[CPEO-BIF] Moton Hospital site, Tulsa, Oklahoma

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Historic hospital poised for brownfields face-lift

BY KEVIN CANFIELD

Tulsa World (OK)
October 1, 2013

The historic Moton Hospital at 605 E. Pine St. has been empty for  
years. But city officials said Monday they hope to see the building  
preserved and repurposed now that it has been prepared for  
development under the city's brownfields remediation program.

"Without it being cleaned up to EPA standards it would have continued  
to be an eyesore," Mayor Dewey Bartlett said during a tour of the  
building. "(We would) not be able to take advantage of its history,  
the beauty of the original building and repurpose it for a good use."

...

According to Tulsa Preservation Commission documents, the hospital  
opened in December 1921, in the wake of the Tulsa Race Riot. It was  
named Maurice Willows Hospital, after Maurice Willows, then the  
director of the Tulsa Chapter of the American Red Cross, and  
consisted of 15 beds.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article_21c60446-e2e3-59eb- 
b7d4-000e9d11263a.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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