The Simpson – Little – Colston Building (I will refer to it as the Colston Building) is a six story “skyscraper” in my hometown, Ardmore, OK. The Colston Building was built in 1918 as an office building by Roy M. Johnson and Burton A. Simpson and was later purchased by the Colston Corporation in 1975. The Colston building remains an office building with offices for lease to local professionals.

My mother was one such professional who officed out of the Colston Building. She is an accountant and after she got her MBA she had built up a good number of clients and needed a space outside of her home office. So, an office on the 5th floor of the Colston building became the home of Nichols Accounting Service.

I spent a lot of time running around the building when I was younger and I ate many meals at the Main Street Cafe on the first floor. I haven’t been back in many years, but I still have fond memories of the time I spent there with my mom.