Facts & Figures
Seventy railcars of Indiana Limestone were used to construct to original structure. The same company provided stone for the 1998 addition.
How many, how high, how big?
McFarlin by the numbers.
THEN:
- December 7, 1924, dedication
- $700,000, initial cost
- 882, membership upon opening
- $12,000, budget
- 1200, seats in Sanctuary
- 103 x 180 ft, footprint of original building
- 84 ft, highest point of roof
- 56 x 32 ft, south stained glass window in sanctuary
- 112 ft, height of bell tower
- 18, notes in original chimes
- 2500, attendance at first service
- 3 blocks, distance to University of Oklahoma
NOW:
- 8/98, new addition begun
- 46,000 sq ft, size of new addition
- $6,000,000, cost of new addition
- 5000, approximate membership
- $2,100,000, approximate budget
- $450,000, original anonymous gift to McFarlin Foundation
- 1967, the year McFarlin daycare opened
- 241, McFarlin's Boy Scout Troop, established in 1933
- $500,000, cost of Noack organ, Sept. 25, 1988
- 501, number of parking spaces
- 25, number of kneeling cushions in sanctuary
- 105,000 sq ft, size of entire building
The 10 chandeliers dangle 40 ft. above the floor of the sanctuary. They can be lowered from above the sanctuary to change the lightbulbs.