The Renaissance Neighborhood History Project

Terry and Chris Tudor Bungalow ~ 1300 sq feet Two Bedroom/One Bath with Basement Interviewed on August 4th, 2019 ****** Another gracious couple has opened their home to support the Renaissance Neighborhood History Project. Terry and Chris's home is a classic Tudor Bungalow, known and loved as "gingerbreads" in midtown Tulsa. Two bedroom, one bath, it is perfect for them and they knew it from the first moment they saw it in early 2016. It has been owned by only four or five families since 1929. One couple, Emma and Harvey Watson, owned the property from 1930 through 1973. The home has some unique original features and some tasteful updates. Perhaps one of the best features of this home is the integrity of the exterior brick and mortar. The buff colored brick and mortar has weathered the years extremely well which is a tribute to the original brick masons. The house has high cream color peaked gables, waterfall effect chimney and a recessed round top ...

My earliest memory of home is of a pink adobe stucco in Espanola, New Mexico.  We called it "The Pink House" - my memories are fleeting.  Going forward we lived in lots of places including a log cabin in the Jemez Moutains of New Mexico and a shack on the beach in Baja Calfornia.   I had a non-traditional upbringing, and didn't always attend school, but I was exposed to all sorts of cultures, races and languages.  I wouldn't change anything my life now, and yet when I was young of often longed for 'normal life'.  Living in a house, on a block was key in this 'normal life.'  I also wanted to go to school, eat white bread and get bangs. My grandmother was a realtor in the Western Chicago suburbs in the 1980's.  This was during a time when the real estate market was booming. She sold million dollar homes.  Every summer we would visit and she would sometimes she would take me to see some of the rambling houses she had for sale. I was so inter...