For those of you not familiar with the house I live in, it is a 3 bedroom Prairie tract home built by Charles Page in 1921 on the foundation of a smaller cabin and smoke house. When he first built it the land was not platted and it's first year served as the meeting house for the "Sand Springs Gentleman's Club" (Think Kiwanas, not strippers) before being bought by my Great grand parents. It has had two addresses (sometimes the mail came simply addressed to "City") and for 87 years the house has witnessed births, deaths, many many Christmas and Thanksgiving dinners, marriages, divorces, college and high school graduations, three generations of children going off to war and serving their country and hundreds of gatherings, some for no reason at all.
Pictures... West Texas just after the civil war, Great Grandma Bettie and Great Grampa, Grandpa and Grandma (newlyweds), Mom in living room about 1943.
Water running through foundation out plumbing service access, Front porch water receding, neighbor's porch
You, the faithful, can still have free access to my songs but I am going to keep this
home page geared towards keeping everyone up to date on my progress, or lack of.
You can still reach the lyrics and some of the songs at www.last-page.com/music.htm
Legal - Updates
What is happening in the case?
Grandma's House Project - Updates
New project planning
History in the house
Letters
from Otto and Walter World War 2
Pictures of those pioneers
Timeline of
major events and doings
Prior Projects - 1926 Mansion
I did the preliminary studies for this restoration. The builder did a
great job turning ideas into reality.
This was a formal Verenda (two sides enclosed) with a fountain that was crumbling and a garage with apartments over the garage that served as the maid's quarter in the 30's. The roof was flat and was always leaking. The square garage extension with its moldy rooms added nothing to this graceful Mediterranean style mansion built in 1926. So we changed the whole space.
First the roofline was raised in sketches and a pitch was added to compliment the existing Mediterranean tile roof of the main house. This allowed enough space to create a enclosed with a two story sunroom /den.
All this new space opened the old maid's quarters up replacing the windows with french doors to a balcony turning the small bedrooms in to very nice guest rooms. A spiral staircase was added giving the guest rooms two ways to access them from the sun room
Have something to say you can reach me by Regular mail via my post office box or at my destroyed residence..
PO Box 582 1212 N. Garfield
Stillwater, OK Sand Springs, OK
74076 74063