Districts in the National Register of Historic Places

Carlton Place Historic District

Carlton Place

Classification
Carlton Place is a small residential district located less than a mile south of downtown Tulsa.
Boundaries
North: 14th Street
East: Alley between Carson and Cheyenne Avenues
South: 15th Street
West: Carthage Avenue
Subdivisions
Plat Date
Carlton Place Add.  9/13/09
Section Township Range
Sec. 12, T19N, R12E
» Representative Sample of Properties
Description

The Carlton Place Historic District is a small residential district which covers one-and-one-half blocks of the original three block Carlton Place Addition. The historic buildings in the east half of the original addition have been demolished. However, the remaining part of the neighborhood forms a cohesive group of predominately Prairie School and Bungalow/Craftsman style homes, built between 1910 and 1915.

The entrances to the addition from the north originally had large, red brick entry gates. Only one entry gate remains, located just off Fourteenth Street and Carson Avenue. The upper tablet on both sides of each marker has a centrally located “M” which likely stands for Magee, the name of the original developer of the neighborhood. The lower tablet reads “09,” representing the year the addition was platted. Extending off the side of the markers and over the sidewalk on both sides of the street are decorative, black, wrought iron arches, held aloft by shorter, slender, red brick columns.

The Carlton Place Historic District is significant as an excellent example of a small, upper middle class neighborhood that developed during an important period in Tulsa’s history. Tulsa’s development during the first half of the twentieth century relied on the nearby discovery of oil and the location of many oil-related industries and businesses in the community. Although Carlton Place does not contain any of the mansions of the oil barons, it is an excellent example of the close-in upper middle class neighborhoods that developed in response to the booming economic conditions in Tulsa during the 1910s.

Carlton Place was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on September 6, 2007 under National Register criteria A. Its NRIS number is 07000907.
» Complete Statement of Historic Significance
Period
Primary Residential Construction: 1909-1923
Representation in Existing Surveys
National Register of Historic Places — September 6, 2007
Intensive Level Survey — September 2005
Reconnaissance Survey — June 1978; June 1991; May 2004