Guidelines - City of Oklahoma City
Guidelines - City of Oklahoma City
Guidelines - City of Oklahoma City
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Preservation Standards AND <strong>Guidelines</strong> August 1, 2012<br />
DISTRICTS (in alphabetical order)<br />
Crown Heights Historic District<br />
Listed in the National Register <strong>of</strong> Historic Places: December 28, 1995<br />
Criteria A and C; NRIS #95001467<br />
Zoned Historic Preservation (HP): 1997<br />
Period <strong>of</strong> Significance: 1930-1944<br />
The first houses in Crown Heights were constructed in 1931, on land that had previously served as the<br />
<strong>Oklahoma</strong> <strong>City</strong> Golf & Country Club. Developer G.A. Nichols traded the property for land further to<br />
the north, where the present country club and the surrounding Nichols Hills development are located.<br />
He developed Crown Heights in the same high quality fashion as earlier developments for which he<br />
was responsible. Prominent jurists, corporate executives, downtown merchants and other notable citizens<br />
made their home in Crown Heights. Many distinguished dwellings in various historical revival<br />
styles, such as Tudor, French Eclectic and Mission, grace the tree lined streets <strong>of</strong> this gracious historic<br />
district. The district is bounded by North Western Avenue, NW 42nd Street, North Walker Avenue and<br />
NW 36th Street, and is anchored on the southeast by a city park.<br />
Historical markers show the year that each neighborhood was established for the Crown<br />
Heights Historic District and the and Edgemere Park Historic District.<br />
Edgemere Park Historic District<br />
Listed in the National Register <strong>of</strong> Historic Places: November 12, 1980<br />
Criteria A and C; NRIS #80003283<br />
Zoned Historic Preservation (HP): 1977<br />
Period <strong>of</strong> Significance: 1920s and 1930s, includes a few resources constructed after 1940<br />
In 1926 developer Leon Levy surveyed and platted the Edgemere Park neighborhood. Its unique naturalistic<br />
street plan, which follows the contours <strong>of</strong> the wooded land and the tributary <strong>of</strong> Deep Fork<br />
Creek that meanders through the development, was a departure from the grid plan <strong>of</strong> other developments<br />
<strong>of</strong> the time. Historical revival style houses, among them many finely detailed Tudor revival cottages<br />
as well as larger brick and stone houses <strong>of</strong> the 1920s through the 1940s, grace the curving streets<br />
shaded by many mature trees. Edgemere Park was originally home to mayors, a U.S. Senator, college<br />
educators and business executives. The neighborhood, which is bisected by the creek and its surrounding<br />
park, stretches from North Walker Avenue to North Robinson Avenue , and from NW 36th Street to<br />
NW 30th Street.<br />
<strong>Oklahoma</strong> <strong>City</strong> Historic Districts 25
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