National Register of Historic Places

Marland-Paris House

Ponca City, Kay County, Oklahoma
Listed
September 27, 1976
Type
Building
Period
Industrial
Ref No.
76001565

About this property

The Marland Grand Home (also known as Marland's Grand Home, the Grand Home, and the Marland-Paris Home) is the first home built by Pennsylvania and Oklahoma oilman, businessman and politician E. W. (Ernest Whitworth) Marland (1874-1941), in Ponca City, (Kay County), Oklahoma and is considered a landmark in the community. The Grand Home was given its name because the home is on Grand Avenue in Ponca City, the community where Marland lived with his first and second wives and adopted children for 33 years from 1908 until his death in 1941 and the town where he founded his Marland Oil Company (which later merged with Continental Oil Company and later became known as Conoco) and also where he built his Ponca City oil refinery, which is still in operation today more than 100 years later. Marland's Grand Home is a 1910s period mansion built in the luxurious Italian Renaissance Revival architecture style. It was designed by architect Solomon Layton (1864-1943) and built in 1914, just before the First World War (1914/1917-1918). The Grand Home is owned today by the City of Ponca City and includes exhibit rooms for Miller Brothers 101 Ranch history, Native American archaeology, artifacts and art, and Daughters of the American Revolution exhibits. The Grand Home was also formerly known as the Ponca City Cultural Center Museum.

Location

1000 E. Grand
Ponca City, Kay County, Oklahoma
36.70306, -97.07164

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When was Marland-Paris House listed on the National Register?

Marland-Paris House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 27, 1976.

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Marland-Paris House is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.

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The period of significance for Marland-Paris House is recorded as the industrial era.

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