Home Histories

Here is a salmon colored brick hipped roof house with a central square mass and a two-story wing on the east. This house, like 615 N.E. 14th next door, looks older than others in the area. It has a massive central dormer window, now closed, and a two-story stucco porte-cochere wing on the west. The porte-cochere and the entrance porch have Tudor arches in wood. There is a four-paned window in front decorated with leaded glass panels across the top.

Rudy Copeland 1918-22
A.H. Crabb 1922-26
H.D. McEwen 1926-33
Robert S. Kerr 1933-36
Charles C. Crabb 1939-51
William Starks 1951-71

This house was built in 1918 by Rudy Copeland and was the first house in the area. Mr. Copeland was vice president and general manager of the MOCO Company, one of the first Oklahoma companies to manufacture innertubes for bicycles and automobiles.

Mr. and Mrs. Crabb moved into the house in 1922 from Guthrie where Mr. Crabb operated a land office and homesteaded. He was among those who made the famous run into Oklahoma territory, and was reportedly credited with bringing the first cotton gin into Oklahoma, which he sold to Mr. Coyle of Coyle, Oklahoma. He was one of the first councilmen elected in Guthrie. He helped establish Arcadia as a trading center with his general store and cotton gin. He opened the First National Bank of Arcadia. He owned several summer hotels in Colorado and also had mining interests there. While living in Oklahoma City, he owned the Packard Agency and had oil interests. His children recall hunting for rabbits between their house on 14th Street and the Capitol building.

In 1926, the H.D. McEwen family moved into the house. They were the owners of the McEwen-Halliburton Department store -- one of the largest and most well-known in the state at that time. Mrs. McEwen was a member of the Halliburton family.

Mr. Kerr lived in the house from 1933 to 1936. He was one of Oklahoma's most illustrious citizens -- a governor of the state, United States senator and founder of the Kerr-McGee Oil Company.

Mr. Crabb was associated with the Oklahoma State Crime Bureau.

Mr. Starks was an Oklahoma City policeman.