Mayo Hotel
The Mayo Hotel shares a place with the Adams Hotel on the National Register of Historic Places, but bests the smaller Adams on several particulars. When built in 1925, it was the tallest building in Oklahoma. Originally each of its 600 rooms contained a ceiling fan and boasted Tulsa's first running ice water, good enough to acquire J. Paul Getty as a resident for many years. Today only the lobby is used (such as for auctions or conventions, etc), and while city directors work hard to preserve and revitalize the hotel, only the birds presently roost in its highest stone floors.



the once-glorious Mayo Hotel