If you ever have the privilege of owning a home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, it’s your responsibility to maintain it to the highest level that you can and after a two-year restoration the residence known as Westhope is looking remarkable. Located in Tulsa, Oklahoma, this Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece now arrives on the market with a price tag of $7,995,000 (AU$11,923,934).
Wright originally designed the five-bedroom home nearly a century ago in 1929 for his cousin, Richard Lloyd Jones, and today it stands as one of the finest examples of his architectural vision that remains in existence. Westhope is also one of the largest residences ever completed by Wright during his decades-long career, with his largest projects typically being buildings with a more public or commercially focused use case.
Its visual impression is dominated by Wright’s innovative “textile block” system that creates the facade of the building, which uses stacked concrete blocks for the walls and became something of an architectural signature for the designer. Outside of California, Westhope is the only property designed by Wright that features this construction method.
Located at 3704 South Birmingham Avenue, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Westhope covers nearly 10,000 square feet of floor space and arrives with sizable 1.5-acre grounds and a pool nestled next to the structure. Truly one of the most important Frank Lloyd Wright homes to arrive on the market in recent years, we can only hope that whoever becomes the next custodian of Westhope maintains it as meticulously as its current owners have.
