Tulsa's smallest historic district sits right here, the Gillette homes along Gillette Avenue and Yorktown Place. This is Tulsa's smallest historic district, made up of the homes along Gillette Avenue and Yorktown Place and bounded by 15th Street to the north, the alley between Gillette Street and Lewis Avenue to the east, 17th Street to the south, and the alley between Yorktown Place and Yorktown Avenue. Here you are surrounded by 31 single-family homes and 6 duplexes that were constructed between 1924 and 1941, buildings that established the original integrity of the neighborhood.
The district — and Gillette Street — take their name from James Max Gillette, a merchant, real estate entrepreneur and oilman who built his home here in 1921. Although five additional residences have been built within the past ten years, the scale remains intimate: generally large, traditional, two-story houses on generous lots lining the boulevard-style South Yorktown Place. Notice, too, the newer single-family homes directly south of the Gillette Mansion, among the most significant of the recent additions.
Picture Gillette's 1921 home anchoring this street, its generous lots still shaping the boulevard-style South Yorktown Place today.