Archive Record
Images
Metadata
Catalog Number |
2008.137.001A |
Collection |
Oral History |
Narrator's Name |
Ball, Rex Martin |
Object Name |
Disk, Optical |
Date |
09/29/2008 |
Digital Link |
Click here to view the video. |
Scope & Content |
DVD optical disk containing part one of a video of an oral history interview with Rex Martin Ball, conducted at the Tulsa Historical Society and Museum on September 29, 2008 by Archivist and Curator of Collections Joshua Peck. The interview is 59:34 in length. Ball, noted architect, discusses his life's work and Tulsa's built environment. Ball came to Tulsa in 1962 to open an office of the law firm his father, and was a founding member of the architectural firm Hudgins, Thompson, and Ball "HTB." Ball discusses the many projects HTB worked on in Tulsa, such as the renovation of the Mid-Continent Building and the Philcade, as well as many new projects including the following: Mayo School, B.C. Franklin Park, and St. Francis Hospital. As head of Downtown Unlimited in the 1960s and early 70s, Ball shares his particular vantage point on urban renewal and how it changed Tulsa. 00:01 Born during the Great Depression, his father's architecture firm HTB, and World War II 11:00 College years, the service, working in architecture firms in OKC 21:45 Move to Tulsa in 1962 to open an HTB office, buildings constructed, and work with the Warren Foundation on St. Francis 30:00 HTB's renovation of Mid-Continent Building, Philcade 38:00 Ball's experience in downtown Tulsa in the 1960s, work with Vision 2000, and work with Tribal Housing Authorities 45:00 Ball's experience of Urban Renewal, role of HTB, and historic preservation 52:00 Ball's mentors in architecture, relationships with other firms and colleagues, Bruce Goff's influence, Ball's feelings on the authorship of Boston Avenue Methodist Church |
Search Terms |
architecture & architects B. C. Franklin Park Boston Avenue United Methodist Church Downtown Tulsa Unlimited Dust Bowl Great Depression HTB, Inc. Mayo Building Mayo School Mid-Continent Building oral history interviews Philcade Building Reading and Bates, Inc. Saint Francis Hospital & Saint Francis Health System Tulsa Community College urban renewal Vision 2000 William K. Warren Foundation Works Progress Administration (WPA) World War II |
People |
Ball, Rex Martin Goff, Bruce Alonzo Kerr, Robert Samuel Orbison, Scott Robinson, Adah Matilda Thornton, Charles E. |