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| Location | 3700 S. Birmingham Tulsa, Oklahoma |
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| Coordinates | 36°6′35″N95°57′14″W / 36.10972°N 95.95389°W |
| Built | 1929 |
| Architect | Frank Lloyd Wright |
| Architectural style | Textile Block |
| NRHP reference No. | 75001575 [1] |
| Added to NRHP | April 10, 1975 |
Westhope, also known as the Richard Lloyd Jones House, is a Frank Lloyd Wright designed Textile Block home that was constructed in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1929. This was Wright's only Textile Block house outside of California. [2] [ verification needed ] The client, Richard Lloyd Jones, was Wright's cousin and the publisher of the Tulsa Tribune .
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This building is located at 3704 South Birmingham Avenue. [3] The home has five bedrooms and five baths. [3] It encompasses 10,405 square feet on 1.5 acres. [3] Besides the textile blocks stacked in vertical columns, the home features 5,200 panes of glass covering almost half the exterior of the structure. [3] [4] It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places listings in Tulsa County, Oklahoma on April 10, 1975 under National Register Criteria C, g, with an NRIS number of 75001575. [5]
Westhope is the location of a frequently-quoted anecdote about Wright: Richard Lloyd Jones called Wright in the middle of a storm to complain that the roof was leaking on his desk, and Wright replied, "Richard, why don't you move your desk?" [6] [7] But Jones’ wife Georgia had an equally memorable perspective regarding the leaking structure: she said, “This is what we get for leaving a work of art out in the rain.” [8]
Jones paid over $100,000 for construction, even though the original budget was $30,000. [3] After Jones' death in 1963, his widow traded houses with M. Murray McCune, a Tulsa architect who updated Westhope in 1965. [4] By mid-2017, the owner of the house was Barbara Tyson, a member of the family that founded Tyson Foods Inc. [8] The structure was purchased by Stuart Price in October 2021, who made extensive renovations including re-waterproofing and tuckpointing cracked blocks. [3] The house was placed for sale in 2023. [9]
The house is one of three Wright structures in Oklahoma, the others being the Harold Price Jr. House and the Price Tower in Bartlesville. [3]
