diff --git a/src/XrdTpc/XrdTpcMultistream.cc b/src/XrdTpc/XrdTpcMultistream.cc
index 6f7542c13e5..942bb3e92e6 100644
--- a/src/XrdTpc/XrdTpcMultistream.cc
+++ b/src/XrdTpc/XrdTpcMultistream.cc
@@ -372,7 +372,12 @@ int TPCHandler::RunCurlWithStreamsImpl(XrdHttpExtReq &req, State &state,
         ss << "failure: Remote side failed with status code " << state.GetStatusCode();
         m_log.Emsg(log_prefix, "Remote server failed request", ss.str().c_str());
     } else {
-        ss << "success: Created";
+        if (!handles[0]->Finalize()) {
+            ss << "failure: Failed to finalize and close file handle.";
+            m_log.Emsg(log_prefix, "Failed to finalize file handle");
+        } else {
+            ss << "success: Created";
+        }
     }
 
     if ((retval = req.ChunkResp(ss.str().c_str(), 0))) {
diff --git a/src/XrdTpc/XrdTpcState.cc b/src/XrdTpc/XrdTpcState.cc
index d9b749d9159..7d7ed5cc0c2 100644
--- a/src/XrdTpc/XrdTpcState.cc
+++ b/src/XrdTpc/XrdTpcState.cc
@@ -243,3 +243,9 @@ void State::DumpBuffers() const
 {
     m_stream->DumpBuffers();
 }
+
+bool State::Finalize()
+{
+    return m_stream->Finalize();
+}
+
diff --git a/src/XrdTpc/XrdTpcState.hh b/src/XrdTpc/XrdTpcState.hh
index fdbab41255d..d710e5150e4 100644
--- a/src/XrdTpc/XrdTpcState.hh
+++ b/src/XrdTpc/XrdTpcState.hh
@@ -81,6 +81,15 @@ public:
     // constructor once C++11 is allowed in XRootD.
     void Move (State &other);
 
+    // Flush and finalize a transfer state.  Eventually calls close() on the underlying
+    // file handle, which should hopefully synchronize the file metadata across
+    // all readers (even other load-balanced servers on the same distributed file
+    // system).
+    //
+    // Returns true on success; false otherwise.  Failures can happen, for example, if
+    // not all buffers have been reordered by the underlying stream.
+    bool Finalize();
+
 private:
     bool InstallHandlers(CURL *curl);
 
diff --git a/src/XrdTpc/XrdTpcStream.cc b/src/XrdTpc/XrdTpcStream.cc
index 0bf52656b3c..c16d7071f4c 100644
--- a/src/XrdTpc/XrdTpcStream.cc
+++ b/src/XrdTpc/XrdTpcStream.cc
@@ -20,6 +20,26 @@ Stream::~Stream()
 }
 
 
+bool
+Stream::Finalize()
+{
+    // Do not close twice
+    if (!m_open_for_write) {
+        return false;
+    }
+    for (std::vector<Entry*>::iterator buffer_iter = m_buffers.begin();
+        buffer_iter != m_buffers.end();
+        buffer_iter++) {
+        delete *buffer_iter;
+        *buffer_iter = NULL;
+    }
+    m_fh->close();
+    m_open_for_write = false;
+    // If there are outstanding buffers to reorder, finalization failed
+    return m_avail_count == m_buffers.size();
+}
+
+
 int
 Stream::Stat(struct stat* buf)
 {
@@ -29,6 +49,7 @@ Stream::Stat(struct stat* buf)
 int
 Stream::Write(off_t offset, const char *buf, size_t size)
 {
+    if (!m_open_for_write) return SFS_ERROR;
     bool buffer_accepted = false;
     int retval = size;
     if (offset < m_offset) {
diff --git a/src/XrdTpc/XrdTpcStream.hh b/src/XrdTpc/XrdTpcStream.hh
index f6c559308ce..ef5688a4817 100644
--- a/src/XrdTpc/XrdTpcStream.hh
+++ b/src/XrdTpc/XrdTpcStream.hh
@@ -21,7 +21,8 @@ namespace TPC {
 class Stream {
 public:
     Stream(std::unique_ptr<XrdSfsFile> fh, size_t max_blocks, size_t buffer_size, XrdSysError &log)
-        : m_avail_count(max_blocks),
+        : m_open_for_write(false),
+          m_avail_count(max_blocks),
           m_fh(std::move(fh)),
           m_offset(0),
           m_log(log)
@@ -30,6 +31,7 @@ public:
         for (size_t idx=0; idx < max_blocks; idx++) {
             m_buffers.push_back(new Entry(buffer_size));
         }
+        m_open_for_write = true;
     }
 
     ~Stream();
@@ -44,6 +46,15 @@ public:
 
     void DumpBuffers() const;
 
+    // Flush and finalize the stream.  If all data has been sent to the underlying
+    // file handle, close() will be invoked on the file handle.
+    //
+    // Further write operations on this stream will result in an error.
+    // If any memory buffers remain, an error occurs.
+    //
+    // Returns true on success; false otherwise.
+    bool Finalize();
+
 private:
 
     class Entry {
@@ -124,6 +135,7 @@ private:
         std::vector<char> m_buffer;
     };
 
+    bool m_open_for_write;
     size_t m_avail_count;
     std::unique_ptr<XrdSfsFile> m_fh;
     off_t m_offset;