Sarah Anna and Daniel Wise Hogan constructed this home in 1912. The basic design is Italianate, a style that features a rectangular floor plan, wide eaves, low-pitched roof, and balanced arrangement of doors and windows. Inside, the most unusual feature is the ballroom in the basement, with hand-painted Italian fresco walls.

Daniel, a native of Kansas, was born October 24, 1867. Anna was born on February 13, 1865. They had a son, Clark Harvey, born in 1893 and a daughter, Dorothy, born in 1898. Daniel made the run in 1889 but did not get a claim. They moved to Yukon where Daniel founded the First National Bank in 1892. In 1911 he became president of the Farmer’s National Bank in Oklahoma City which later became City National Bank in 1930. He remained with that bank until he was 100 years old, serving most of that time as chairman of the board. He also led a citizens advisory committee that oversaw construction of the city’s first water treatment plant and the community’s first public housing construction. Daniel was an avid sportsman who hunted quail and rode horses into his 90s.

In 1912, as he was just beginning this career, Hogan bought the lot on 15th, hired well-known architect J.W. Hawk, and began work on a $30,000 home. Daniel and Anna lived in the home until 1927. Anna died October 14, 1939, at age 74. Daniel later married Faye B. and in 1944 they purchased the home at 300 NW 16th. Daniel died at the age of 104 on April 24, 1972.

Edward A. Walker purchased the home in 1927 and converted the sleeping porch on the northwest corner of the home to a sitting room with stained glass windows. Edward was born in Illinois in 1871 and worked as a correspondent for a small-town newspaper at the age of 12. He moved to Oklahoma Territory in 1889 at the age of 18 to work as a drug salesman. He earned his law degree in 1896 from the University of Texas Law School at Austin and returned to Oklahoma Territory to set up his law practice, after spending his last $5 to buy law books. His first case was a divorce for a farmer who gave him an old gray mare as his payment, which Walker used as his first investment for horse-trading. He began trading horses for banks, a lucrative business. Walker moved to Oklahoma City after residing in Ardmore as an attorney for 18 years and began serving as the president of the Tradesmen’s National Bank. When he was recognized by “Who’s Who in Oklahoma City in 1931,” Walker was said to have had the largest real estate holdings of any individual in the state. He was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame in 1938. A 12-story residence hall for men in Couch Center on the OU campus was named in his memory. Walker died in 1951.

In 1969 William (Bill) and Ruth Wurst Ware featured the home on the annual Home Tour. Bill was born in 1921 in Louisiana and moved to Minco, OK in 1930 where he worked on a farm. Ruth was born in 1918 on River Mountain near Delaware, Arkansas. Bill and Ruth met while working at Armour & Co. and they married in 1942. Ruth was very artistic and enjoyed painting, decorating, quilting, and crocheting. Bill was a welder and he purchased Peerless Boiler & Engineering in the 1940s which later became Rockware International and refurbished power generation equipment in the US with exports to Central and South America. Bill served as Chairman of the OKC Planning Commission and served on the City Council in the 1960s. Ruth and Bill had three children and were married 65 years when Ruth died in 2007 at the age of 89. Bill died in 2015 at the age of 93.

In 1983, after the home had changed hands several times, it was purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Horton, who moved in with their three children. They immediately removed tons of debris both inside and out and exposed the oak flooring and other architectural details. In 1989 the house was purchased by Jennie Ann and Dr. Clinton A. Medbery, III, who also did many renovations on the home.

In December of 2019 owner Mark Wolfe hosted the Heritage Hills Holiday Party in the basement ballroom.

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