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739 N.E. 17th Street

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Having dark red clicker brick with a hipped roof and broad two-story covered porches in front of a central mass, this house has French doors opening out of both symmetrical wings. The porch columns are of simple massive square brick, accenting its early 1920s look.

Trimble Latting 1940-42

Mr. Trimble Latting was an attorney. Mrs. Patience Latting was a city councilwoman and was, for many years, the mayor of Oklahoma City. She was the first woman in America to be elected mayor of a city of more than 350,000 people. She served from 1971 to 1983.

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