Westhope, the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home at 37th Street and South Birmingham Avenue, is pictured on Monday in Tulsa.
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Westhope, the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home at 37th Street and South Birmingham Avenue, was built in 1929.
Mike Simons, Tulsa World
Westhope, a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home at 37th Street and South Birmingham Avenue in Tulsa, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
Local commercial real estate developer Stuart Price recently bought the unique block and glass home, 3704 S. Birmingham Ave., from Bat, LLC, an Arkansas limited liability company, for $2.5 million, Tulsa County land records show.
Attempts to reach Bat, LLC, Manager Harry “Chuck” Erwin III were not immediately successful. A recent owner of the residence was Barbara Tyson, a member of the family that founded Tyson Foods Inc. in Springdale, Arkansas.
Price, through a text message, declined to comment.
He is chair of Price Family Properties, which has used a work-live-play philosophy to help revitalize the commercial and multifamily properties it owns downtown.
PFP, according to the company website, manages more than 2 million square feet of commercial office space, most of it acquired several years ago from San Francisco inventor and philanthropist Maurice Kanbar.
The two-story house has 10,405 livable square feet and five-plus bathrooms, according to county property records.
Following Jones’ death in 1963, his family sold the home to architect M. Murray McCune, who succeeded in having the property listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. He also updated the kitchen and installed air conditioning, concealing the vents with grills made using Wright’s original patterns.
Westhope is among three Wright-designed buildings in Oklahoma. The others are Price Tower and the Harold Price Jr. house, both in Bartlesville.
World staff writer Curtis Killman contributed to this story.
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Westhope, a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home at 37th Street and South Birmingham Avenue in Tulsa, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.