Cool Wallpapers: Wallpaper Store

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Wallpaper Store

The Pierce Block is a historic building in downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma on the northeast corner of Third Street and Detroit Avenue, that was constructed as a hotel in 1909. According to the Tulsa Preservation Commission, it is the oldest remaining post-statehood hotel in Tulsa. Originally it was a few blocks west of the Midland Valley Railroad passenger station, which was at Third and Greenwood Avenue. The building architecture is Plains Commercial style. The ground floor was largely devoted to retail space, and housed the Mammoth Credit Company clothing store until 1929. Later the retail space was occupied successively by a paint and wallpaper store, a vending machine company, a billiard parlor, and a series of printing shops. Most recently, it contained the offices of a local television station. The Midland Valley station was closed and subsequently demolished after all passenger railroad services transferred to the Union Depot in 1931. The Pierce Block is the second oldest structure in Tulsa listed on the National Register of Historic Places (the oldest being the Dawson School). Its NRIS number is 79002033.