1917 | 312 E. 19th Street, Tulsa Oklahoma | Built in 1917, this majestic two-story home with a full basement in the Maple Ridge Neighborhood is one of the first works in Tulsa identified as a Bruce Goff design. Goff had only begun working at Rush, Endacott and Rush, the Tulsa-based architecture firm a year earlier at the age of twelve. As a young draftsman, Goff’s work was compared by his older colleagues to that of Frank Lloyd Wright’s before Goff had even heard of the great master. Noticeably similar to homes designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in the Craftsman Style, it is built with Italian-made gray thin brick and has a distinctive low hipped roof. Notice the symmetrical front elevation and horizontal elongated double-hung windows with the centered entrance. The home was built for Percy Elm Elliot and Evelyn Claudine Vensel who had moved from Pennsylvania to Tulsa, where Mr. Elliot worked as a petroleum oil producer.