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Hotel Black

5 N Hudson Ave, Oklahoma City, OK

An 11-story Native American Art Deco hotel built after the 1928 oil boom, now an office building called One North Hudson.

📅 1930–present🏛️ HotelRepurposed
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The story

Lucian Black built his eleven-story hotel in 1930 for about $600,000, one of several ornate hotels put up in Oklahoma City after the 1928 oil boom. It had around 200 rooms, charged roughly $2 to $3 a day, and competed with the Skirvin, Huckins, and Biltmore. What set it apart was its geometric and Indian-design ornamentation, in what Retro Metro OKC calls a Native American Art Deco style.

The design carried over to the American Motor Hotel next door, an eight-story building built by Oliver P. Kernadle that provided parking for nearby businesses, including the Black. The hotel portion later became an office building called One North Hudson. The adjoining parking garage on Hudson still stands, though it is a separate property.

What's There Now

The hotel building is now an office building called One North Hudson.

Everything that was here

Did you know?

The Black competed on price, at roughly $2 to $3 a day.
The neighboring American Motor Hotel was an eight-story parking structure.
The ornamentation was geometric and Indian-themed.

Nearby history

Mercantile Building (Levy Building)

30 N Hudson Ave · 35 m away
An eight-story office building that survived three dynamite blasts before it finally fell on February 29, 1976.

Globe Life Insurance offices

311 W Grand Ave · 195 m away
Globe Life Insurance Company bought the building in 1953 and kept offices there for 21 years.

Midwest Theatre

16 N Harvey Ave · 239 m away
A 1,700-seat atmospheric movie palace that hosted world premieres of Black Gold and Cimarron, and is now a parking garag

Warner Theatre (Overholser Opera House / Orpheum)

217 W Grand Ave · 255 m away
It opened as an opera house in 1903, became the Orpheum and then the Warner, and in the 1950s was Oklahoma City's first

Biltmore Hotel

228 W Grand Ave · 269 m away
At 33 stories it was the tallest building in Oklahoma, and it was brought down with explosives in 1977, four years after

Civic Center Music Hall (Municipal Auditorium)

201 N Walker Ave · 273 m away
A New Deal auditorium that opened in 1937, was remodeled in 1966, and is still one of the city's main stages.

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Sourceshttps://www.okhistory.org/research/hmresults?no=3n