Oil Baron Phillips Mausoleum
by Debra Martz
Title
Oil Baron Phillips Mausoleum
Artist
Debra Martz
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Photograph - Photography With Digital Enhancements
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Oil Baron Phillips Mausoleum at Woolaroc by Debra Martz
In 1944, Six years prior to his death, Frank and his wife, Jane, deeded his prized ranch over to the Frank Phillips Foundation. To this day, the property continues to be maintained through this organization. Jane Phillips died in 1948, followed by Frank two years later. They, along with their son John, who died in 1953, are interred in a mausoleum on the ranch which is nestled into a side of a hill near the museum. In 1925 oilman Frank Phillips built a ranch retreat, Woolaroc, on 3,700 acres in the Osage Hills in northern Oklahoma. Today it is a wildlife preserve, home to many species of native and exotic animals and includes a large museum with an outstanding collection of western art and artifacts, Native American material, one of the largest collections of Colt firearms in the world, and much much more. The name Woolaroc was derived from three words that described the area; woods, lakes and rocks.
©Debra Martz
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"Oklahoma"
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December 5th, 2019
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Comments (27)
Kathi Isserman
CONGRATULATIONS your beautiful image has been FEATURED on the HOME PAGE of SHOWCASING THE SOUTH GROUP! Please add this to the discussion 2019-2020 FEATURES L
John M Bailey
Congratulations on your feature in the Fine Art America Group "Images That Excite You!"
Belinda Greb
I love how the building is just nestled into the land in an unobtrusive way - he must have loved the land very much, and what a good deed he did to establish a preserve.
Debra Martz replied:
You are so right, Belinda. from all I've read he loved the lands very very much. And yes, a good deed and set it up very well obviously for it to still be maintained at a top level.
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