Tulsa Foundation for Architecture

“Expenses office 2,077 travel 4,256 conferences/meetings 940 insurance 4,359 archives expenses 325 contract labor 1,555 contributions 1,300 dues & subscriptions 740 merchant & bank fees 1,818 meals 603 mileage 127 parking expense 732 telephone 1,899 tour & event expenses 7,948 website 395 non-investment depreciation 4,823 total 33,897”

“Inventories for sale or use 41,564 43,430 equipment 44,862 46,739 less accumulated depreciation 43,380 44,325 total 43,046 45,844”

“Accounts payable and accrued expenses 37 7,274”

“The tulsa foundation for architecture's mission is to be a resource that recognizes, records and encourages preservation of the built environment and advocates quality future developments that further enhances tulsa's livability. The foundation's objectives are to be a credible voice that identifies valuable architectural structures, spaces, sites and works of merit; educates the public about architecture and the built environment; promotes and encourages preservation and/or rehabilitation of significant structures; be a repository for historical architectural drawings and materials.”

“Archives: the tfa architectural archives continue to be our greatest asset with major collections of renowned architects, including the original hand-drawn designs of koberling, forsyth and senter. The collection contains nearly 1000 sets of drawings and artifacts from a variety of building sites in the tulsa area.”

“Tour planning: our annual membership appreciation event was hosted at the international style home of robert lawton jones faia. The event raised over 10,000, with 250 members attending, including 114 new members and renewals. Modern tulsa and philbrook museum co-hosted speaker christine madrid french to present "saving the modern century", a lecture about the challenges of preserving buildings from the recent past. Tfa participated in "explore downtown" program for school children sponsored by the george kaiser family foundation. This year we provided walking tours of downtown to several different school groups, for grades ranging from 3rd to 7th grade. Tfa partnered with the local aia to host "architread", a bicycle tour through the cbd and brady districts. The annual neighborhood tour "cliff dwellers" featured reservoir hill, a unique neighborhood of architecturally diverse residences built on the hillside of one of tulsa's oldest water reservoirs. The tour brought in more than 9000 in profits from tickets sales & sponsorships. The "dwell in the idl" tour featured 10 residential properties downtown within the inner dispersal loop. This annual event was a great success; it was attended by nearly 450 people and netted over 8,000 from ticket sales and sponsorships. The tour was well publicized due to pre-event interviews and tours by the events committee. 2nd saturday, a monthly walking tour of downtown initiated in 2013, continues to draw people downtown. With the introduction of the "underground tulsa" tunnel tour, attendance has doubled from last year to an average of 100 persons per tour. We have trained more docents and increased the number of tours we provide each month.”

“Newsletter & publications: we continue to market and distribute our publication, tulsa art deco, as well as the laminated companion, decoguide, through local bookstores and museum shops, advantage amazon books, and our enhanced website tfa store: www.tulsaarchitecture.com. Tfa distributes and promotes the books of john brooks walton: one hundred historic tulsa homes, one hundred more historic tulsa homes, many more historic tulsa homes, historic homes of ponca city and kay county, the artwork of tulsa, the architecture of charles stevens dilbeck, the architecture of john duncan forsyth, the architecture of john brooks walton, tulsa's future historic homes, and historic tulsa homes - circa 1920.”

“1. The tfa worked with the statewide preservation partner, preservation oklahoma, to determine the annual list of the "most endangered properties in oklahoma" with their executive director, david pettyjohn. 2. Executive director amanda decort worked with other preservation groups, developers, and foundations to raise money to hire economic consultant don rypkema to study the impact of historic tax credits on community development in oklahoma. 3. To increase our exposure this year we have partnered with many local groups for events. Some examples are: a storefront window exhibit downtown with deco tulsa featuring terra-cotta artifacts from the tfa collection, an exhibit of original drawings from the tfa archives at typros "tulsa works" event, and opening the archives for the ahha first friday art walk. 4. We continue to partner with allied organizations such as the eastern oklahoma chapter of the aia; national trust for historic preservation, association of architectural organizations, arts and humanities council of tulsa, philbrook museum of art, gilcrease museum of art, circle cinema foundation, tulsa historical society, oklahoma historical society, leadership tulsa; preservation oklahoma; oklahoma arts and humanities council; price tower arts center; and ou school of urban design.”