Ambassador Hotel

Oklahoma’s first apartment-hotel was built by Patrick J. Hurley, who went onto became secretary of war under President Herbert Hoover and, later, an emissary to Russia and ambassador to China. The Ambassador Hotel, which opened its doors in 1929, was built mostly to serve as temporary quarters for some of the state’s newly wealthy oil barons while their mansions in the nearby Maple Ridge neighborhood (now a historic district) were under construction. Today, the hotel offers 55 rooms, eight o