For nearly a century, the Tulsa Boys’ Home has provided opportunity, healing and hope to more than 10,000 troubled boys and their families. Its campus built in 1979, however, was showing “industrial strength” wear and tear from years of caring for adolescent boys. 

Selser Schaefer Architects worked with the Tulsa Boys’ Home staff — with the help of a planning grant from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation — to transform the campus from a typical “group home” into a classic community. Linking school, home, church, recreation and work spaces to operate like a town reflects what the boys will encounter when they leave Tulsa Boys’ Home as young men.