McBirney Mansion, Gothic Revival mansion in Tulsa, United States.
The McBirney Mansion is a four-level Gothic Revival house at 1414 South Galveston Avenue in Tulsa, built with a steel beam frame under hollow tile. Its exterior combines brick, stucco and stone, with copper gutters and stained glass windows. The first floor holds a 24-by-51-foot living room, a dining room, a music room and a slate-floored terrace facing the Arkansas River; seven bedrooms occupy the second floor and three dormer bedrooms the third. A separate two-level building contains a four-car garage and quarters.
James H. McBirney, co-founder of Tulsa's Bank of Commerce in 1904, had Kansas City architect John Long design this house, completed in 1928. The McBirney family kept it until 1975, when Roger and Donna Hardesty bought it. A law firm later converted it to offices, and it served as a bed and breakfast and event center before Tulsa attorney Gentner Drummond bought it in 2014 for $2.03 million as a family home. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 13, 1976.
The house takes its name from James H. McBirney, co-founder of Tulsa's Bank of Commerce in 1904, who lived there until 1976. The grounds hold the McBirney Spring, fed by an underground source that surfaced here before the Creek Nation settled near Tulsa after forced emigration. Washington Irving is said to have stopped at the spring in 1832 and written about it.
The mansion is a private residence at 1414 South Galveston Avenue, in the Riverside Historical District south of downtown Tulsa; it is not open for tours. The grounds slope down to the Arkansas River, with magnolias and cedars, a rock garden, a grotto and the McBirney Spring at the rear. The separate two-level building holds a four-car garage and quarters.
The spring below the grounds, now called McBirney Spring, surfaced here before the Creek Nation settled near Tulsa after forced emigration. Washington Irving is said to have stopped at it in 1832 and later wrote about it, and early cattlemen watered their stock there before fording the Arkansas River.
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