Riverside Studio (Tulsa Spotlight Theater), Riverside Drive, Riverview, Tulsa, OK

            Built in 1928, this Modern International-style building was designed by Bruce Goff for Patti Adams Shriner to serve as a house and studio for her small music conservatory.  The building was one of Goff's first forays into the eccentric use of geometry that would define his later work, and a departure from his Art Deco roots.  The building was originally a house and studio owned by music teacher Patti Adams Shriner. The front wing was home to the music studio, while the rear wing had living quarters for Shriner, and overlooks the Arkansas River. Shriner only lived in the home for a short time, losing it to foreclosure in 1933 due to the Great Depression.

The exterior of the house is dominated by a large circular front window, which brings light into the foyer outside the studio auditorium, and two diagonally-oriented sets of rectangular windows on either side. A fountain, designed by Alfonso Iannelli, stands in the middle of the front steps leading up to the main entrance. The living quarters occupy a three-story wing that is set back from the front facade, with a tower over the entrance, and a much more restrained exterior than the studio wing.  The inside of the building was originally lavishly decorated with wooden panels from Japan, murals by artist Olinka Hrdy, black glass and green marble fireplaces, and aluminum leaf ceilings. Many of these decorative features were removed after the building was foreclosed upon in 1933.

The building was vacant and went through various receivers between 1933 and 1941, when it was purchased by actor Richard Mansfield Dickinson. Dickinson subsequently brought the building back into use as the Tulsa Spotlight Club, which uses the auditorium to perform plays, most notably Dickinson's adaptation of the temperance melodrama "The Drunkard," originally written in the 19th Century, which has been performed regularly at the building since 1953.  The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

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Taken in: United States / Oklahoma / West Tulsa (show map)

Taken on: July 26, 2023

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