Utica Square, 21st and Utica Avenue, Tulsa

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Utica Square was first shopping center in Tulsa to be planned as an off street shopping center and designed to integrate low scale retail stores into a full landscape setting with off street parking and a green plaza as a focal point. Description: Utica Square is bounded on the north by Street, on the south by Place, on the west by Utica Avenue and on the east by Yorktown Avenue. It is located 1.5 miles southeast of downtown Tulsa. The site is approximately 26 acres in size. The shopping center is made up of small blocks of low scale buildings in a modern architectural style. A central plaza with a fountain and annual planting beds is the focal point of the shopping center.

Covered sidewalks, landscaped niches with fountains and statues and large trees encourage visitors to stroll through the area to shop and to dine at outdoor sidewalk cafes. Scattered green space and planting beds help to soften the highly developed area. Statues and seasonal planting beds add to the ambience of the site which draws thousands of visitors each year for its many events in addition to the dining and retail experience. Large, mature trees shade the sidewalks and parking making Utica Square an oasis in the heart of Tulsa. History: When Utica Square originally opened in it was considered Tulsa's first "suburban" shopping center. The site was designed by Malcolm McCune. Helmerich and Payne purchased the site in and intensely landscaped the site by planting of 300 trees.

Since then Utica Square has developed from a middle class suburban shopping center to an upscale shopping center in the heart of Tulsa.

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Audrey Clark, May 5, Dr. Charles L. Leider, Professor and Faculty Sponsor UTICA SQUARE HALS NO. OK-53 PAGE 2 Landscape Architecture Program Oklahoma State University and ASLA HALS Liaison for Oklahoma charles.leider@okstate.edu Panoramic view of the central green (Audrey Clark, April 14, Site map with locator (Audrey Clark, April 22, ADDENDUM TO: HALS OK-53 UTICA SQUARE HALS OK-53 and Utica Avenue Tulsa Tulsa County Oklahoma REDUCED COPIES OF MEASURED DRAWINGS HISTORIC AMERICAN LANDSCAPES SURVEY National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior C Street NW Washington, DC