The Tulsa Foundation for Architecture is a resource that recognizes, records, and encourages preservation of the built environment. We've already saved the sole remnants of many great Tulsa buildings, the drawings. Such records all too often do not survive their creators, much less the buildings they depict. They frequently are of intrinsic artistic merit and always are historically significant.
Preservation makes all kinds of sense, including dollars and cents.
Compared to new construction, rehabilitation tends to cost less, takes less time, saves energy, reuses scarce materials, and provides jobs. Visiting historic sites is America's fourth most popular recreational activity, and the time to act is now. Tulsa is less than 100 years old, yet very few early buildings survive. Our sense of past is developed by contact with the older generations, by our knowledge of history, by the accumulated heritage of art, music, literature, and science passed down to us through the years. This connection with society is a primary symbol of our 'humanness'.