The architectural variety of 19th Street owes much to this two-story English Tudor home, constructed by Nichols and Chandler in the summer of 1917 for $10,000.The unusually balanced front facade is distinguished by the varied pitches of the gables, the half-timbering, and the wide front porch with buttressed columns on the porte-cochere.

Nichols sold the home to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Thatcher. A native of Iowa, Thatcher moved to Oklahoma City in 1913 to manage the Oklahoma City Mill and Elevator Company, a pioneer firm organized in 1890 by town father C.G. “Gristmill” Jones. In the1930s, after a series of acquisitions, he sold his mills in Oklahoma City, El Reno, and St. Louis to General Mills. While in the home, Thatcher and his wife, Carrie, took out a building permit for $2,500 and added two large rooms on the back side. The downstairs room was used as a library with a half bath; the upstairs addition served as a billiard room.

In 1952 the home was purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus Crum, III. Crum had grown up in his father’s home on 16th Street and later joined his father in running Crum’s Shoe Stores. He and his wife, Jean Ann, made many improvements to the home. They featured the home on the 1971 Home Tour.

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