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Photo, Print, Drawing Villa Philbrook, 2727 South Rockford Road, Tulsa, Tulsa County, OK Philbrook Museum of Art

[ Drawings from Survey HABS OK-55  ]

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[ Data Pages from Survey HABS OK-55  ]

About this Item

Title

  • Villa Philbrook, 2727 South Rockford Road, Tulsa, Tulsa County, OK

Other Title

  • Philbrook Museum of Art

Names

  • Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
  • Phillips, Waite
  • Phillips, Genevieve Elliott
  • Delk, Edward Buehler
  • Hare, Herbert
  • Long Construction Company
  • Lohman, Henry
  • Thomas, Phillip
  • Fox, C. Burton
  • Thomas Landscape & Nursery
  • Tulsa Museum of Art
  • Philbrook Museum of Art
  • Phillips Petroleum Company
  • Leider, Charles L., faculty sponsor
  • Jones, Nigel R., faculty sponsor
  • Pittmen, Hunter, field team
  • Oklahoma State University, Landscape Architecture Program, sponsor
  • U.S. National Park Service (NPS), Rocky Mountain Regional Office, sponsor
  • Cary, Brian, transmitter
  • Collins, Charlene, delineator
  • Clayton, Kyle, delineator
  • Harris, Michael A., delineator
  • Hodges, Todd, delineator
  • Howland, David, delineator
  • Hundley, Scott, delineator
  • Kennedy, Dennis, delineator
  • Leider, Stephen, delineator
  • Sheck, Leo, delineator
  • Schwegman, Michael, delineator
  • Suiter, Jeffrey, delineator

Created / Published

  • Documentation compiled after 1933

Headings

  • -  villas
  • -  galleries & museums
  • -  petroleum industry
  • -  domestic life
  • -  mansions
  • -  Oklahoma--Tulsa County--Tulsa

Notes

  • -  For additional documentation, see also HALS OK-4
  • -  1993 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Honorable Mention
  • -  Significance: The 1920s was a flamboyant period in Oklahoma, as well as elsewhere in the U.S. It was a time when wealthy oilmen built lavish estates. Waite Phillips was one of these men. Born in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, he settled in Tulsa in 1918 and established the Phillips Petroleum Company. Phillips purchased 64 acres for the Philbrook Estate in several parcels between 1921 and 1926. Phillips divided the land into 2 portions: 23 acres for Villa Philbrook and 41 acres for Rockbridge Park, a residential development which bordered the Villa on the north, east, and south. In 1926 Phillips commissioned Edward B. Delk, architect, and Herbert Hare, landscape architect, both of Kansas City, as designers for the Philbrook estate. The villa and the surrounding gardens were designed in the Italian Renaissance Style, influenced by Villa Lante, while the rest of the site was reserved for a more organic design. Delk designed the villa and the architectural elements of the gardens, including the south terrace, the formal garden, and the tempietto. Hare was responsible for the overall site design and circulation system, as well as the formal garden and the rock garden. The construction team consisted of the Long Construction Company of Kansas City, the general contractor was Henry Lohman of Tulsa, and the landscape contractor was Phillip Thomas and C. Burton Fox, superintendent of the Thomas Landscape & Nursery of Tulsa. The final cost of the villa was $1,190,245, which included the cost of the land at $31,176, and landscaping for $128,694. The Phillips resided in this 72 room villa from the date of its completion in 1927 until 1938, when they donated the property to the Tulsa Museum of Art.
  • -  Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N112
  • -  Survey number: HABS OK-55
  • -  Building/structure dates: 1926-1927 Initial Construction
  • -  Building/structure dates: 1933 Subsequent Work
  • -  Building/structure dates: 1990 Subsequent Work
  • -  National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 78002274

Medium

  • Measured Drawing(s): 13

Call Number/Physical Location

  • HABS OKLA,72-TULSA,1-

Source Collection

  • Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)

Repository

Control Number

  • ok0062

Rights Advisory

Online Format

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  • pdf

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Citations are generated automatically from bibliographic data as a convenience, and may not be complete or accurate.

Chicago citation style:

Historic American Buildings Survey, Creator, Waite Phillips, Genevieve Elliott Phillips, Edward Buehler Delk, Herbert Hare, Long Construction Company, Henry Lohman, et al. Villa Philbrook,South Rockford Road, Tulsa, Tulsa County, OK. Tulsa County Oklahoma Tulsa, 1933. translateds by Cary, Brianmitter Documentation Compiled After. Photograph. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/ok0062/.

APA citation style:

Historic American Buildings Survey, C., Phillips, W., Phillips, G. E., Delk, E. B., Hare, H., Long Construction Company [...] Suiter, J. (1933) Villa Philbrook,South Rockford Road, Tulsa, Tulsa County, OK. Tulsa County Oklahoma Tulsa, 1933. Cary, B., trans Documentation Compiled After. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/ok0062/.

MLA citation style:

Historic American Buildings Survey, Creator, et al. Villa Philbrook,South Rockford Road, Tulsa, Tulsa County, OK. trans by Cary, Brianmitter Documentation Compiled After. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/ok0062/>.