74103 - Downtown & the BOK Center District, Tulsa OK

- About 74103

74103 is Tulsa's downtown core, home to the Tulsa Arts District, centered where Main Street meets Reconciliation Way, just north of the old Santa Fe Railroad line. Two pieces of this footprint, the Tulsa Arts District and the North Cheyenne Historic District, were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. The zip also holds the central business district proper, running south toward the office towers and civic buildings that anchor the city's skyline.

The neighborhood's built form traces directly back to Tulsa's oil boom: the population grew from roughly 1,300 to more than 140,000 in about three decades after oil struck nearby in the early 1900s, and the money financed a wave of downtown office construction. After 1925 that construction turned to the Zig-Zag Moderne style now called Art Deco, and Tulsa's Oil Capital Historic District still counts about 40 registered buildings from that era - part of what's regularly cited as the third-largest collection of Art Deco architecture in the United States.

Today the district's civic and entertainment landmarks sit within easy walking distance of each other: the BOK Center, a 19,199-seat arena designed by César Pelli that opened in 2008 and blends Native American, Art Deco, and contemporary design themes; ONEOK Field, home of the Tulsa Drillers; the Tulsa Performing Arts Center; Guthrie Green; and the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame. Housing in 74103 is almost entirely mid- and high-rise apartments and condominiums, including a number of units inside converted historic office buildings from the Deco era - there is very little traditional single-family stock inside this zip code. The area is walkable by Tulsa standards, with roughly ten bus lines crossing the district and a developing bicycle network. Schools serving 74103 addresses are zoned to Tulsa Public Schools.

74103 sits alongside two other pieces of Tulsa's Downtown & Urban Core: 74119 (SoBo & the Cathedral District) and 74120 (Cherry Street, Blue Dome & Greenwood). Browse the full Tulsa neighborhoods guide, or find out what a downtown Tulsa property is worth.