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707 is a dark red clinker brick house with a steep half-timbered second story. A high pitched roof is pierced with dormer windows, some having leaded glass windows and the central window over the front door is a bay window with four leaded glass panels. There is an extensive walled garden in the rear on the west. This house is highly visible from the Capitol and the twenty-third street expressway and is quite distinctive.

Sidney Ingham 1939-1945
John Culbertson, III 1945-1950
Charles Tilghman 1950-1968
Robert Booth 1968 --

Mr. Ingham owned a lumber yard and had this house built by Harry Frederickson using many different kinds of fine wood. He donated a small chapel which bears his name to the First United Methodist Church at N.W. 4th and Robinson in Downtown Oklahoma City. It is located on the church's bustling N. Robinson side and for three decades has been a refuge for lonely, troubled and discouraged people. The chapel is the church's "silent ministry" and visitors are not disturbed unless they seek help or are in obvious trouble. Mr. Ingham was a trustee of Oklahoma City University and was on the committee which selected Dr. Antrim to be the president of the university.

Mr. Culbertson, III, an investor and dealer in oil leases, is the grandson of John James Culbertson, the man who owned the land upon which much of Lincoln Terrace was built. The grandfather, along with W.F. Harn, gave one-half of the land for the State Capitol building. Culbertson came to Oklahoma City from Paris, Texas where he had become prosperous in the cotton seed oil business. In 1901 he bought a 160 acre farm, then on the outskirts of town, for $10,000. The land bordered that of W.F. Harn's both of which ran approximately from N.E. 13th to 23rd Streets divided by Lincoln Boulevard. Harn purchased his land for $1.25 an acre and built his home, which is still standing, at 301 N.E. 17th Street. When land was needed for the Capitol building, both men donated 40 acres and the Capitol was erected on the division line, Lincoln Boulevard. Consequently, one-half of the statehouse, the Oklahoma State Historical Building, and the governor's mansion stand on land that Culbertson owned. Culbertson's name is printed indelibly on Oklahoma City history; there is Culbertson Drive, Culbertson School at 13th and Lottie, and Culbertson Heights addition. He also built Oklahoma City's first "skyscraper" known as the Culbertson Building at 30 West Sheraton. The building was five stories high and when constructed in 1904, had the state's first elevator.

Charles C. Tilghman is the son of Charles A. and the grandson of William M. Tilghman. He continues the real estate and investment business of his father.