This home was built in 1922 by Mack B. Blake. Mack was born in 1874 in Dallas, Texas, where his father built the town's first four-story building for his dry goods business. Following in his father's footsteps, Mack moved to Mangum, Oklahoma Territory, in 1904and opened his own store. With the help of his wife, Katherine Talbott, they prospered.

In 1910, the year after their daughter Eleanor was born, the Blakes formed a partnership with two first cousins to create the Baker, Hannah, and Blake Wholesale Dry Goods Company. As president, Blake moved to Oklahoma City, where gross sales went from $450,000 in 1910 to $2.5 million in 1918. They also helped organize Liberty National Bank.

In 1915 Mack and Katherine purchased the lots on 17th Street across the street from the Winans home. Seven years later, after a brief move to Lawton where Mack served as president to rescue a failing bank, they hired an architect, took out a building permit for $18,000, and started work on a new home. The most unusual feature was the arch over the entryway, with two peacocks facing each other.

In 1946 Mack Blake died, and Katherine moved to the Aberdeen Apartments. The home remained in the family when Eleanor and her husband, John Kirkpatrick, and their daughter, Joan, moved in. Eleanor and John actually had their wedding ceremony in the home on June20, 1932. Their daughter, Joan, was born August 7, 1933. They remained in the home until 1954.

John, a native of Oklahoma City, had attended the U.S. Naval Academy and Harvard Graduate School of Business. During World War Il he served on several warships and was executive officer aboard the U.S.S. Oklahoma City. For his service, he received the Bronze Star and eventually rose to Rear Admiral. Eleanor, who had lived in the home most of her life, had attended Miss Madeira's School for Women in Washington, D.C., Mile. Fontaine's School for Women in Cannes, France, and the University of Oklahoma.

John and Eleanor were involved in a variety of enterprises from oil to banking.

They started the Kirkpatrick Foundation in May 1955 and have given millions of dollars to charities in Oklahoma, especially through the arts and humanities and medical research. They also established the Oklahoma City Community Foundation in 1969and the Omniplex Science Center in 1978 (renamed Science Museum Oklahoma in2007). Eleanor died May 20, 1997. and John died October 4, 2006.

Mr. and Mrs. Louis Bodnar lived in the home after the Kirkpatricks. In 1984 the home was purchased by Mrs. Martha Haswell Baldwin, a psychotherapist and president of Options Now, Inc., a holistic health center. Martha had two daughters.

This red brick Italianate home with a red clay-tiled roof and porches sits on a hill. The magnificent beveled glass front doors were salvaged from the Colcord home. An Art Noveau-inspired medallion featuring a pair of peacocks facing a faceted urn sits above the front doors.

The living room features long mullioned windows, beautiful deep and a carved marble fireplace. The double cased opening on the east side of the living room leads to a sun porch with a vaulted ceiling. The use of twisted columns throughout this home reinforces the Italian influence. The dining room features doors on the east. The breakfast room is a beautifully sunny octagonal room, with a ceiling rising to a point in the center in the manner of a circus tent.

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Upstairs, there are two bedrooms which are mirror images of each other with a bath located between them. The master suite includes the former sleeping porch, the original master bedroom, the master bath, and a dressing area was converted from the room originally designed as luggage storage. The backyard includes beautiful gardens and patios which surround the home, as well as the swimming pool which was added in the 1970s. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Brown featured the home on the 1993Home Tour.