McClung House
708 S. Main St., Sapulpa, OKThe McClung House's significance lies in its architectural integrity as well as its association with Lee H. McClung who was important in the area's major industry, oil production.
The house was designed in 1909 by Lawler and Inman, Sapulpa, Oklahoma architects. It is a competently designed and executed.cottage. An architect designed house in the small town of Sapulpa was unique in 1909, but the house's primary architectural significance lies in the fact that the McClung family occupied it continuously for seventy years and kept the interior and exterior intact for those seven decades. It is one of the few houses in eastern Oklahoma that retains so much of its original interior.
The house was designed for Lee H. McClung, a Sapulpa businessman. He operated for thirty years, individually, or with partners, a number of oil and gas businesses in Oklahoma. He was involved in both the drilling and the production of Oklahoma's bonanza field, Glen Pool, and other early fields. McClung was also an early president of a major Sapulpa business, the Liberty Glass Plant. He served as a Sapulpa City Commissioner and school board member during his active business and industrial career.
The new owners have begun a sensitive interior and exterior rehabilitation following the Standards for Rehabilitation and will convert the house to office use. The McClung house is the first historic property to be rehabilitated in Sapulpa and the first to be nominated to the National Register.
Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
The National Register of Historic Places is the official list of the Nation’s historic places worthy of preservation. Authorized by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, the National Park Service’s National Register of Historic Places is part of a national program to coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify, evaluate, and protect America’s historic and archeological resources.