Location: Edmond - OK
Architect: Truett Coston of Coston Frankfurt & Short
Build Year: 1954

Coston House

The very modern Coston House was designed and built around an existing territorial farmhouse:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To seamlessly blend old and new, Coston mimicked the A-frame roof design of the Land Run-era farmhouse in the new addition.

Here’s the home today:

You can read more about this award-winning design here and here.

Coston House – Bird’s Eye View

Coston House – Floorplan

Coston House – Rendering

 

Location: Oklahoma City - OK
Architect: Truett Coston of Coston Frankfurt & Short
Build Year: 1949-1957

St. Luke’s United Methodist Church

St. Luke’s is perhaps Oklahoma City’s grandest mid-century modern church and is a masterful piece of art and architecture. Architect Truett Coston began the project by designing the Education Building in 1949. It was constructed the following year and the congregation used that space while Coston began designing the main sanctuary and chapel.

For the sanctuary and chapel, Coston spared no expense and customized every detail, from the exterior Norwegian Blue granite where the name of the church appears in gold leaf to the three interlocking brass circles (called a triquetra) that make up the door handles, to the shellstone walls in the 1,800-seat sanctuary that are reminiscent of the fisherman who were the first apostles, to the 185-foot bell tower with a carillon of 42 bells.

As for the 40-foot-tall stained glass windows that appear on both the north and south sides of the church, artist Robert Harmon captured various Biblical characters in magnificent modern detail. Also, because one of St. Luke’s parishioners was confined to a wheelchair and found it difficult to maneuver around the church, Coston became a real pioneer when he made the building handicapped accessible.

Today, the church is little changed and is as remarkable now as it was when it was completed in 1957. Go here to view a rare St. Luke’s brochure from that time.

St. Luke’s Methodist Church – Education Bldg Scans

St-Luke’s-Timeline