Nichols and Chandler constructed this ornate, two-story brick home in 1918. The standard Colonial Revival design was enhanced by the broad front porch, massive brick columns, and arabesque gables on the porch and dormer. Adding to the horizontal emphasis of the home were wide eaves and the porte cochere.

The unusual home was sold to Mr. and Mrs. William R. Samuel. William was secretary of the Oklahoma Bankers Association.

Kent W. Shartel, purchased the home in 1929. Kent was the son of Oklahoma City pioneer, John W. Shartel, known as father of the street car system and the state’s leading railroad attorney. The younger Shartel was educated at Kansas State University, MIT, and the University of Michigan, where he earned a law degree in 1913. After graduation, he returned to Oklahoma City and specialized in railroad law. He served as general counsel for the Oklahoma Railway Company, assistant attorney for the Rock Island Railroad in Oklahoma, and general counsel for the Oklahoma City, Ada, and Atoka Railroad Company.

When he moved into the home on 19th, Shartel was joined by his wife, Elizabeth Jordan, a native of Maine, and their daughter, Elizabeth. They remained until 1939. For years thereafter, the home was occupied by Mrs. MaeBell Conger, a longtime, well known speech teacher at Central High School.

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Gist featured the home on the 1987 Home Tour. They remodeled the “keeping room ”adding a fireplace and entertainment center and re-landscaping the backyard.

In 1979 Mr. and Mrs. Scott Duncan began remodeling the house to approximate the decor of a New England home circa 1800 as a setting for their fine collection of antique furnishings from New England and the mid-Atlantic states dating from 1720 to1830. The Duncans featured the home on the 1980 Home Tour.

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