Skirvin Hilton Hotel
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| General information | |
| Location | 1 Park Avenue, Oklahoma City, OK 73102  United States
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| Opening | 1911 (Skirvin Hotel) 2007 (renovation and reopening) |
| Closed | 1988 for renovation and improvement |
| Owner | Skirvin Partners, LLC |
| Management | Marcus Hotels & Resorts, Inc. |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 13 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect |
Solomon Layton Hicks & Forsyth Kahler Slater |
| Other information | |
| Number of rooms | 225 |
| Number of suites | 21 |
| Number of restaurants | 1 |
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Skirvin Hotel
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| Location | 1 Park Avenue, Oklahoma City, OK 73102 |
| Coordinates | 35°28′8″N 97°30′49″W / 35.46889°N 97.51361°W |
| Area | 1 acre (0.4 ha) |
| Built | 1911 |
| NRHP Reference # | 79002010 |
| Added to NRHP | October 10, 1979 |
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Coordinates: 35°28′8″N 97°30′49″W / 35.46889°N 97.51361°W
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The Skirvin Hotel at the corner of 1st Street and Broadway in downtown Oklahoma City is the city's oldest hotel. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Skirvin Hilton Hotel is a member of Historic Hotels of America, the official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
First opened in 1911, the Skirvin Hotel contained 224 rooms in a ten story two winged tower. A third 12 story wing was added in 1925, and then in 1929–30 all three wings were leveled off to 14 floors with a total of 525 rooms. The hotel is named for its founder, William Balser "Bill" Skirvin, whose daughter, Perle Mesta, became the ambassador to Luxembourg under Harry Truman. The hotel closed down in 1988 and sat abandoned for most of the next 19 years, until it was renovated and re-opened as part of the Hilton chain of hotels in 2007. The renovation project restored the original exterior finish, installed historically accurate windows, reconfigured guest rooms and added new guest elevators. The process to return the hotel to life started nearly a decade earlier, however, when, in 1999, Oklahoma City Mayor Kirk Humphreys appointed a Skirvin Solutions Committee to evaluate whether or not the historic building could be saved. The committee started its work by touring other, restored historic hotels, looking at how those projects were paid for, and then recommended in October 2000 that the City of Oklahoma City explore creating a public-private partnership to get the Skirvin re-opened. In May 2002, Oklahoma City acquired the building from its current owners for $2.875 million and issued a request for proposals from potential developers late that same year. Partners in Development, a firm put together by principal John Weeman, made a proposal to renovate the building for $42.1 million and to re-open it as a full-service Hilton operated by Marcus Hotels and Resorts. The Oklahoma City Urban Renewal Authority selected Partners in Development as the developer in January 2004. Weeman bought the building from Oklahoma City in 2005, and, using money he invested plus funds from various other public sources including tax increment financing, grants, Empowerment Zone credits, historic tax credits and New Markets tax credits, completed its renovation for about $51 million.
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