Boyd House, National Register of Historic Places residential building in Oklahoma, United States.
Boyd House is a residential building in Oklahoma featuring neoclassical architecture with symmetrical facades and distinctive columns. The home displays balanced proportions and decorative details typical of this architectural style, with ornament work framing its main entrance.
David Ross Boyd, the university's first president, built the house in 1906 for about $7,000. After he was forced out in 1908, the university leased it until acquiring it in a 1914 property swap. President Stratton D. Brooks remodeled it between 1915 and 1922 into its Neoclassical Revival form, paying for the four Ionic columns himself. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
The house had no formal name for decades; it was called "The President's House", "The White House", or after its occupant, such as "The Bizzell House". It was officially named Boyd House in 1982, and since November 1996 it has again served as the president's residence after a $2 million privately funded renovation.
Boyd House is a private residence for the university president, so interior access is not open to the public; the Neoclassical Revival facade and its four Ionic columns can be seen from the street. The building served as the university's visitor center from 1979 to 1994, before reopening as the presidential home in November 1996.
The four Ionic columns at the entrance were paid for out of his own pocket by Stratton D. Brooks, the university's third president, during his 1915–1922 remodeling. The house also hosted Sir Alexander Fleming, John Philip Sousa, William Howard Taft, Harry S. Truman and Niels Bohr.
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