James D. Watts Jr.

Tulsa World Scene Reporter

Stephen Pingry

Tulsa World Photojournalist

One thing that convinced Wildflower Cafe owner Heather Linville that moving her restaurant to a new location was a good idea was a set of doorknobs.

“Aren’t they cool?” Linville said as she pointed them out to visitors. Etched with sunflower designs, they are attached to doors that will open out onto what will become a patio dining area.

“Sunflowers are kind of my thing,” Linville said. “When I was being shown around here for the first time, and saw these — well, it was kind of like a sign that this was the place we needed to be.”

The place is the former First Christian Church, which occupies the downtown block between Ninth and 10th streets on Boulder Avenue, in a neighborhood that was once nic

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