Jesse D. Davis Residence
3231 South Utica Avenue
Built: 1936
GPS
N 36 06.910
W 95 58.029
This residence was designed by Frances Davis. Constructed of
brick and wood on concrete, its prominent glass bay is suggestive of the ship
imagery popular in Streamline residences. Corner windows and horizontal ribbon
windows emphasize the streamlining, and a porthole window carries out the ship
motif. The most unusual element of the house is a three-story structural column
of hollow fluted wood, extending from the basement through the second floor. It
is 2 feet in diameter, 26 feet high, and was the largest of its kind in Oklahoma
when built. It is the central feature in the house and is enclosed by a spiral
staircase.
the short description was prepared by the Tulsa Preservation Commission
