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Westhope, also known as the Richard Lloyd Jones House, is a house at 3704 South Birmingham Avenue in the Midtown neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, it was completed in 1931 for his cousin Richard Lloyd Jones, the publisher of the Tulsa Tribune. It is one of three buildings in Oklahoma that Wright designed, and it has sometimes been cited as the only one of Wright's textile-block houses outside California. The structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Westhope is a two-story structure on a flat prairie site covering about 2 acres (0.81 ha). The estate includes a guesthouse, a garage, lawns, a pool, and a pond. Westhope's textile blocks are arranged in vertical piers, which are fastened together by metal rebar and lack decorations. The textile block piers alternate with vertical glass bays with 5,200 panes of glass covering almost half the exterior of the structure. The home is variously cited as having five or six bedrooms and is one of Wright's largest house designs. The spaces are arranged in an open plan, intersecting at 90-degree angles, and are decorated with textile blocks. The house was controversial when it was completed, with some observers comparing it to a glass house or a penitentiary. Wright informally discussed plans for the house with the Joneses during 1928, and Jones sent him a list of specifications later that year. After Wright revised the plans, Jones hired Paul Mueller as the Jones House's general contractor, and construction began in 1930. The building exceeded its original construction budget, with a final cost of $100,000. Jones died at his house in 1963, and his widow sold it to the local architect M. Murray McCune, who renovated it. Westhope was subsequently sold to the Nelson family in 1982, the Holden family in the late 1980s, and the Tyson family in 1993. After falling into disrepair, the house was sold in 2021 to the investor Stuart Price, who renovated the house before reselling it in 2025.
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When was Westhope listed on the National Register?
Westhope was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 9, 1975.
What type of historic resource is Westhope?
Westhope is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.
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The period of significance for Westhope is recorded as the industrial era, specifically around 1931.
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