Bounded by S. Yorktown and S. Lewis Aves, E. 15th and E. 17th Sts., Tulsa, Oklahoma. County/parish: Tulsa.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places September 20, 1982. NRIS 82003702.
35 contributing buildings.
Gillette Historic District (GHD) is a residential area in the Midtown section of Tulsa, Oklahoma. It consists of the homes on Gillette Avenue and Yorktown Place, and is bounded by 15th Street on the north, the alley between Gillette Street and Lewis Avenue on the east, 17th Street on the south and the alley between Yorktown Place and Yorktown Avenue. It contains 31 single-family homes and 6 duplexes that were constructed between 1924 and 1941. The district (and Gillette Street) were named for James Max Gillette, a merchant, real estate entrepreneur and oilman who built his home in what is now the district in 1921.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/86512164