The Westhope

Westhope, also known as the Richard Lloyd Jones House, is a Textile Block house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright that was built in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1929. Outside of California, this was Wright's sole Textile Blockhouse. Richard Lloyd Jones, the client, was Wright's cousin and the publisher of the Tulsa Tribune. This structure can be found at 3700 South Birmingham Avenue. On April 10, 1975, it was added to the National Register. It was classified as National Register Criteria C, g, and has the NRIS number 75001575.

The structure is made up of a series of vertical pillars with windows that are stacked columns, as well as a flat transparent glass cover that is fixed with cobbles and tar. The house is larger than other Wright houses, with 929 m2 of land, and unlike many buildings with similar surfaces, the only scale of its interior areas allows a suitable setting for either one person or several. The ground floor is separated into two open floors in the Prairie School style, with the public sector on the ground floor and the private sector on the first. It features a four-car garage, a garden room, a workshop, a pool, a fountain, a pond, gardens, four courtyards, and a covered entry.

Westhope is better known to those who lived there as "The Big Residence," or the Richard Lloyd Jones house to those who did not. Westhope was commissioned before the Great Crash and completed during the Great Depression, at a tough period in Wright's career and an even more turbulent period for American society.

Address: 3700 S. Birmingham Tulsa, Oklahoma
Construction started: in 1929
Architectural style: Textile Block