Look up at this two-story Spanish Mission building at 2630 East Eleventh Street — Casa Loma Hotel, once known as the Max W. Campbell Building. Built in 1927 by Max Campbell in a Spanish Mission style, this two-story building was designed with retail spaces on the first floor and hotel rooms with in-room baths on the second. In 1932 it earned a new kind of distinction: when Route 66 was realigned to run along 11th Street, this became the first full-service hotel on Route 66 in Tulsa.
Decades later its significance was recognized in a 2010 listing on the National Register of Historic Places, a designation that followed earlier evaluations of Route 66 resources in studies from 1994 and 2003. The building's image reached modern audiences too — one photo is included in Tulsa-area National Register sites provided by Tulsa World in 2022. Stand close and let your eye trace the Spanish Mission echoes in its form, imagine the bustle of guests stepping down to the ground-floor shops, and consider the way a 1927 design met the needs of highway travelers when Route 66 ran along 11th Street in 1932.
That 11th Street corridor beneath your feet carried the highway traffic that gave this hotel its place in Route 66 history.