homes and a number of duplexes and the east side of Delaware has housed many TU students over the years.

[14] The north side is home to a large percentage of Tulsa's African-American community in addition to working-class Tulsans of other races and ethnicities.

In 1921, thirty-five blocks of businesses and residences were burned in this district during the infamous Tulsa Race Massacre, the bloodiest incident of racial violence in the history of the United States.

The Oklahoma Legislature passed laws in 2001 aimed at revitalizing Greenwood, setting up a scholarship fund for college-bound descendants of the victims and appropriating $2 million for a memorial.

Supplanted as the city auditorium in 1979 by construction of the Performing Arts Center in downtown, "the Old Lady on Brady" continues to be used today for a wide variety of concerts and theatrical productions.

North of The Tulsa Theater on Main Street is the Cain's Ballroom, formerly the garage of the Brady family[15] and the home of Bob Wills and his band, the Texas Playboys.

The neighborhood's renaissance got a significant boost in late 2012 with the opening of Guthrie Green, a public garden and outdoor stage, on a central plot of land formerly inhabited by commercial buildings.

Guthrie Green has quickly emerged as a neighborhood focal point, hosting community events, live music and a farmers market.

[16] The district and the street were originally named for W. Tate Brady, an early Tulsa business owner and active civic promoter.

According to the Tulsa Preservation Commission, the district "...was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 13, 2010 under Criterion A for significance in commerce.

Land in the area is becoming scarce, however, and development now has begun to spread to neighboring Jenks and Bixby to the south and west, as well as Broken Arrow to the east.

Southeast Tulsa is generally considered as south of 41st St S and east of S Sheridan Rd, all the way to the Bixby and Broken Arrow city limits.

The area provides easy access to I 244, I 44, Hwy 169 (Mingo Valley Exp), The Creek Turnpike, and the Broken Arrow expressway.

Constructed largely in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, attractions in this part of the city include McClure Park, which is notable for its disc golf course, the Carl Smith Athletic Complex, and the popular Admiral Twin Drive-In movie theatre.

Areas that fall in Union and Broken Arrow School districts are increasingly attracting high-income professionals looking for suburban life within the city limits.

The classic art deco Webster High School is here, as is the popular train-themed Ollie's Station Restaurant, sitting next to the Tulsa rail yard.

The Riverparks system, also here on the bank of the river, includes the Riverwest Festival Park, with its floating stage amphitheater overlooking downtown.

Riverwest is home to such popular events as Tulsa's Oktoberfest, one of the largest of its kind in North America, and the Gatesway Balloon Festival.