Frank Lloyd Wright's Westhope still for sale, price reduced by nearly half
The house, located at 3704 S. Birmingham Ave., is still on the market — although now at a greatly reduced price. The architect Frank Lloyd Wright's midtown Tulsa residence, Westhope, designed by Wright, is still on the market at a greatly reduced price, with the current listing listing on Zillow indicating that the price has been reduced from almost $8 million to $4.5 million. The five-bedroom, five-bath, 10,405-square-foot home was designed for the home of Wright's cousin, Richard Lloyd Jones, the owner and publisher of the Tulsa Tribune newspaper. Completed in 1931, the house was budgeted at $40,000, or about $840,000 in today's dollars, and would cost more than $2 million if it were valued at $100,000 or over $2m today. It is considered one of the largest residences Wright ever built and is considered a transitional work between the "Prairie" style houses and the later "Usonian" style. Stuart Price, Stuart Price of the Price Family Properties real estate company, purchased WestHope in October 2021 and has since made significant improvements to preserve the home, including extensive updates to its landscaping, landscaping and lighting updates.
Published : a month ago by James D. Watts Jr. Tulsa World, james d. watts jr. in Lifestyle
When Westhope, the midtown Tulsa residence designed by legendary architect Frank Lloyd Wright, was offered for sale last year, it was priced at almost $8 million.
The house, located at 3704 S. Birmingham Ave., is still on the market — although now at a greatly reduced price.
The current listing of the house on the real estate website Zillow indicates the price was reduced March 19 for the five-bedroom, five-bath, 10,405-square-foot home and is now set at $4.5 million.
Wright designed the house to be the home of his cousin, Richard Lloyd Jones, the owner and publisher of the Tulsa Tribune newspaper. Completed in 1931, the house was budgeted at $40,000, or about $840,000 in today's dollars. It would ultimately cost $100,000, or more than $2 million today.
The house is one of the largest residences Wright ever built and is viewed as something of a transitional work between the "Prairie" style houses of Wright's early career and the later "Usonian" style. It is constructed of cement textile blocks and piers of square glass windows — 5,200 windows, to be precise.
Following Jones' death in 1963, the house was owned by Tulsa architect M. Murray McCune, who made some updates. In 1972, Westhope earned a spot on the National Register of Historic Places.
Stuart Price of the Price Family Properties real estate company purchased Westhope in October 2021.
The Price family, which owns the Philcade Building and First Place Tower downtown, took great efforts to preserve the home while also making it suitable for modern living. They set about re-waterproofing the home, making necessary updates to the landscaping, repainting the walls, patching cracked blocks, cleaning the glass and more.
“We’re incredibly lucky to be stewards of this masterpiece,” Price told the Tulsa World in 2022.
Wright built only two other structures in Oklahoma — the Harold Price Jr. House and the 19-story Price Tower, both finished in the 1950s in Bartlesville.
Peter M. Walter, of Tulsa's Walter & Associates Inc., is the official listing agent for Westhope. For more information: 918-688-1260.