Westhope

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] The client, Richard Lloyd Jones, was Wright's cousin and the publisher of the Tulsa Tribune.

For other places with the same name, see Westhope (disambiguation).
Westhope
Westhope
Location3700 S. Birmingham Tulsa, Oklahoma
Coordinates36°6′35″N 95°57′14″W
Built1929
ArchitectFrank Lloyd Wright
Architectural styleTextile Block
NRHP reference No.75001575[1]
Added to NRHPApril 10, 1975

This building is located at 3700 South Birmingham Avenue. It was listed in the National Register on April 10, 1975. It was listed under National Register Criteria C, g, and its NRIS number is 75001575.[3]

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?"[4][5] 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.”[6]

As of mid-2017, the owner of the house was Barbara Tyson, a member of the family that founded Tyson Foods Inc.[6]

References
  1. "National Register of Historical Places - Oklahoma - Tulsa County". National Park Service.
  2. "Architecture". Price Tower Arts Center. Retrieved January 18, 2021.
  3. "Tulsa Landmarks and Famous Places - Westhope."
  4. Thomas S. Hines, "The Wright Stuff", New York Times, September 16, 2009.
  5. Meryle Secrest, Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography (reprint ed., University of Chicago Press, 1998), ISBN 978-0-226-74414-8, pp. 372. (excerpt available at Google Books).
  6. "Throwback Tulsa: A house in Tulsa may have roots in Frank Lloyd Wright's personal tragedy". Debbie Jackson and Hilary Pittman, Tulsa World, July 20, 2017. Retrieved January 16, 2021.
  • Storrer, William Allin. The Frank Lloyd Wright Companion. University Of Chicago Press, 2006, ISBN 0-226-77621-2 (S.227)


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