VISIT OKLAHOMABartlesville Northeast Oklahoma’s Center for Oil Barons, Culture & Arts 2019 VISITORS GUIDE Visit Bartlesville 201 SW Keeler • Bartlesville, OK 74003 918-336-8709 • 800-364-8708 VisitBartlesville.com Welcome to Bartlesville! Cultural Groups Bartlesville Community Center Bartlesville, located in the northeast corner of Oklahoma, invites Bartlesville Art Association: BartlesvilleArtAssociation.org you to explore history, architecture, culture, and hospitality. From Broadway in Bartlesville: 918-336-2787 or 800-618-2787 A Frank Lloyd Wright’s Price Tower you can see the beautiful BartlesvilleCommunityCenter.com Osage Hills, home of the unique Woolaroc Museum and Wildlife Perfect Site Preserve. Understand the energy and history of the American Bartlesville Symphony: 918-336-2787 or 800-618-2787 West by visiting the Frank Phillips Home, Nellie Johnstone No. BartlesvilleSymphony.org 1, or the Phillips Petroleum Company Museum. Learn more of Bartlesville Choral Society: 918-336-2787 or 800-618-2787 the story at places like the Bartlesville Area History Museum, BvilleChoralSociety.org Delaware Tribal Archives Museum or the Tom Mix Museum Bartlesville Community Concert Association: and the Dewey Hotel & Museum located in Dewey. 918-336-2787 or 800-618-2787, BCCAMusic.org The attractions and events of Bartlesville and Dewey represent Bartlesville Civic Ballet: 918-336-2787 or 800-618-2787 a story of human spirit and perseverance. The exceptional BalletBartlesville.com museums, outstanding architecture, and one-of-a-kind cultural events make for a community full of charm and class. Fill your visit Children’s Musical Theatre: 918-336-0558, CMTOnStage.com Connect With Friends with historic tours, family friendly attractions, and fun events. Or, Theater Bartlesville: 918-336-1900, TheaterBartlesville.com make the most of a business trip at one of our unique restaurants, beautiful parks, or friendly retail shops. Area residents help roll See A Show out the red carpet for visitors, no matter their reason for staying. Children of all ages love to explore the AT&SF Steam Locomotive No. 940, Bruce Goff’s Sooner Park Play Tower, or Rent Event Space the magical Kiddie Park. Outdoor enthusiasts can find adventure at the Pathfinder Parkway Trail, Lee Lake, Frontier and Sooner Pools, or Osage Hills State Park, located just 14 miles west of BartlesvilleCommunityCenter.com downtown Bartlesville. More than a destination, it’s an experience. Enhance your stay by attending one of our many festivals and STAY. or call 918-337-2787 take in the food, music, and culture of the area. Highlights of the year include Sunfest Arts and Music Festival, OKM Music Festival, Kidsfest at Woolaroc, Oklahoma Indian Summer Festival, and Dewey’s Western Heritage Weekend. DINE. Bartlesville has played host to oil barons, Oklahoma legends, and well known celebrities. 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Maria Swindell Gus, Executive Director Visit Bartlesville 201 SW Keeler • Bartlesville, OK 74003 918-336-8709 • 800-364-8708 VisitBartlesville.com PRICE TOWER ARTS CENTER | INN AT PRICE TOWER 510 Dewey Ave • Bartlesville, OK • 877.424.2424 • PriceTower.org 2 VISIT BARTLESVILLE 800-364-8708 • VisitBartlesville.com 3 Major Area Events SunFest Arts and Music Festival - May 31, June 1 & 2 Sunfest is an annual arts and craft three day festival held at Sooner Park the weekend after Memorial Day, bringing you the best mix of music, art, food, and activities available in Green Country. 918-331-0456 • BartlesvilleSunfest.org OKM Music Festival - June 8-14 This popular festival, now in it’s 35th year, has the best and Downtown Bartlesville brightest talent in Oklahoma and beyond – featuring classical, pop, country, rock, jazz, and chamber artists. Enjoy daytime FREE ADMISSION Visit the and evening concerts with several in new venues! Children of all ages appreciate the Especially for Kids activities that 410 South Keeler, Bartlesville, Oklahoma include music education opportunities, painting and puppet Frank Phillips Open Monday-Saturday 10 am - 4 pm shows. Made possible through the support of the Oklahoma Arts Council, as well as corporate, individual, and foundation Closed Holidays Home patrons throughout the United States. Take a tour of the 26 room home of oil pioneer, 855-631-TOUR (8687) 918-336-9900 • OKMMusic.org Frank Phillips, in historic downtown Bartlesville. Phillips66Museum.com 1925 Woolaroc Ranch Road | Bartlesville, OK 74003 | woolaroc.org | 1107 SE Cherokee | Bartlesville, OK 74006 | 918.336.2491 ext. 103 Oklahoma Indian Summer - September 20 & 21 Northeast Oklahoma’s premiere Native American Indian festival featuring an art competition with juried art show, Dewey Hotel Museum th gallery exhibit, traditional arts and crafts, children’s games, 28 Annual The Grand Ole Lady of the Prairie Native films and intertribal pow-wow. THEATRE Dewey Antique Show Owned by Washington County Historical Society 918-332-8970 • OKIndianSummer.org Saturday June 1, 2019 Constructed in 1899 • Original Jake Bartles Water Well HERITAGE 8am to 5pm - $4 Admission Home and Hotel to entrepreneur Jacob Bartles and Nannie Journeycake Bartles CAFÉ & PUB (Always the first Saturday in June) Western Heritage Weekend - 4th weekend of One of the fi rst examples of Victorian architecture in Indian Territory September, 28 & 29 Popular rest stop for cowboys, oilmen, and outlaws Washington County A two-day kid friendly celebration of Oklahoma’s Western Tom Mix Jail - Replica of the original structure with original metal and hardware Home Decor Heritage. Enjoy a Western Day Parade and free Tom Mix Fair Building Festival with longhorn cattle drive in downtown Dewey, before 1109 N Delaware St, Dewey, OK Gifts • Apparel heading to Prairie Song I.T. for the Wild West Show with trick riding, roping and shooting. Gail 918-333-5200 118 E 2nd St 918-336-8709 or 918-534-1555 • CityOfDewey.com or Leah 918-440-3375 PrairieSong.net • TomMixMuseum.com Bartlesville, OK Sponsored by Antique & Plays Musicals Impro Dinner Theatre Collectable Association Visit the Dewey Hotel Museum and imagine life in the Old West. Gourmet Burgers Ruebens Apr – Nov, 10am – 4pm - Tue-Sat Homemade Fries Next door to the 3 fl oors to tour, staircase access only -OVER 106 BOOTHS- Bartlesville Print Shop *Wheelchair accessible to fi rst fl oor only 306 E Don Tyler Ave, Dewey DEALERS FROM 5 STATES 918.440.2393 facebook.com/DeweyAntiqueShow 801 Delaware, Dewey, OK 74029 • 918.534.0215 • WCHS-OK.org HeritageTheatreCafeandPub.com 4 VISIT BARTLESVILLE 800-364-8708 • VisitBartlesville.com 5 in his father’s Minnehoma Oil Company for $5 and their first well Today hit pay dirt. The Getty family stayed in Bartlesville for extended At the turn of the 20th century Bartlesville boomed with periods of time and J. Paul Getty spent summers as a roustabout wildcatters and oil pioneers. Bartlesville residents of the 21st throughout his teenage years. century work in the energy industry, health care, education and so Banker and barber Frank Phillips arrived in Bartlesville in 1904 much more. Many of these modern day pioneers can be seen in and started Citizen Bank and Trust. Brother L.E. Phillips joined him downtown restaurants and bars to enjoy varied cuisine and hear and they drilled on a sublease north of town. Their 4th well, the live music that is uniquely Oklahoma. While Bartlesville honors the Anna Anderson, came in a gusher and was followed by 80 straight past, we also embrace the future and love to celebrate. JACOB BARTLES producing wells. Frank built his Bartlesville mansion, now the Frank Phillips Home, in 1909. When oil skyrocketed during World War I, the brothers acquired another sub-lease, brought in a gusher, which produced 100 barrels per day, and formed Phillips Petroleum Company in 1917 with 27 employees. Innovation Utility magnate H. L. Dougherty came to Bartlesville in 1912 to organize the Empire Gas and Fuel Company, which opened a research facility in 1916. Dougherty and the Chamber of Commerce secured a U.S. Bureau of Mines Petroleum Research All historical photos courtesy Bartlesville Area History Museum. Center for Bartlesville in 1918. Empire Gas would later become Cities Service Oil Company. Phillips Petroleum added its own research center in 1925, Our Story the same year Frank established his Woolaroc Ranch retreat. Visitors and residents alike enjoy OKM Music Festival, The Boom Phillips successfully promoted its new aviation fuel in 1927 when Humble Beginning… the Woolaroc plane, piloted by Art Goebels, won the historic Dole Oklahoma Indian Summer, Sunfest, Dewey’s Western Oklahoma’s commercial oil and gas industry was born in 1897 In 1899, the AT&SF Railroad completed its depot on the south Heritage Weekend and the Kiddie Park. Sports fans can watch bank, the first oil trains departed for Kansas refineries, and Jake Pineapple Race. in Bartlesville, Indian Territory, when the Cudahy No. 1 “Nellie Phillips attracted Russian immigrant Armais Arutunoff to American Legion Baseball at Doenges Memorial Stadium, Johnstone” oil well came in a gusher. Bartles moved his store north to found the town of Dewey, named Phillips 66 Gymnastics and Splash Club at Adams Gymnasium, after Admiral George Dewey, whose victory at Manila Bay was current Bartlesville in 1928. Arutunoff invented an electric submersible Investors George Keeler and William Johnstone came to this motor that could pump oil from deep inside wells. He founded the and the competitive sports at Oklahoma Wesleyan University. area of the Cherokee, Delaware and Osage in the early 1870s to news. Bartlesville Community Center presents the Broadway in The prospect of oil was a magnet for oilmen, lease hounds, REDA Pump Company in 1930, which later merged with TRW.