An LLC headed by David Wanzer bought this property on the NE corner of NW 5th & Lee in January and has recently submitted an application to be placed on the National Register of historic places.

They are seeking the National Register designation as a first step towards a complete conversion of this project sometime next year. Wanzer said it will be rental apartments to the general standard seen in the Midtown Renaissance residential projects, which is to say quite nice.

The building is actually occupied by month-to-month tenants with an on-site manager, so it is operating and being maintained.

Interestingly, there is a lot directly east (between Town House and the modern home Wanzer helped design for Clint Spencer) that could accommodate another building. A broader plan has yet to be completely determined.


From the register application:

The Town House Hotel was built as a residential hotel, a particular type of multi-family residential construction common in urban areas from the 1920s to the 1940s. In four stories, it originally had 54 single-room residential units, a lobby, an office, a laundry, and a mechanical room. In the 1920s and 1930s, the “midtown” area of Oklahoma City, which had originally been dominated by modest single family homes, became the location of many apartment buildings and residential hotels of different sizes, serving the growing working population of downtown Oklahoma City. The Town House Hotel is one of two large residential hotels constructed in the “midtown” area, the other being the Century Hotel, constructed by the same owner.

The Town House Hotel an excellent of example of the multiple dwelling property type, with an eclectic mix of architectural styles including Art Deco and Spanish Colonial Revival. The building retains a high degree of integrity on the exterior and interior with few alterations or modernizations since it was constructed.













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