Westhope (Richard Lloyd Jones House)

Westhope is one of three buildings in Oklahoma that were designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, America’s most famous architect.

Wisconsin newspaperman Richard Lloyd Jones asked his first cousin Frank Lloyd Wright to build him a residence when Wright was struggling to get commissions.

Commissioned before the Great Crash and finished during the Great Depression, Westhope was built at a difficult time in Wright’s career amid an even more tumultuous time for American society.

Westhope is made with alternating piers of square glass windows and cement “textile” blocks. A limited number of concrete block homes were done in between Wright’s better-known Prairie and Usonian houses.

This is one of the largest residences Wright ever built and its interior is among the most elusive for photographers.

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