listed the property in February<\/a> for $3.5 million, according to Zillow. <\/p>\nHe purchased the home from a Tyson Foods heiress for $2.5 million in 2021. The neglected home required extensive renovations, according to reports, including waterproofing, redoing the kitchen and replacing window glass.<\/p>\n
Price had his work cut out for him \u2014 Westhope boasts 5,200 panes of glass covering its exterior, and contains 10,400 square feet of interiors. The mansion also comes with a pool and guesthouse on its 1.5-acres. <\/p>\n
The light-filled living room. Sarah Strunk Photography<\/p>\n
Wright\u2019s shadowy hallways are designed to funnel passerby into bright social spaces. Sarah Strunk Photography<\/p>\n
A pink tiled bathroom. Sarah Strunk Photography<\/p>\n
There are 5,200 panes of glass throughout the home. Sarah Strunk Photography<\/p>\n
The five-bedroom, five-bath home was crafted for Richard Lloyd Jones, a newspaper publisher and Wright\u2019s cousin. Its geometric textile-block facade is an innovation of Wright\u2019s. Westhope represents the only example of the architect\u2019s eye-catching textile block style outside of California.<\/p>\n
According to Meryle Secrest\u2019s \u201cFrank Lloyd Wright: A Biography,\u201d Westhope fell victim to the most common pitfall of Wright designs \u2014 leaks. <\/p>\n
When Jones and his wife complained to his cousin, Wright reportedly replied: \u201cThis is what we get for leaving a work of art out in the rain.\u201d<\/p>\n
The pool. Sarah Strunk Photography<\/p>\n
The garden and entrance. Sarah Strunk Photography<\/p>\n
The buyers are a young couple, Mansion Global reported. Listing agents Peter Walter of Walter & Associates and Rob Allen at Sage Sotheby\u2019s International Realty handled the sale. <\/p>\n
Allen told the outlet that the couple has ties to Tulsa, and intents to carry on the home\u2019s restoration and preservation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of Frank Lloyd Wright\u2019s largest private homes \u2014 and one of only three in the Sooner State…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88,4225,20571,9600,1170,1349,25250],"class_list":["post-313408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-frank-lloyd-wright","tag-historic-buildings","tag-oklahoma","tag-real-estate","tag-residential-real-estate","tag-surreal-estate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}