John Duncan Forsyth Residence
2927 South Birmingham Place
Built: 1937
GPS
N 36 07.243
W 95 57.141
This house was designed by John Duncan Forsyth. It is a
two-story, flat roofed house containing a massing of plain, unbroken surfaces in
horizontal bands. A low concrete landscaping wall across the front of the
property seems to extend, as an integral part of the house, from the garage and
from the south wing. Painted white with teal blue detailing, the main block of
the house rises like a ship’s deck from the landscape with one curved wall inset
with a corner glass block window. The front projecting garage wall adjoins the
recessed entry canopy. This strong horizontal feature is repeated on the second
level by a cantilevered canopy over the deck.
the short description was prepared by the Tulsa Preservation Commission
