Districts in the National Register of Historic Places
Buena Vista Park Historic District
Significance
The Buena Vista Park Historic District is a small residential district located just over a mile south of downtown Tulsa. The district encompasses portions of three blocks of the Buena Vista Park Addition. Platted in 1908 by Charles A. Sanderson, the addition originally consisted of seven irregular shaped blocks. The shape of the blocks reflect the convergence of the grid pattern of land development with the reality of the Arkansas River.
As originally platted, South Carson Avenue was called Myrtle Avenue, West 18th Street was Hickory Avenue and West 19th Street was May Avenue. By 1915, Myrtle and Hickory avenues had been renamed to their current names. West 19th Street, however, was not named according to the 1915 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map. Within two years, as recorded on the Aaronson’s Subdivision plat, May Avenue had become West 19th Street.
Although conceived in the early boom days of the first decade of the twentieth century, building activity in the addition was slow until the late teens and early 1920s. The single family homes constructed along South Cheyenne and Carson avenues in this area form an excellent collection of houses built for the upper middle and upper class during this time. Initiating a trend that would come to dominate along the river front portion of this area of Tulsa, are the three brick apartment buildings constructed off of Riverside Drive and Nineteenth Street between 1923 and 1924. Together, this buildings form a small, distinct pocket of period architecture which maintains a high degree of integrity.
There are a total of thirty resources in the Buena Vista Park Historic District. All of these resources are residential in nature. Notably, one of these, the James Alexander Veasey House at 1802 South Cheyenne Avenue, was individually listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1989 for its architectural significance as a local landmark example of the Colonial Revival style.