Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-03-15
CONVENTION HAUL
SITE IS Chosen
AUDITORIUM WILL BE LOCATED
Al CORNER OF ARCHER AND
BOULDER.
THE CITY owns PROPERTY
Nearly S1OO,OOO VIII BE Available for
Building--To Seat About 5000
People.

The convention hall has been To-
Gated, the site Is chosen, and 1t VIII
be but a short time until actual worb
begins.
That much was determined yester'
day afternoon when the city commits
sion met at 2 o'clock and took up the
matter of selecting location from
among the Is or 20 proposed sites
The commission chose the city's
own property at Boulder and Archer
streets as the place on which to build
the big convention hall. This decision
came only after a hearty considera'
ton had been given to all sites OF
fered several days ago, coupled to
the consideration that the city has but
500. 900 to spend on both building
and site.
Bought Fifty Feet.
For several years the city Of Tulsa
has owned "A plot ot ground at the
southeast intersection of Archer and
Boulder streets, with a $50 foot FAC.
ing on Boulder, running back l4O feet
This was not large enough however, to
accommodate such a structure as the
city proposes building, but the so feet
adjoining the city's property immed'
lately on the south may be purchas'
ed by the city at the nominal price
of $50 a foot. That will take $500
of the 100000 voted for both site
and building, and will leave the sum
Of $97,500 for the convention hall
building.
Purchased Cheap.
While the city has owned the corner
at Archer and Boulder for some years,
il has never made great deal OF use
of IT, 1t was procured at price OF
about $4,000 and was the original site
of the first power house ever erected
in Tulsa. 1t is now occupied by q
small brick building in which the
waterworks department has stored
material belonging to it. Except the
increase in value which the property
has made since its purchase by the
city. 1t may be said that little actual
benefit has accrued to the city through
its ownership.
The purchase Of so feet immediate
~ south of the clty's property there
has not actually been made, but the
owner of the property yesterday as
sured the commission that he would
be willing to sell 1t to the city for
$500, which is considered to be o
price well within the bounds OF rea'
son in relation TO the value OF Other
properties in that Vic 'nty.
Fig Seating Capacity.
1t Is believed by the commission
that with $97,50O 1t will be able tc
erect a convention hall that will ac'
commodate in actual seating capacity
something like $500 persons. 1t Is
planned to make the building Just a,
large as possible that the popular de
mand may be met, and that with an
actual seating capacity of 5000 OF
,rore. the total capacity of the build
iMk will not be far from $500.
"A big convention hail." has beer
the cry of Tulsans sinve the su0)ec'
was first started several months a6o
and with hte one hundred thousand
dollars as the limited price for botf
site and the building. it is hardly
probable that a more judicous actor
could have been taken.
The site is one block from the lines
of the Tulsa Street Railway company
and is alongside the Sand Springs
railway, and is within less than fJul
blocks of both the Katy and Frisco
and Santa Fe depots. From Thirl
and Main streets, what is now con
sidered about the center of acti'HI
i'm Tulsa. il is but five blocks, cn'
block further than it is to the court
house from Third and Main.
Two Voted Against
1t was an adjourned meeting of th'
commission yesterday afternoon "hei
the site selection was made, with al
voting. The choice was made ~
vote of three to two. Mayor Woo'tl
and Commissioners Downing and Col
ley voting for the site, and Comm's
sioners Forsythe and Wilson votihs
against It. There were but thre'
sites that received the hearty consid
Grafton yesterday afternoon, the "n'
chosen. the southwest corner OF Thlr'
and Denver, valued at $4,000 an'
the location at the northwest corhe
of Brady and Boulder, valued 6
$1,000.
Plans for the building will be IN M
hands of the commission as soon &
possible and bids will be advertised
for just as soon as the prelimlnar.
arrangements for this work can D.
completed.