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• Tulsa Zoo & Living Museum
  The Tulsa Zoo and Living Museum is found in Tulsa, Oklahoma on 78 acres of land in Mohawk Park, one of the biggest municipal parks in the country. The zoo is home to almost 1500 animals that involve 436 species, and is managed by the city parks department; after opening in 1927. It was named the favorite zoo of America in 2005 by Microsoft Game Studios and won a grant of $25,000, getting votes from across America that had been cast for many of the nation's best zoos, including the Bronx Zoo and San Diego Zoo. The Robert J. LaFortune North American Living Museum is also located on the grounds, inside four buildings that have won numerous awards including the best new exhibit when it was built in 1978. The buildings represent an area of the North American continent, named the Southern Lowlands, Arctic Tundra, Eastern Forest and Southwest Desert. Their displays contain plants, fossils, minerals, live animals and Native American relics. Some of the outstanding attributes are a 20,000 gallon shark aquarium, simulated earthquake and natural type walk-through cave. There is an elephant demonstration area in the 2.5 acre enclosure for Asian elephants which has been created so that visitors can gain some knowledge of these huge creatures, plus a safe and stimulating place for the elephants. Also included in the display is a state-of-the-art museum that showcases the history and life of these marvelous animals by using many interactive exhibits.

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• Tulsa Garden Center
  The Tulsa Garden Center is found inside Woodward Park, part of Tulsa, Oklahoma, containing beautiful gardens and the Tulsa Garden Center mansion that was constructed in 1919 and has many wonderful amenities like marble and hardwood floors, intricate ceilings, elegant chandeliers, 21 rooms and 10 bathrooms. The entire complex is called the Woodward Park complex, that had been part of a 160 acre plot of land that belonged to a Creek Indian named Helen Woodward Slemp, after whom the park was named. The Italianate villa was designed by well known local architect, Nobel B. Flemming, with construction beginning in 1919 and finishing in 1921, costing more than $100,000; becoming one of the most luxurious houses in the city, sitting on 13 landscaped acres. The house was constructed by David R. Travis, a Russian immigrant that moved here with his family in 1913, coming here from Ohio, after having succeeded in the scrapmetal business. Once here, Travis would go on to become very rich in the oil field equipment salvage business. The early estate, included the mansion, swimming pool, two greenhouses, two barns, two five room cottages and a solarium. The swimming pool was taken out years ago to make room for the arboretum parking lot.

January 11, 2011