Bungalow and Craftsman porches define Yorktown, a historic district in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The neighborhood you see is neatly framed by 16th and 17th Streets on the north, 20th Street on the south, Lewis Avenue on the east, and Victor/Wheeling Avenues on the west. You are in one of 19 blocks of single‑family residences, a patchwork of eight separate additions that never settled into a single pattern of development.
Significant construction here began in 1921, and that era left a clear legacy: the Bungalow/Craftsman style makes up 69 percent of the houses you can see. Tudor Revival is the second most prevalent style, gaining popularity in the late 1920s, and together those two traditions account for ninety percent of Yorktown residences. The area defined as the Yorktown District contained 449 properties, and a 2000 survey found that 90.6 percent of them could be classed as contributing to the district.
Most of the others were judged noncontributing because of significant alterations or because they were not yet old enough to meet the 50‑year age requirement for NRHP listing. Picture the Bungalow and Craftsman rooflines that still dominate here, a legacy of the building boom that began in 1921.