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Year Event
1908 Title to 10 acres of land is acquired
March 28. The building of the new home in the extreme northwest comer of this
property is announced.
1909 The Neo-Classical
style home is completed. Walter Everman is the architect. Family moves from their former
residence located on the SW comer of 10th and Johnstone.
1917 The first major renovation is
commissioned. The southwest wing is added. It included the sunroom and the
children's suite.
1930 A $500,000 major renovation is begun.
Edward Buehler Delk is the architect. (Delk was a prominent architect who also
helped design Country Club Plaza in Kansas City. ) Delk designed Villa Philbrook in Tulsa,
Villa Philmonte in New
Mexico, the H.V. Foster Mansion at what is now Oklahoma Wesleyan
University, Bartlesville, Oklahoma, and Bartlesville's original Hillcrest
Country Club.
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Year Event
1931 The remodel is completed. The
southeast wing has been extended 12 feet to the south and three stories in height. Significant
changes have been made to the home, including separate bedrooms for Frank and
Jane, extensions of the library, and addition of the butler's room on the third
floor.
1938 Air conditioning is installed. The
house was one of the first in Oklahoma to be air conditioned.
1946 The greenhouse is erected, a birthday
gift to Jane from Frank.
1947 The elevator is installed, reportedly
Jane's Christmas gift to Frank. It was described as a major engineering feat.
Cost $31,000 - $35,000.
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Year Event
1948 Elizabeth "Betty" Irwin, granddaughter
of Frank and Jane Phillips, inherits the house upon the death of Jane Phillips,
(ownership of the house had always been in Jane's name) subsequently moving in
and caring for Frank Phillips during the last two years of his life.
1973 Betty and Henry Irwin deed the
Phillips home and contents to the Oklahoma Historical Society.
1997 Garage renovated with a Grant from the
Lyon Foundation for an Interpretative Center, Museum Shop, collection storage,
and educational rooms.
2000 Marcus C. Low, Jr. family restored the
summer sleeping porch off Jane's bedroom.
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