XTO Continues Petroleum Building Restoration

XTO Energy continues its amazing track record of historic building preservation. The company, which began by restoring the W. T. Waggoner building for its corporate headquarters and continued with amazing restorations of the Simpson Building next door and the Swift & Co. building in the Stockyards has now turned its attention to the Petroleum Building, the 1929 Wyatt C. Hedrick building near the Waggoner building. XTO has already restored the building’s base, removing a ’60s remodeling job that left the building with concrete panels and plate glass windows on its base and replacing it with the correct marble and old-fashioned windows.

Now, they’re working their way up the building, replacing all the modern plate glass windows with replicas of the building’s original 1929 operable windows. This will make a big difference in the appearance of the building. It is likely that they will finish by installing replicas of the building’s original rooftop spires, missing for many years. Click the images below for a bigger view of the progress: