Comments on: Last Glances at the India Temple Building

By: Harvey Hudson

Harvey Hudson — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 02:23:26 +0000

Did they happen to find the corner stone or the time capsule that was placed at the time of construction?

By: Terri

Terri — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 17:54:04 +0000

I continue to be astonished at the fact that people ever thought it was an improvement to install tilt-up concrete facades over buildings–especially buildings like the India Temple.

By: Nick Roberts

Nick Roberts — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 15:23:31 +0000

James..I would probably fight to save Devon Tower and the auditorium, and so on, decades from now…

By: Lynne

Lynne — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 14:44:29 +0000

It’s heartbreaking to see that beautiful facade and know that the India Temple could have been saved. What a huge loss for downtown.

By: James Evans

James Evans — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 14:08:01 +0000

The only good news about this is that in 100 years a new energy company will be tearing down the Devon tower and the new SandRidge facilities. Cheers.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 14:05:42 +0000

Maybe, through this demolition tragedy, OKC could make their ordinances more stringent and/ or better. This has happened twice, it probably shouldn’t happen a third time.

By: Brad

Brad — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 13:38:05 +0000

I somewhat enthusiastically supported the SandRidge plan. After seeing these images and watching some of the demolition I’m quite disappointed. So much of the building appeared capable of restoration. For me its very difficult to moderate a desire to retain the great buildings we have and allow property owners to do what they desire with the property they own.

I think the sad reality is that an owner with the desire to restore this building could have. For some reason SandRidge and/or Tom Ward didn’t.

By: Nick Roberts

Nick Roberts — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 09:10:52 +0000

Steve, do you doubt that I would tell SR exactly how I feel about them?

Maybe I shouldn’t, but I don’t have that kind of diplomatic self-restraint.

By: Larry in OKC

Larry in OKC — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 05:39:03 +0000

Not at all, not at all. There is plenty of blame to go around on it (at least the previous owners were willing to sell the building to developers that were going to renovate). SandRidge gets the brunt of it because they are the ones responsible for pulling the plug.

By: Rover`

Rover` — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 01:41:04 +0000

Everybody vilifies SandRidge, but the real culprit who destroyed this building in the first place is apparently Kerr McGee and the others who let this fall into disrepair and then destroyed it. So far the critics have let them off scott free.