Hightower Park is a pocket park in

Oklahoma City Oklahoma City (), officially the City of Oklahoma City, and often shortened to OKC, is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The county seat of Oklahoma County, it ranks 20th among United States cities in population, a ...

, in the U.S. state of

Oklahoma Oklahoma (; Choctaw language, Choctaw: ; chr, ᎣᎧᎳᎰᎹ, ''Okalahoma'' ) is a U.S. state, state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States, bordered by Texas on the south and west, Kansas on the nor ...

Description and history

Hightower Park is a grassy pocket park located at 208

Patience Latting Patience Sewell Latting (August 27, 1918 – December 29, 2012) was an American politician who served as Mayor of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, from 1971 to 1983. Latting was the first female Mayor of Oklahoma City. Early life Latting was born in T ...

Circle in downtown Oklahoma City, near City Hall, the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, and the Ronald J. Norick Downtown Library. Funding for the park has been provided by the annual Dean A. McGee Awards. In 2018, Beatriz Mayorca's collection of colorful benches and chairs, called ''Nurture'', was installed in the park. A few dozen people attended the dedication ceremony. Mayorca was selected by the Downtown OKC Partnership's Downtown Initiatives public art program; she said she "saw the park as an opportunity to provide seating in shaded spaces and to use colors inspired by her Latin American heritage".

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