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A deep red brick, pitched roof house with a simple entrance on the west, this is a four square type house with five window bays. There is a small porch on the east.

W.E. Price 1922-29
John Van Meter 1930-61

Mr. Price formed a construction firm with A.O. Campbell which built many of the more important structures in Oklahoma City in the 1920s and 1930s. They built five of the homes on N.E. 15th Street. Some of the other buildings were the Shrine Temple, Owen Stadium, Skirvin Tower, Children's Memorial Hospital, Kerr Department store building, Liberal Arts building on the Norman Campus, Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority house, the Price building at 10th and Broadway, C.R. Anthony headquarters building at 6th and Broadway, and the last structure that Mr. Price built was the Baptist Headquarters building at 11th and Robinson. He was very active in the Chamber of Commerce -- working particularly with engineers in the Water Department. He and Mrs. Price had two sons, both of whom were physicians.

Mr. Van Meter was the City Superintendent of Buildings for Oklahoma City and very active in city affairs.