Brookside District News Today

Check out modern homes in new communities around Tulsa

On the last day of April 1917, a pair of real-estate developers paid $52,400 at an auction for 120 acres of a Creek Nation allotment just south of what was then the Tulsa city limits. In reporting this bit of news, the old Tulsa Democrat mentioned that “the new owners,” Lionel Aaronson and M.M. Travis, “expect to make this a most excellent residential district” modeled after the famous Country Club District in Kansas City. In fact, they even planned to use the same landscape...