The Historic District of Gillette (GHD) is a residential area in the Midtown of Tulsa, Oklahoma. It consists of houses on Gillette Avenue and Yorktown Place, and is bordered by 15th Street to the north, the gulf between Gillette Street and Lewis Avenue to the east, 17th Street to the south and the alley between Yorktown Place and Yorktown Avenue. It contains 31 single-family houses and 6 couples built between 1924 and 1941. The district (and Gillette Street) was named for James Max Gillette, a trader, real estate entrepreneur and oilman who built his house in the now-present district in 1921.
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Tulsa's smallest historic district, GHD contains thirty-one family dwellings and six duplexes built between 1922 and 1941. This original structure forms the original integrity of the district. Five additional dwellings have been built in the last ten years. The most significant new building is the four single family residence just south of Gillette Mansion.
The buildings in this district are generally large, traditional, two-story buildings with many places along the boulevard-style South Yorktown Place. These houses were originally built for business executives. The most prominent building is Gillette Mansion, built by J. M. Gillette. This house seems to have formed a common character for the district. Many elements and details of the next building are similar to those in the Mansion.
John H. Hopping, who founded the Fourth National Bank in Tulsa, built a house in the southeast of Gillette's home in 1922. He named the street in front of his Norvesta Avenue home, converted to South Gillette Avenue when the neighborhood was annexed by Tulsa. The houses along South Gillette Avenue are generally smaller cottage styles and single-storey and two-story bungalows built on narrow grounds. They are designed to appeal to less affluent middle managers.
Architecturally, this district is highlighted by Gillette Mansion at 1521 South Yorktown Place, McGay's residence at 1551 South Yorktown Place, and the 1923 World Model Tulsa House at 1546 South Yorktown Place. While this is also historically most important, the rest of the district, especially residence along South Gillette Avenue, represents the transition from bungalow style to cottage style as the dominant form of residential design and construction.
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The Tulsa Preservation Society surveyed the neighborhood in 1978 and, after meeting with government preservation, determined that it qualified to be called the Historic District. The Gillette Historic District Association was formed in 1979 to coordinate environmental conservation activities and to help prepare nominations for the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). The Association chooses to have Tulsa City put the district under Preservation of Historic Preservation, to protect it from infill, dismantling, or inappropriate rehabilitation. This district was added to the Oklahoma Land Inventory on January 17, 1979.
Gillette District was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 20, 1982. The list is listed in the National List of Criteria C, and its NRIS number is 82003702.
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- Gillette Historic District
- National Register Historic Site of Gillette Historic Districts. The US Department of State; National Park Service. 1982. Retrieved on November 9, 2014.
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