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History

This Victorian home was the first home built on the block in 1905. It originally served as rental property before it was sold in 1909 to William A. Sullivan. William was a native of New York who was manager of the Stock Exchange Cigars Company. When he moved in, Sullivan was joined by his 28-year-old son, Daniel, and two household workers.

In 1915 the house was purchased by Dr. and Mrs. Dolph D. McHenry. A native of Nebraska, Dr. McHenry received his medical degree in 1895, then moved to the Indian Territory in 1901. After post-graduate training in Vienna, Austria, he moved to Oklahoma City and opened a practice in the newly constructed Colcord Building. Dr. McHenry was an instructor in the School of Medicine in 1912-1913.

The McHenrys made several changes in the house. They remodeled the kitchen, installed a second oil-burning furnace, added a side porch, and removed a wall between the original parlor and library, making a large living room with fireplace. After he suffered a heart attack in 1931, Dr. McHenry installed an elevator. Dr. McHenry later gave the home to his daughter Mrs. William Mi. The Mi family added the gracious side porch in 1938.

Judge Stewart and Betty Hunter featured the home on the Heritage Hills Home Tour in 1979. Stewart was born on November 14, 1927, in White Plains, New York. His parents had emigrated to the United States from Scotland. He served in the US Navy in 1945-46 and then enrolled at Oklahoma A&M University where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in Animal Husbandry. He also met Betty Elrod at A&M. Betty was born July 4, 1929, in Lawton, Oklahoma. They married on August 3, 1950. The Hunters had two sons, Craig and Jeffrey. Stewart served as a platoon leader with the 45th Division in Korea between 1952 and 1953. In 1962 he received his Juris Doctorate degree from Oklahoma City University and began a long and distinguished military and civilian legal career. In his spare time Stewart enjoyed sailing on Lake Hefner. He died on July 2, 2011.

Betty completed her Bachelor of Science in Education in May 1964 from Central State University and taught at Putnam Heights elementary school. In later years, Betty pursued her lifelong dream of becoming an attorney. She obtained her Juris Doctorate Degree from Oklahoma City University in May 1982 and began working in the State Attorney General’s office in 1983. She loved pets, music, dance, theater, books, film, and travel. Betty died on May 23, 2016.

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