Home Histories

This is a colonial red brick two-story house with hipped roof, and a projecting entrance. On the east side there are French doors leading to a small porch.

J.V. Greever 1922-24
Wm. A. Quinn, Jr. 1925
A.A. Batten 1926-29
Wm. L. McCann
Johnston Murray 1948-50
Mrs. Willie Murray 1951-62
P.B. McCay 1963-67
Leonard Tompkins 1968-77

Mr. Greever was the president and general manager of Greever-Putnam Lumber Co.

Mr. Batten owns and operates Batten's Flower and Gifts on Northwest 23rd Street.

Mr. Veazey, a pioneer 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. 1910 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 & Country Club, the Chamber of Commerce and the Shriners. Veazey died in 1955 at the age of 74.

Johnston Murray, an attorney and son of the late Governor "Alfalfa Bill" Murray, served as Oklahoma's 14th governor from 1951-55. He carried his "just plain folks" campaign slogan into his administration, inviting the people to the governor's mansion for Sunday open houses planned by his wife, the late Willie Murray, an accomplished musician who later made an unsuccessful bid for governor. The pair divorced prior to her death while living in this house. Governor Murray had been a consulting attorney for the State Department of Institutions, Social & Rehabilitative Services at the time of his death in 1974.