{"id":1779,"date":"2009-04-27T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-27T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1779"},"modified":"2014-06-15T05:14:24","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T05:14:24","slug":"my-world-philtower-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1779","title":{"rendered":"My World – Philtower Building"},"content":{"rendered":"
Philtower was completed in 1928 by oilman Waite Phillips, brother of the more famous Frank Phillips of Phillips Petroleum Corporation. Its not really art deco but a neo-gothic design with art deco touches. It fits in very well with the other buildings downtown.<\/p>\n

Its a great building and all that but the real interesting thing about it, to me, is that Phillips deeded the building to the Boy Scouts of America in 1941 to finance operations of the Boy Scout camp Philmont a huge ranch in northern New Mexico, that he also donated to the scouts. If you have been involved in scouting you should have at least heard about Philmont.<\/div>\n

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In 1977 a group of local investors purchased the building from the Boy Scouts. They have kept the building in excellent condition. They converted 10 floors to residential apartments. If you are in the market you can check it out here<\/a>. The site has a lot more photographs (better photos to be sure) and more historical information.
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Philtower has its own gallery on the first floor with original floorplans and architectural drawings. It is very cool.
\"\"<\/a> The building has a very ornate lobby. It is not gold leaf like the Philcade across the street but still just as spectacular.
\"\"<\/a> I just love stairways like this. \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

For more views of our shared world check out That’s My World<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Philtower was completed in 1928 by oilman Waite Phillips, brother of the more famous Frank Phillips of Phillips Petroleum Corporation. Its not really art deco but a neo-gothic design with art deco touches. It fits in very well with the other buildings downtown. Its a great building and all that but the real interesting thing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[715],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-my-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}