1925 | 115 E. 5th Street, Tulsa, Oklahoma | The Tulsa Building was the largest building Goff worked on before the Boston Avenue Methodist Church. It was recently restored and opened as a boutique hotel. Through his study of work by others Goff learned in a time-honored way. He restricted his models to early modern work that distinguishes his approach, and his extreme youth and seemingly remote location in Oklahoma made his progress impressive. The Tulsa Building had been founded by local business people in 1924, and the following year it joined with the Chamber of Commerce to commission Rush, Endacott & Rush to design a new building that would serve both organizations. Working drawings for Goff’s resulting design were ready by November 1925, and the seven-story structure, which became known as the Tulsa Building, was completed two years later. It was Goff’s first realized building to utilize skyscraper construction, with limestone cladding attached to a steel frame, and it remains one of his largest completed buildings. The abstracted geometric details of the facade, and particularly the arcuated motif of the cresting, again recall Eliel Saarinen’s Tribune entry.