Districts in the National Register of Historic Places
Tracy Park Historic District
Significance
The Tracy Park Historic District is a small pocket of houses nearly surrounded by expressways and commercial development. It was originally part of the larger Ridgewood subdivision that once abutted the Central Business District and the prestigious Maple Ridge neighborhood to the south. Its strong physical and visual boundaries set it apart and have contributed to its neighborhood identity.
The neighborhood conveys a sense of historical and architectural cohesiveness as expressed in the eclectic style found in many 1920s developments. Clapboard, stucco, and brick were used by Tulsa builders in their adaptations of Georgian Revival, Dutch Colonial, Spanish, Cottage and Bungalow styles.
The deed restrictions controlling construction in the Ridgewood subdivision made it one of the first standardized subdivision developments in Tulsa. There are blocks of bungalows north of 12th Street, but south of 12th Street the deed restrictions required two-story housing. These restrictions helped to produce the neighborhood scale that unified Tracy Park’s eclectic architecture.