A direct descendant of Tulsa’s first general store from the 1880s, Halliburton-Abbott opened a giant new location in December 1929, building an eight-story art deco masterpiece at Fifth Street and Boulder Avenue.
Skaggs drugstore moved into the lower floors in 1961, giving the building the name that most Tulsans remember it by today. By 1980, preservationists were calling the Skaggs Building “America’s finest remaining example of zigzag Art Deco,” but they couldn’t persuade the Cities Service Co. not to tear it down.
Cities Services planned to build a 52-story headquarters on the site, which would have become Oklahoma’s tallest office tower. But falling oil prices triggered another economic crisis for Tulsa and the company collapsed, ending construction after only 17 floors. ONEOK took over the unfinished building and remains there to this day.
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