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 ...

The Renaissance Neighborhood History project originally set out to learn about the homes built here.  We have a range of classic bungalows, adorable gingerbread brick cottages and some magnificent Tudors and four squares.  However, a long the way I found that our neighborhood was the original land allotment two Muscogee woman. Sisters.   I then set out to learn as much as I could about both of them. One question I had was, did they live on their land?   If so where?    This post is about  one of them.   Her name is Addie Perryman. Her land made up the West side our neighborhood.  You can read about her sister, Mary Jane, here .  Addie Perryman About 1899, Age 14 In my search to learn about Addie and her land I discovered bits and pieces about her life.   Newspaper articles, documents tucked into property abstracts and a few surviving court records tell of tragedies, trauma and trials.   Trials as in ordeals but also literal cov...

Penny and Jeremy Tudor Revival ~3,700 square feet,  3 bedroom/1 bath/2 living space three car garage and apartment full basement ***** Penny and her son Jeremy bought the home in 2008.  They didn't know much about the history of the home and asked me to see what I might be able to find. Let’s take a quick tour: The front door opens to a formal living room with a fireplace and leaded glass windows with arches. To the left is a space that was once a screened patio but has been enclosed for an extra room. A dining room, bedroom, large bathroom, open kitchen and den make up the remainder of the first floor. Stairs in the kitchen descend into the full basement where huge steel beams support the house. Jeremy had heard the builder was in the steel industry. The second-floor space is primarily two garret rooms with built-in closets, one of which has a small ornate window inside. Besides these two bedrooms, there are several trimmed and finished doors. The doo...