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1926: Day Building
Day Building (also known as Elote)

1926 | 512 S. Boston Avenue, Tulsa, Oklahoma | The Day Building features a rectangular plan, two-story masonry structure with brick walls, and multiple reveals framing openings on the front façade. It was designed as a commercial building for a dentist. Dr. Day sold the building to C.C. Cole of the Boston Avenue Methodist Church Building Committee soon after it was completed. The two-story building is rectangular in plan. The brick facade has stone accents arranged in receding reveal planes, framing each opening. The result is a classic two-part commercial block. The design continues the theme-variation-development of a decorative feature into an organizational framework. According to De Long, this theme of receding reveals was employed in other projects by Goff, and can also be found in the work of the European architects Josef Hoffman, Clemens Holzmeister and Wilhelm Kreis, whose projects were familiar to Goff. Now the home to the restaurant Elote Cafe, the Day Office Building downtown famously housed Nelson's Buffeteria for decades.