Home Histories

The house at 608 is a large "four-square" red brick house with a two-story wing on the east having an enclosed porch on the first floor. This house has the typical plan of the large houses in the 600 block. It varies notably by having steel casement windows. The entrance is especially fine with a quite good Adam entrance porch with side lights and fan over the door of leaded glass, a simple arched soffit supported on wood Doric columns. Ivy covers this house and at the property line in front there is a truly outstanding cedar hedge five feet high curving along the run about the entire length of the house.

Thomas Casady 1928-56
Episcopal Diocese 1956 -

Rev. Casady's long career in the Episcopal church began with his baptism when he was only eight days old in June, 1881 in Des Moines, Iowa. He received his BA degree from the General Theological Seminary in New York City in 1906. Ordained a priest the following year, he served churches in Nebraska, Iowa and Colorado.

When he became bishop in 1927, Oklahoma was still a missionary district, with one episcopal communicant to every 500 persons in Oklahoma. One of Mr. Casady's prime goals was to make the missionary district a diocese, which was accomplished in 10 years of work to make the district self-supporting. In the years prior to his death in 1958 at the age of 77, twenty-five new churches and many parish houses and rectories were built.

The bishop was deeply involved in work with Alcoholics Anonymous, the mentally ill, and children in need of help. He and his mother founded St. Monica's Home for Wayward Girls at Des Moines, and headed a boy's camp in Minong, Wisconsin for five years. He was involved in founding Casady School and it was named in his honor.