What do the Masonic Lodge Building (now the Journal Record
building), the old multistory Kinkade Hotel and Lawrence Hotel, an Army Chapel
at Fort Sill (1933) and Wesley United Methodist Church (OKC) (1928) share in common?
The architectural skill of Lawrence H. Bailey and the firm
Bailey and Alden. After completing
training in London, Baily traveled to the United States, finally arriving in
Oklahoma in 1903. William Matthews, busy
then designing the Overholser Mansion, took him on as a very junior partner.
As Oklahoma entered the Union in 1907 he was launching out
with his own firm. He went into partnership
with another local man, Virgil D. Alden, in 1920. Both men were members of the American
Institute of Architecture. Wesley
Methodist Church (UMC), designed by Leonard H. Bailey and his partner Virgil D.
Allen, was constructed between 1926 -1928.
Other buildings designed by Leonard H. Bailey exist around
the state and some have achieved a place on the National and/or Oklahoma
Register of Historic Places: The Prague Courthouse and Jail (1936), the New
Chapel at Fort Sill (near twin in style to Wesley; 1933). Other jobs included the 1909 St. Paul's
Parish House in Oklahoma City and the Woodward Arts Theater.
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