Districts in the National Register of Historic Places
Riverside Historic District
Representative Sample of Properties
- 1. WRIGHT HOUSE (24 East 24th Street) 1930
This home is a Tudor Revival, sits on two lots and has strong Gothic accents. It has a red brick facade accentuated by cut limestone. There is a large porte-cochere with Gothic style arches. The son of a farmer, Clarence H. Wright rose from poverty to become a successful dry goods and ladies ready-to-wear merchant. He later led Sunray Oil Company in a series of mergers, including the 1955 Mid-Continent Petroleum merger.- 2. HURLEY HOUSE (2700 South Boston Avenue) 1920
This home is a Tudor Revival, two and a half story cream stucco house overlooking the Arkansas River. The yard has an iron fence with columns. The entrance has a detached guard house and the drive leads up to a wide porte-cochere. The Hurleys, who originally platted the Riverside Drive Addition, lived in the house from 1920 to 1929. Later, John Duncan Forsyth designed an addition on this mansion that included a library with a bedroom suite above.- 3. MAYO HOUSE (2301 South Boston Avenue) 1925
This home is a Dutch Colonial and has a stone exterior with a slate gambrel roof. It has three large dormer windows and limestone columns flanking the entry. The front door is a heavy paneled door with side lights and glass transoms. There is a large porte-cochere and detached garage with carriage doors. In 1903, the Mayo brothers formed a partnership and opened a furniture store in the 200 block of South Main. They later financed some of Tulsa’s finest buildings including: a five-story office building constructed at Fifth and Main in 1910, the Petroleum Building constructed at Boulder and Fifth in 1920, and a hotel constructed at Fifth and Cheyenne in 1925 that was appropriately named the Mayo Hotel.- 4. RANNEY HOUSE (2703 Riverside Drive) 1924
This home is a Dutch Colonial. The wall material and the chimney are made of stone. It has a gambrel roof. Clark Ranney was vice president of exploration for the C.J. Wrightsman Oil Corporation. The Ranneys first arrived in Tulsa in 1923. Ranney later started the Ranney-Wilson Rig Building Company. The structure features a replica of a log cabin in the basement.- 5. BLAIR HOUSE (2800 South Boston Avenue) 1959
Waite Phillips hired B.B. Blair to work on a large ranch. A portion of the ranch was later to become the site of the Southern Hills Country Club. Blair earned the position of chief landsman in Waite Phillips Oil Company. Blair later started a joint venture in the oil business and purchased Mr. Phillip’s oil interests.Blair purchased the site of the Blair Mansion in 1939, which is on the south end of the Riverside Historic District. This land was a working farm into the late 1960s. The Blairs started building the Blair Mansion in 1959. John Duncan Forsyth designed the mansion to duplicate Jefferson Davis’s home in Biloxi, Mississippi. It has an open colonnaded porch the full width of the front of the home. The house overlooks the Arkansas River.