Villa Philbrook, 2727 South Rockford Road, Tulsa (HALS OK-4)

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Villa Philbrook, built during the roaring was the home of Waite and Genevieve Phillips. Waite, an Oklahoma oilman and cofounder of the Phillips Petroleum Company, and Genevieve left their estate along with an endowment for maintaining it to the City of Tulsa in with the stipulation that the site become an art museum. Today, the estate is an important cultural and historical Tulsa landmark that represents the opulence and flamboyance that characterized the and the wealth created in Oklahoma by oil during the era. History: Situated on a 23 acre site, the mansion, designed by Edward Buehler Delk of Kansas City, Missouri, is surrounded by beautifully landscaped gardens.

The site was designed by the landscape architecture firm Hare and Hare out of Kansas City, Missouri, and the planting design was implemented by Philip Thomas, a local landscape contractor. A product of the Eclectic Period, the 72-room mansion and the immediate rear garden with its water feature cascade is in the Italian Renaissance Style, while the overall site is in the Romantic Naturalistic Style. The home and surrounding gardens were built from to and cost, at the time of construction, The water feature in the garden off the rear terrace was modeled after a similar cascades at Villa Lante, a famous Italian estate near Rome, Italy designed by Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola in The estate includes a combination of formal and natural gardens that exhibit native Oklahoma plant species.

In addition, fountains, cascades, pools, stone benches, and a variety of pathways and bridges dot the landscape. In the Tulsa-based landscape architecture firm Howell & Vancuren generated plans for the renovation of the gardens designed by Hare and Hare and completed the unfinished garden at the summer house at a cost of approximately $7 million. The renovation project was completed in

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(Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, Oklahoma Historical Society).

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Steve Eilers, January 27, West Stillwater, OK steve.eilers@okstate.edu Dr. Charles Leider Professor and Director of the Landscape Architecture Program VILLA PHILBROOK (PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART; WAITE PHILLIPS MANSION) HALS NO. OK-4 PAGE 3 Horticulture and Landscape Architecture Department 360 AG Hall Stillwater, OK Office: charles.leiderfalokstate.edu Back of House (National Register Properties in Oklahoma website: accessed March 20, VILLA PHILBROOK (PHILBROOK MUSEUM OF ART; WAITE PHILLIPS MANSION) HALS NO. OK-4 PAGE 4 A .( . ,iiIV:" v . -if. 7. *^ w" vKu la* iSHT. ' - =-- . % ^ " - * * ! * xumr,,.,..^ *^ ^<i^Y*^ .- ^ ,s ^ --lHhp^^XMHiWi( _% -HQQuQWiff ?.. # Formal Gardens (Steve Eilers,