This stadium is the home to the University of Oklahoma football team. Memorial stadium is often called the palace on the prairie or Owen field. The architect of this stadium was Layton and Hicks and it broke ground in 1922. The stadium was finished and opened in 1923. The stadium has since undergone multiple renovations all done by HOK Sports/360 Architecture. This stadium is very special to me because I have been an OU football fan my entire life. I have a lot of memories coming to games from my childhood and also from my years of attending OU. Although the palace is very large and can fit approximately 80,000 fans, it has a small feeling to it and you feel like you are very close from any seat in the whole stadium. One thing that has always stood out to me was how good of shape the field is kept in because it is real grass. It really adds to the atmosphere that the palace already brings as a building itself.

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Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium. (2020, February 8). Retrieved March 2, 2020, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaylord_Family_Oklahoma_Memorial_Stadium