While Tulsa is a small town on the prarie and certainly cant compete with the larger, older, cities on this thread... Unfortunately it can put up quite a battle on the tearing down buildings front. I think we have torn down more than we have built in our downtown. Here is but a sampling.
First a few of the old theater palaces and show houses.
The orpheum
The Ritz
The Akdar
The Coliseum
Grand
Some of the other bildings in or near downtown that have been lost.
Interior of the Mayo Hotel
Lobby of Mayo
Hotel Tulsa
Alvin Hotel
Brady Hotel
Reeder building
Halliburton/Abbot building
Tulsa Medical Arts building
Daniel building
Pioneer building
Clinton building
Central National Bank building
Goodwill building
McBirney building
Skaggs building
Tulsa County Courthouse
Morningside Hospital
Palace Clothiers
Carnegie Library
Tulsa's Art-deco municipal airport.
Some various small schools and churches, all gone now.
There are lots more that were torn down, but will have to find pics.
BTW we have lots of parking lots downtown to look at now. Yuck. Fortunately some of the larger more impressive buildings that were built in Tulsas heydays of the 1920s were spared the wrecking ball. They are considered treasures now. Sure wish we had a few of those Theater Palaces left though. And what a great museum or other use that Courthouse could have been used for. At one time Tulsas population was over 9,000 people per square mile. Suburban type sprawl has brought it down to about 1,900 people per square mile now.