Tulsa Preservation Commission

Districts in the National Register of Historic Places

Buena Vista Park Historic District

Description

The Buena Vista Park Historic District is a small residential district which encompasses portions of three blocks of the original Buena Vista Park Addition platted in 1908 by Charles A. Sanderson.

Overall, the Buena Vista Park Historic District represents a noteworthy collection of residential architecture in Tulsa developed between 1913 and 1933. The district maintains a high degree of integrity and ably reflects the trends in single and multiple family dwellings during the period. Dominated by the Colonial Revival and Prairie School styles, the district also contains good examples of the Bungalow/Craftsman style, as well as an outstanding, upper class Italian Renaissance style home.

Initiating a trend along the riverfront portion of this area of Tulsa, three brick apartment buildings were constructed along Riverside Drive and Nineteenth Street between 1923 and 1924. In addition to having ready access to downtown Tulsa, this locale also afforded tenants with a striking view of the Arkansas River. These apartments are also notable as relatively early examples of multiple family dwellings designed in the popular residential styles of the day.

Buena Vista Park was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on September 6, 2007 under National Register criteria C. Its NRIS number is 07000919.

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Period

Primary Residential Construction: 1913-1933

Representation in Existing Surveys

National Register of Historic Places — September 6, 2007

Intensive Level Survey — September 2005

Reconnaissance Survey — June 1978; June 1991; May 2004