[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0166]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Playing peekaboo all by itself Thursday, a catalpa tree in the patio of the abandoned Huckins Hotel soars five stories high to present downtowners with its own white-blossomed signs of spring, framed by the vacant hotel. What's going to happen to the Huckins Hotel? "We are asked that question more than any other one," James White, director of the OKlahoma City Urban Renewal Authority , said Thursday. "Our plan provides for it to stay where it is and be a hotel." White expainled that when the downtown Oklahoma City urban renewal plan was prepared, the Huckins was operating as a hotel on the southeast corner at Main and Broadway it has occupied for 59 years......Little more that a year ago, George Hanlin, a Chevy Chase, Md., real estate investor, bought the hotel at a sheriff's sale....Represting Hanlin was John Spradling, an Oklahoma City Attorney, who said Thursday he doesn't know what will happen to the hotel. "At the time of the sheriff's sale, Mr. Hanlin made an agreement with Robert G. Buchanan," Sprading said...