Storyteller: Goodwin, Shari

Interviewer: Bertalot, Lorretta

Date: 11/18/2019

Language: English

Initiative: Tulsans Talk

Description: Shari Goodwin and Michelle Place discuss the history of Boston Avenue United Methodist Church. It began meetings in the Presbyterian Mission, and then a brush arbor before constructing a wood church, then a brick church and finally a beautiful art deco cathedral. Adah Robinson and Bruce Goff collaborated her design ideas with his architectural skills. The stock market crashed and monetary pledges were difficult to fill. Growth of the church with ministers like Dr. Galloway and Dr. Biggs. The Broken Arrow Expressway plans at first encroached on the church. Additions and remodeling were done over the years and endowment funds were set up.

Subjects: Reverend Chenoweth, a Southern Methodist Church in Tulsa, Bruce Goff, Adah Robinson, Moving day, USO at the church, Depression, Loan paid 1946, Supporting a Foreign Missionary, TV Services, Remodeling sanctuary, Adding a mosaic to the sanctuary, Cantilever addition, Redirecting the Broken Arrow Expressway, Addition of the Columbarium, and the Jubilee Center, the Needlework project, Mosaics, Endowment Funds, Art Deco Symbolism , Resources for study