Automobile Alley
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Automobile Alley
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| Location | N Broadway Avenue from NW 4th Street to W. Park Place, Oklahoma City |
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| Coordinates | 35°28′41.0311″N 97°30′57.8311″W / 35.478064194°N 97.516064194°WCoordinates: 35°28′41.0311″N 97°30′57.8311″W / 35.478064194°N 97.516064194°W |
| Area | 26.4 acres (10.7 ha) |
| Built | Various |
| Architect | Various |
| Architectural style | Early Commercial Classical Revival Modern |
| NRHP Reference # | 99000351 |
| Added to NRHP | March 18, 1999 |
Automobile Alley neighborhood and Historic District is an upscale Urban area of Oklahoma City, located roughly along North Broadway Avenue in Downtown Oklahoma City. The district contains numerous low and mid-rise heritage buildings once home to the city's automobile dealerships, that today hosts many of the city's top bars and restaurants, retail shops, and urban residences alongside modern construction consisting mostly of residential housing and hotels. Automobile Alley is listed in the National Historic Register of neighborhoods.
The Automobile Alley Historic District was primarily developed as a commercial district just north of downtown Oklahoma City. During the 1920s Automobile Alley, A-Alley for short, was a popular auto row, home to more than 2/3rds of the city's car dealerships for several decades in the 1900s. Numerous national and international brands had showrooms in Automobile Alley and the district thrived as a commercial hub for the state until the decline of downtown Oklahoma City during the 1970s and 1980s.
Remnants of the city's auto history still exist in Automobile Alley including urban show-palaces for Mercedes Benz of Oklahoma City, Jaguar of Oklahoma City, and Volvo of Oklahoma City, and the Bob Moore Auto Group is located nearby in MidTown. Today, these luxury icons of the automobile industry coexist alongside numerous retail shoppes, restaurants and bars that have opened in the ground floors of the historic buildings, with office and residential conversions in upper floors.
Automobile Alley has generally defined as the 20 square city block area north of the Oklahoma City CBD, centered along North Broadway Avenue between N. 13th street to N 4th street; where the city's prominent automobile retailers had lavish showrooms, regional headquarters, and maintenance facilities. Today's Automobile Alley has expanded to become a true neighborhood (48 square blocks), engulfing the former Triangle/Flatiron District towards the East; now the district boundaries extends roughly Robinson Avenue to Interstate 235.
Historic Buildings in Automobile Alley are noted at night for their colorful Neon lighting and advertising displays, including numerous retail signage and building wraps along North Broadway Avenue.
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