Proud to support the and, since 2012, has been replaced by TELLING OF OKLAHOMA’S STORY a newer crosstown expressway located roughly five blocks south of the original location. through its people By the time Draper retired as executive vice president of the Chamber in 1968, he had dedicated the last fifty years of his life guiding Oklahoma City through the twentieth century. Following retirement he began volunteering for the Oklahoma Memorial Association and used his connections with the Hefner family to secure a donation of their family mansion to the organization in 1970. He then led a fund-raising campaign to restore the building to its former glory and install what became the Anthony Oklahoma Heritage Gardens on its grounds. By 1972, when most renovations were complete, the organization moved into the building, made it their first permanent headquarters, and named it the Oklahoma Heritage House. That same year Draper became vice president of the organization, which Stanley Draper at the Anthony Oklahoma was renamed the Oklahoma Heritage Heritage Gardens at the Oklahoma Heritage Association and is known today as the House, the Oklahoma Hall of Fame’s first Oklahoma Hall of Fame. permanent home, during the 1970s. Located at When Stanley Draper passed away 201 N. W. 14th Street, the property is now owned by St. Luke’s United Methodist Church and the An aerial view of the Crosstown Expressway from heart failure on January 8, 1976, Oklahoma Hall of Fame makes its home in the under construction in 1965. Courtesy Oklahoma Oklahoma City lost one of the most Gaylord-Pickens Museum at N. W. 13th Street Historical Society Oklahoma Publishing Company profound urban planners of the twentieth- and Shartel Avenue. Photography Collection. century. A statue of Draper by Leonard McMurry, inducted to the Oklahoma Hall From left, E.K. Gaylord, Mrs. Grace Anne Draper, of Fame in 1981, that had been dedicated Stanley Draper, and George H. Shirk at the in 1974 in Bicentennial Park, between City Sheraton-Oklahoma Ballroom during the breakfast dedication of the Stanley Draper Expressway on Hall and the Civic Center Music Hall, January 8, 1966. remains today. *Additional items featuring Stanley Draper from the Oklahoma Hall of Fame collections are available on our website, oklahomahof.com, with more to be added in the near future. Stanley Draper at the unveiling of his statue at Bicentennial Park in Oklahoma City in January 1975. Courtesy Oklahoma Historical Society. 54