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This house is a red brick mingle with a pitched roof, symmetrical Colonial white trim house with consoled dentil detailing at the cornice. The front porch is a simple gabled column supported authentic design. The front door has a fan light. The side porch has been enclosed.

C.L. Legg 1929-34
James A. Peacock 1934-36
James B. Veazey 1936-61
Gillis Johnson 1961-70

Mr. Legg was the manager of a crane wholesale plumbing company.

Mr. Peacock was president of Peacock Petroleum Company.

Mr. Veazey, a pioneering city businessman first bought into a store on Oklahoma City's Main Street in 1910. With his brother Stephen, Veazey gradually built up a chain of 20 Veazey Drug Stores in the city. 1920 was the year Veazey moved to Oklahoma City from his native Tennessee. Soon becoming active in civic affairs, he was a member of the Men's Dinner Club, the Oklahoma Club, the Oklahoma City Golf and Country Club, the Chamber of Commerce and the Shriners.

Veazey died in 1955 at the age of 74.

Mr. Johnson was a major general in the Air National Guard, and had his own insurance company.

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