Charles Evans bought this house from G.A. Nichols in 1920. A native of Kentucky, Evans entered the field of teaching in 1887 and eventually rose to the position of superintendent. In 1905 he left the hills of Kentucky for Ardmore, Chickasaw Nation, where he became superintendent of schools.

From there he was named president of Central State Normal School in Edmond, president of the University of Tulsa, and director of the extension department at Oklahoma A&M in Stillwater. Along the way he wrote three books, Oklahoma Civics (1908), Oklahoma Civics and History (1915), and Lightson Oklahoma History (1920). Evans later became executive director of the Oklahoma Historical Society, editor of the Chronicles of Oklahoma, and a member of the Oklahoma Hall of Fame. Evans and his wife Martha remained in the Colonial Revival home until 1923.
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Five years later the home was purchased by another native of Kentucky, Kee R.McKee. McKee was a self-made businessman, an orphan who learned a trade, builta chain of hardware stores out of Cadiz, Kentucky, and invested in real estateand banks. In 1903 he sold everything and moved to Oklahoma City.

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McKee organized a lumber company and the American Brick and Tile Company. Then he got into the oil business, built the Oklahoma Refining company on eight acres east of Oklahoma City, and helped organize Liberty National Bank in 1918.Ten years later, at the age of 65 and married to his second wife, he purchased the home on 17th and remained there until his death in 1940.