Tag: Oklahoma City Historic Buildings

The Colcord Building

The Colcord Building

While the Anderson-Prichard Oil Corporation was founded as a Delaware corporation, Lev H. Prichard and J. Steve Anderson set up the company headquarters in the grand Colcord Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma back in 1919.

Architect's Drawing of Colcord Building - Early Anderson-Prichard Oil Company Headquarters Offices, Oklahoma City, Circa 1919
Architect’s Drawing of Colcord Building – Early Anderson-Prichard Oil Company Headquarters Offices, Oklahoma City, Circa 1919

The building was finished in 1909 and is considered to be Oklahoma City’s very first skyscraper. It is 145 feet (44 m) tall and currently has 14 floors (when it was completed in 1910, it only had 12 foors).

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