The sole survivor of the original six homes on the block is this two-story frame dwelling, built by Mary and Elmer C. Trueblood. Elmer was born in 1870 in Missouri. Mary, also from Missouri, was born in 1872.

The architecture is a mixture of styles, with wooden lapboard siding, fish-scale shingles, prominent gables, steeply pitched hipped roofs, bay windows, and wrap-around porches. Inside, Victorian-era preferences are evident in small rooms, dark wood, and high ceilings. During Oklahoma City’s rapid expansion from 1898 to 1909, hundreds of similar homes were built in neighborhoods from Heritage Hills on the west to Maywood on the east.

When he purchased the lots on 14th, Elmer was teller of the State National Bank. He later organized the Commercial National Bank and became secretary/treasurer and president of the Industrial Loan and Investment Company. In city government, he became city treasurer from 1905 to 1906 and city commissioner for accounting and finance from 1911 to 1915.

The Truebloods remained in the home until 1946, when it was purchased by Gudrum and Charles E. France. Charles was a native Oklahoman and an attorney who served overseas during World War II. Assigned to duty in North Africa, he met and married Gudrum, a native of Copenhagen, Denmark, who had fled before the Nazi invasion. After the war they returned to New York City, then moved to Oklahoma City and bought the house on 14th.

Today, it is one of the oldest frame homes in Heritage Hills remaining virtually unchanged.

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