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Stories from our Past
As we approach the centennial celebration of our building, the Centennial Committee is sharing stories from this past century at Trinity to remind us of our legacy and to inspire us as we move into our next hundred years.
If your memories of Trinity begin in recent years, you may not fully recognize the photo attached as the grand entrance to our building on the east side, created around 1990. This area, though beautifully crafted and landscaped, still presented some difficulties that needed to be addressed.
Trinity’s Day School shared this entrance, and amid growing security concerns, access to our properties was fairly unimpeded when it came to foot traffic. Our children could only enjoy a sliver of available playground space, and, most important of all, our church didn’t have sufficient parking for typical Sunday services, let alone a large funeral or wedding!
The culprit, standing directly in the way of our dreams, was the Tulsa Auto Hotel, a rather decrepit, red brick edifice which butted up against our building to the south. For decades, Trinity’s leadership sought to purchase the Auto Hotel, negotiating to no avail. The price was just too steep. Countless brainstorming meetings were held, all based on the premise of someday owning this neighboring behemoth. Would we buy the Auto Hotel, renovate it into our own private parking garage, cutting entrances to the church from three of its six levels? Or would we someday demolish it and fashion a new parking lot to our south, with a security fence, a new playground for our children, and a new main entrance on the southwest corner of our property? Obviously, you can figure out how the story ended, as the structure was finally purchased in 2004, and for the first time in our history, Trinity’s campus stretched to include an entire city block.
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