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The McFarlin House was designed by the St. Louis, Missouri, architectural firm of Barnett, Haynes & Barnett in 1918 for the McFarlin family. It is a two-story, 8,500 sq. ft., brick, Italian Renaissance style, single dwelling located in the Stonebraker Heights Historic District at 1610 South Carson Avenue, Tulsa, Oklahoma. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[1][2]
The building has a clay tiled roof and a brick foundation. The wood windows are one-over-one, hung. The wood door is glazed paneled. The full-width, limestone porch has a flat roof supported by round, limestone, Classical columns. The porch railing and balcony above have balustraded railings. The balcony is a full-width stone portico over the entrance supported by six Doric columns. Other exterior features include two chimneys and a red-tiled hip roof. The east elevation features stone lintels and keystones above the ground floor windows and doors. Decorative details include triple windows and copper gutters.[3] [4]
Four ground floor rooms are paneled in walnut salvaged from a St. Louis bank. Fireplaces and basement floors are marble; ground floors oak parquet, except for ceramic tiled kitchen and breakfast room floors. Walls and ceiling of the breakfast room, designed by Briton Robert Adams, are faced with blue wedgewood pottery. Most of the original brass hardware, light fixtures and beveled glass remain, as does the hand painted French wallpaper in the upstairs hall. Two white tiled bathrooms with original fixtures, including pedestal basins and a ten nozzle shower, suggest a luxury uncommon to pre-1920 houses. Banks of fuses (over 1500 amps) power the built-in Frigidaire and beer cooler (both still operational) and once provided amperage to recharge the McFarlins' electric automobile. Also on the property is a two story garage built at the same time as the house and of the same construction, a second carriage house of unknown origin, and a large outdoor pool.[5]