Tulsa ยท Downtown & the Deco District
The Mayo Hotel
The Mayo brothers' 600-room hotel of 1925 was segregated; today's rooms are in the 1925 tower, shared with residences.
- Built
- 1925Built 1925 as a hotel. The tower now holds 102 hotel rooms and 76 residences.
- Style
- Sullivanesque
- Architect
- George Winkler
- Type
- Grand hotel
- Rooms
- 102
- Area
- Downtown & the Deco District
- Credentials
- Listed on the National Register of Historic Places; Inside a National Register historic district
The story
Brothers John D. and Cass A. Mayo, who had run a furniture store at Fifth and Main, built the 600-room hotel in 1925, patterning it after the Plaza in New York. Guests included John F. Kennedy, Charles Lindbergh, Babe Ruth and Charlie Chaplin, and J. Paul Getty lived there. The hotel was segregated: by one account its first Black guest came in 1951, when Harry Truman phoned to ask that Margaret Truman’s maid be allowed in, and she still had to use the service elevator. It closed in 1981 and stood vacant until John Snyder bought it in 2001 for $250,000; the hotel reopened in 2009.
Good to know
- Address: 115 W 5th Street, Tulsa, OK 74103
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