Hillerman Map Project
Photographs of Oklahoma City
21412.M944.2, Z.P. Meyers/Barney Hillerman Photographic Collection, OHS (map #4Z)
Cotton-Exchange Building (Leonhardt Building)
Address: 218 North Harvey Avenue
View: Southeast
Date: August 1946
Architect: Hawk and Parr (Blackburn, Henderson and Thurman 57)
Built: 1923 (National Register of Historic Places in Oklahoma)
"As late as the early 1920s Oklahoma's economy still was predominately agricultural, with the cotton industry being the most important cash crop. By 1923, twenty-three cotton companies maintained purchasing agents in Oklahoma City, operating from dispersed buildings and offices. To centralize this specialized trade, city builder James W. Mann constructed the Cotton Exchange Building. For the design, Mann chose the architectural firm Hawk and Parr, which had gained a reputation with their design of the Masonic Temple in Guthrie and the Magnolia Petroleum Building in Oklahoma City. The building's role as a center for the cotton industry was short lived, however, for by 1930 the price of cotton had dropped more than 50% due to a combination of record harvests, declining markets, and economic depression. In 1945, with a few tenants associated with the cotton industry, the building was sold to H.E. Leonhardt, a local pioneer in the lumber industry. Today, the structure appears much as it did when it served the cotton trade in Oklahoma, a reminder of a past economic boom which equaled the importance of cattle and oil." (Blackburn, Henderson and Thurman 57)
Click points or areas on the map to view historic photographs of downtown Oklahoma City.
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- Ford Assembling Plant
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- Municipal Auditorium
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- Bird’s Eye View of Civic Center and Courthouse
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- Old County Courthouse
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- Montgomery Ward Building
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- Hotel Black
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- Motor Hotel
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- Plaza Court
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- Gene Jones Motor Co.
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- Magnolia Petroleum Company
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- Rockwell Apartments
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- Masonic Temple (Home State Life Building)
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- Kirkpatrick Hotel
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- Elks Lodge (Key Building, ONG Building)
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- Federal Building
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- US Post Office
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- Federal Reserve Bank
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- Cotton-Exchange Building
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- Oklahoma County Courthouse
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- YWCA
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- Hightower Building
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- Mercantile Building (Levy Building)
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- Majestic Building
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- First National Building
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- Wright Building
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- Skirvin Tower
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- Rock Island Railroad Depot
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- Skirvin Hotel
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- Insurance Building
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- Public Warehouse Company
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- Patterson and Hoffman Wholesale Cigars and Pipes
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- Milner Hotel
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- Hotel Kingkade
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- Herskowitz Building
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- Santa Fe Railroad Station
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- Wells Roberts Hotel
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- Sooner Theatre
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- Colcord Building
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- Baltimore Building
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- Midwest Theatre
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- Kress
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- Lerner
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- Katz Drug
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- The American National Building
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- Empire Building
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- Criterion Theatre
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- Biltmore Hotel
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- Oklahoma Club Building
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- Farmer's National Bank Building
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- Commerce Exchange Building
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- Huckins Hotel, Huckins Garage
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- Campbell Building
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- Hales Building
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- Fidelity Bank
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- Britling Cafeteria
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- Manly Office Supply Company
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- Perrine Building, Cravens Building
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- Baum Building
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- Security National Building
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- Ramsey Tower, City National Building
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- Petroleum Building
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- Franklin Building
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- Braniff Building
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- Kerr-McGee Building
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- Capitol Federal Savings and Loan
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- Telephone, Pioneer, Southwestern Bell
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The Z. P. Meyers/Barney Hillerman Photographic Collection
The Z. P. Meyers/Barney Hillerman Photographic Collection includes thousands of images, many of which depict businesses in Oklahoma City. Many photographs in the collection are from the Meyers Photo Shop, which employed Barney Hillerman and other photographers. This map highlights significant buildings in the downtown Oklahoma City area, as well as street and aerial views. The map features images dating from the late 1920s to the 1960s.
This project was made possible by a grant from the Pauline Dwyer Macklanburg and Robert A. Macklanburg Jr. Foundation.
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