Westhope, also known as the Richard Lloyd Jones House, is a

Frank Lloyd Wright Frank Lloyd Wright Sr. (June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was an American architect, designer, writer, and educator. He designed List of Frank Lloyd Wright works, more than 1,000 structures over a creative period of 70 years. Wright played a key ...

designed Textile Block home that was constructed in

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in 1929. The client, Richard Lloyd Jones, was Wright's cousin and the publisher of the '' Tulsa Tribune''. This building is located at 3704 South Birmingham Avenue. The home has five bedrooms and five baths. It encompasses 10,405 square feet on 1.5 acres. Besides the textile blocks stacked in vertical columns, the home features 5,200 panes of glass covering almost half the exterior of the structure. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places listings in Tulsa County, Oklahoma on April 10, 1975 under National Register Criteria C, g, with an NRIS number of 75001575. 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?" 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.” Jones paid over $100,000 for construction, even though the original budget was $30,000. After Jones' death in 1963, his widow traded houses with M. Murray McCune, a Tulsa architect who updated Westhope in 1965. By mid-2017, the owner of the house was Barbara Tyson, a member of the family that founded Tyson Foods Inc. The structure was purchased by Stuart Price in October 2021, who made extensive renovations including re-waterproofing and tuckpointing cracked blocks. The house was placed for sale in 2023. The house is one of three Wright structures in Oklahoma, the others being the Harold Price Jr. House and the Price Tower in

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