- When it was completed in 1910, the Colcord Building (now the Colcord Hotel) was OKC’s first skyscraper at a whopping 12 floors.
- Penn Square Mall, located on the northeast corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and Northwest Expressway, was originally built as an outdoor shopping center. It wasn’t enclosed until the 1980s.
- The Devon Energy Center has 50 elevators. If you went roundtrip on all 50, you would have traveled approximately 3.5 miles.
- Stockyards City started acting as a public livestock market in October 1910. Today, it remains the world’s largest stocker and feeder cattle market.
- The Oklahoma City Museum of Art opened in its current location in downtown OKC in March of 2002.
- According to Wikipedia (trust at your own risk), the highest recorded temperature in Oklahoma City was 113ºF which has happened twice – once during the Dust Bowl in 1936 and not again until August 2012. The lowest recorded temperature was -17ºF in 1899 (brrrrrr).
- Built in 1903, the Overholser Mansion was considered on the “outskirts” of Oklahoma City. If you’ve visited it (and you should!), you know that it’s actually right in the center of the action – located at the corner of Northwest 15 and Hudson in Heritage Hills just northwest of downtown.
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