The discovery of oil near Tulsa in the early-twentieth century ushered in decades of profound growth for the nascent city. Housing was still desperately needed when the Harvard Hills subdivision was platted in east Tulsa in 1929. The subdivision and neighboring plats were soon filled with modest homes in the popular Tudor and Colonial Revival styles before the Great Depression halted construction in the city. World War II and programs by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) revived building in the neighborhood with houses constructed in the Minimal Traditional style in the late 1930s and early 1940s.