524 NW 15th

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History

The last house built on the south side of the street was this two-story stucco, constructed in 1917 and sold for $17,000 to Mr. Lawrence T. Sammons, vice president of A.E. Kull Company, distributors of Federal Trucks, Coleman Tractors, and Oliver Implements.

After Sammons and his wife moved in 1923, the house changed hands several times until it was purchased by Dr. Gerald and Mrs. Ruth Rogers. Gerald was born January 10, 1907, in Fulton, Missouri. He moved to Edmond, Oklahoma in 1908 and eventually attended the University of Oklahoma, where he completed his M.D. in 1930. After four years of post-graduate work in Chicago, he returned to teach at the OU Medical School in 1935. He taught for forty years and also built a successful practice in gynecology and obstetrics delivering over 11,000 babies in Oklahoma City. He was Chief of OB-GYN at St. Anthony Hospital from 1949-1964 and Chief of Staff from 1970-1976. He served his country at Lt. Commander, USNR, in the Pacific during World War II. He was also an avid photographer, fisherman and world traveler, and was active in the OKC Zoological Society. Ruth and Gerald had a son, David Gerald, and a daughter, Ruth Elaine. Gerald died March 21, 1995, in Crescent, Oklahoma.

After purchasing the house on 15th, the Rogers gutted and modernized the kitchen, added a large family room, remodeled the bathrooms, and moved the staircase. Outside, they enclosed a screened porch, moved the main entry from the center of the house to the east end and painted the stucco a dark color. A final addition was the wrought-iron decorative trim.

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