Home Histories

626 has white painted bark-textured brick. The front facade is asymmetrically arranged with sloping English style roofs, featuring two Dormer windows and one eye-brow window. The living room has three windows, the center one being arched. The east gable at the driveway has a huge ten-foot high window looking into the living room.

Walter Beavers 1930-33
Robert S. Kerr 1935-38
Glenn Skinner 1938-40
Anna Jacobson 1940-48
Benjamin Cain 1948-55
George Bettis 1955 -

Walter Beavers was a wealthy man, but lost the house during the depression.

Robert S. Kerr was admitted to the Oklahoma Bar in 1922 and practiced in Ada. Beginning as a drilling contractor in 1926, he built a large oil producing company, the Kerr-McGee Oil Industries, Inc. He served as Governor of Oklahoma from January 11, 1943 to January 13, 1947 and as United States Senator from November 2, 1948 until his death on January 1, 1963. He is buried on a hilltop south of Ada, Oklahoma, near the site of the cabin in which he was born. His portrait is one of four commissioned by the Oklahoma Legislature. All were painted by Charles Banks Wilson of Miami, Oklahoma and hang in the fourth floor rotunda of the State Capitol Building.

Glenn Skinner was vice president of Black, Sivalis and Bryson Company.

Benjamin Cain owned Capitol Bearing Company.

George Bettis was a traveling freight agent for MKT Railroad.