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29-644: The Oklahoma Judicial Center comprises the 68,156-square-foot (6,331.9 m) former Oklahoma Historical Society Building, also known as the Wiley Post Historical Building , and a newer 77,362-square-foot (7,187.2 m) adjacent annex located on the Capitol Park grounds of the Oklahoma State Capitol complex giving the center a combined floor space of 145,518 square feet (13,519.1 m). The Judicial Center occupies

58-572: A 3.4-acre (1.4 ha) lot bound between N. Lincoln Blvd. to the west and N. Lindsay Ave. to the east from NE 19th St. to NE 21st St. The Judicial Center annex is immediately adjacent facing N. Lindsay Ave. The Oklahoma State Capitol is located across N. Lincoln Blvd. to the northwest. The center is bounded to the south and east by the Capitol-Lincoln Terrace Historic District located across N. Lindsay Ave. and NE 19th St. The original Historical Society Building

87-426: A coffered ceiling can be called a lacunar ceiling: the strength of the structure is in the framework of the coffers. The stone coffers of the ancient Greeks and Romans are the earliest surviving examples, but a seventh-century BC Etruscan chamber tomb in the necropolis of San Giuliano , which is cut in soft tufa-like stone reproduces a ceiling with beams and cross-beams lying on them, with flat panels filling

116-456: A frieze decorated with a scrolling foliage design and dentils. On the first floor between the vestibule and the central stairway is a reception area topped with an arched, vaulted ceiling. The pilastered first floor hallway features a frieze incorporating a wavescroll. On the second floor, the hall has beamed ceilings and pilasters capped with flattened Corinthian capitals. This floor has the most elaborate frieze composed of plaster festoons with

145-527: A marble newel post. Despite the building's Neoclassical style, Art Deco light fixtures are employed at all levels. Seventeen- by seventeen-foot light courts illuminate the halls and service rooms of the upper floors and the former first floor library room. The basement contains beamed, coffered ceilings pronounced with dentils and a repeated vertical anthemion pattern. This level also is accented with intricate friezes, marble floors, and oak doors holding leaded oval glass and leaded clerestories. Located within

174-445: A ribbon-wrapped design of leaves and flowers. This hallway is also adorned with egg and dart molding, dentils, and a secondary Art Deco design. The third floor hallway holds a plain beamed ceiling and pilasters with Corinthian capitals similar to those on the second floor. A special feature of the third floor is the wall paintings of eight Native American figures, the works by Kiowa artists Monroe Tsatoke and Spencer Asah , funded in

203-409: A scrolling foliage design. Windows on the side elevations are not decorated. Around the building is a belt course composed of a single row of dentils. On the front facade, each wing holds secondary entrances designed as simpler versions of the main entrance. These entrances are topped with simple entablatures with dentils and have windows on each side with exterior grilles resembling the clerestory over

232-404: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Coffer A coffer (or coffering ) in architecture is a series of sunken panels in the shape of a square, rectangle, or octagon in a ceiling , soffit or vault . A series of these sunken panels was often used as decoration for a ceiling or a vault, also called caissons ("boxes"), or lacunaria ("spaces, openings"), so that

261-534: Is a historic and diverse neighborhood in the Eastside district of Northeast Oklahoma City , located on either side of Lincoln Blvd just south of the Oklahoma State Capitol , between NE 13th and NE 23rd streets.] Most homes in the area were built during the decade (1920–30) after the erection of the state capitol. The neighborhood has undergone a renaissance in recent years in part as a result of

290-571: Is a three-story structure with a full basement. The exterior features a facade of Indiana limestone with the base and steps composed of Georgia granite designed in Classical Revival style. The building is elevated six feet above Lincoln Blvd. which runs in front of the main entrance. Ten two-story tapered columns with Ionic capitals are aligned along the front facade between two square limestone end columns. The columns uphold an entablature inscribed with Oklahoma Historical Society in

319-419: Is composed of short stone balustrades connecting the columns. Opposite the stairs leading to the porch are two centrally placed bronze entrance doors with a decorative iron grille clerestory . Alongside the entrance are vertical stone relief panels supporting an entablature and antefix resembling those on the front facade. Floral medallions alternate with vertebrate leaf bands to decorate the relief panels. From

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348-769: The lacunae . For centuries, it was thought that wooden coffers were first made by crossing the wooden beams of a ceiling in the Loire Valley châteaux of the early Renaissance . In 2012, however, archaeologists working under the Packard Humanities Institute at the House of the Telephus in Herculaneum discovered that wooden coffered ceilings were constructed in Roman times. Experimentation with

377-603: The 1930s by the Civil Works Administration . The artists, members of the Kiowa Six , contributed their art to several state and federal buildings in Oklahoma. The third floor was originally constructed to be utilized as gallery space with the ceilings, holding skylights, curved to meet the walls. A small metal staircase on the south end of the hall climbs upward toward mechanical space. The front lawn of

406-533: The Capitol building, faced increasing competition for space in the Capitol from its own growth and that of other state agencies. Robert L. Williams , a judge and former state governor, promoted a bill in the Oklahoma Legislature to fund a new building for the society. Gov. William J. Holloway approved the legislation on March 1, 1929 resulting in construction commencing before the year ended. Under

435-598: The architectural works of Layton, Hicks & Forsyth. The Oklahoma Historical Society relocated to the Oklahoma History Center in 2005. In 2011, following a $ 35 million program involving the historic rehabilitation of the original building and the construction of the adjacent annex designed by TAP Architecture, the building reopened as the Oklahoma Judicial Center. Capitol-Lincoln Terrace Historic District Lincoln Terrace

464-435: The basement is a 400-seat auditorium including a stage decorated with swags and a false entablature, walls adorned with classical motifs, and large Art Deco chandeliers. Within the bronze main entrance doors are a second pair of brass-trimmed wooden doors with a stained glass Art Deco clerestory. In between these two door sets is a small entry vestibule laid with Tennessee and Tavernelle marble floors. The vestibule includes

493-761: The building near the main entrance stairway holds a replica of the Liberty Bell , a cannon, and the architectural relic of a previously demolished downtown building. To the north of the original building is the Oklahoma American Legion War Memorial. This memorial features an eternal flame and four separate sculptures honoring veterans of World War I , World War II , the Korean War , and the Vietnam War . The Oklahoma Historical Society, previously located since 1917 within

522-509: The ceiling of the rotunda dome in the Pantheon, Rome . Coffered ceilings were used in cathedrals starting with St Mark's Basilica and Santa Maria Maggiore . They spread following the reforms of the Council of Trent , as the improved acoustics and opportunity to include statues, apostolic heraldry and other religious elements in compositions with versatile shapes was thought to enhance

551-469: The center with three wreathes, symbolic of academic buildings, on each side. Above these along the lower edge of the cornice are dentils combined with egg and dart moulding as part of a frieze that includes lion masks. Atop the entablature lies the antefix featuring floral anthemions , one of the building's common motifs. A shallow porch with a beamed ceiling lies behind the Ionic columns. A porch rail

580-502: The committee's fact-finding national tour, the committee was accompanied by architect Solomon Andrew Layton whose firm, Layton, Hicks & Forsyth, served as the building's architect as well as for several other properties on the National Register including the nearby Capitol building. Holmboe Construction Co. built the structure under the supervision of Edward P. Boyd. Construction was completed in 1930. Decorative lighting

609-698: The expansion of the Oklahoma Health Center district, anchored by the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center , on its south side. Many of the homes in the neighborhood are in the Tudor Revival Style Local businesses and organizations in the neighborhood include: Joy Mennonite Church (on NE 16th Street, west of Lincoln); Papa Dino's Pizza, and George's Happy Hog BBQ, (both on Culbertson Drive), and The OUHSC Faculty House (on NE 14th Street). The western part of

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638-646: The main entrance. Light fixtures on each side of the secondary entrances complement the grilles and anthemions. The building's cornerstone is located on the northwest corner. The rear facade of the original building holds multi-pane windows larger than those along the other elevations. A dominant interior feature of the Historical Society Building is the asymmetric central marble staircase and an intricate iron balustrade. The interior holds plaster walls decorated with elaborate friezes and parquet floors of marble, oak, and walnut. The halls of each of

667-605: The neighborhood is currently recognized by the National Register of Historic Places as Capitol-Lincoln Terrace Historic District ., while the eastern part of the neighborhood is recognized as the Lincoln Terrace East Historic District . Lincoln Terrace | Oklahoma City 35°29′16″N 97°30′12″W  /  35.48778°N 97.50333°W  / 35.48778; -97.50333 This Oklahoma state location article

696-631: The new law, $ 500,000 was allocated for the construction of the building funded from the sale of school lands in the former Cherokee Outlet . Williams became chairman of the Building Committee tasked with selecting architectural and construction firms. After touring several cities around the country, the committee selected the Minnesota Historical Society Building in Saint Paul as a prototype. During

725-485: The porch, the granite steps descend in two wide flights separated by a small brick plaza. Three-dimensional volutes are on each side of the lower flight. Bays extend from the north and south ends of the building. The single, steel casement windows on the first and second floors alternate with plain stone pilasters along all elevations. On the front elevation, an intricate medallion design is located above first floor windows while second floor windows are adorned above with

754-422: The possible shapes in coffering, which solve problems of mathematical tiling, or tessellation , were a feature of Islamic as well as Renaissance architecture . The more complicated problems of diminishing the scale of the individual coffers were presented by the requirements of curved surfaces of vaults and domes. A prominent example of Roman coffering, employed to lighten the weight of the dome, can be found in

783-438: The unique floors are adorned with plaster pilasters with elaborate capitals and decorative friezes. These long corridors are laid with patterned marble with borders. The marble is added to the walls approximately a foot high as floor molding. The marble stairs have marble wainscotting on all levels. The stairway's iron balustrade incorporates a scrolling foliage design and a walnut banister. This foliage design at every level wraps

812-474: Was added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on February 21, 1990. Resources listed within the NRHP registration include the building itself as the sole contributing property while the non-extant exhibit shed and oil well were non-contributing resources. The registration's statement of significance cites the building's long-time role as a repository of the state's history and as an important example of

841-497: Was installed around 1960 at the top of the front entrance steps on each side. Exhibit structures formerly on the property during the historical society's tenure included a capped oil well and other petroleum industry artifacts also installed around 1960 and an exhibit shop put in place in 1982. The war memorial site was dedicated on November 11, 1969 with the memorial constructed in 1986. The building's auditorium underwent restoration in 1982-1983. The Oklahoma Historical Society Building

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