White City fills these Midtown Tulsa blocks between 2nd and 11th Streets. Its edges are 2nd Street to the north, Fulton Avenue to the east, 11th Street to the south and Yale Avenue to the west. The neighborhood was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001; the listed area includes 480 buildings, of which 325 retain their historic significance, and two parks.
This place began long before houses: it was part of the Creek Nation until tribal property allocation passed this parcel to Edward Crowell. In 1912 Glenn T. Braden, founder of Oklahoma Natural Gas Company (now ONE Gas), bought a large part of the tract and built the White City Jersey Dairy Farm, importing a herd of Jersey cattle. The farm’s name came from the white barns and silos he erected.
When Braden died in 1923 his children closed the dairy, platted the land and began selling lots. Development of the White City subdivision began in 1926 and even included a park named White City. Picture the 480 buildings and two parks that still trace Braden's dairy-farm plat into today's streets.