3411 Wildwood Court, Bartlesville, OK 74006

The Howard and Lucile Jones House — a 1960 Bruce Goff direct commission on Bartlesville's Wildwood Court, preserved substantially as drawn. Documented in the published canon, with Goff's archive held by the Art Institute of Chicago. Of roughly five hundred designs Goff completed, only a diminishing set of intact mature-period residences survives. A double-height octagonal great room is the heart of the house: a four-sided brick fireplace tower rises through the full section as the architectural spine, flanked by twin cantilevered staircases to upstairs bedrooms overlooking a sunken living pit. On the lower level, a continuous floor of irregular marble stone design — Goff's own composition — runs uninterrupted through the lower level and continues beyond the walls of the home in the large screened porch and adjacent carport, dissolving the boundary between inside and out. Clerestory glazing, exposed beams, wood-plank ceilings, and the angular window forms that define Goff's late...