Marion Munroe and Ida May Allen Kerfoot built this Colonial Revival home in 1905. The home has a frame construction which features a center entry with sidelights and decorative pilasters as well as a broad front porch with iron railings. The design of the symmetrically placed leaded glass windows is mirrored in the wooden windows on the second story.

A native of Kentucky, Marion settled in Kansas before moving to Oklahoma. With a lot in Oklahoma City, he helped organize Kerfoot, Miller and Company, a wholesale dry goods firm located next to the tracks at 9 W. Main. As the territories farmers prospered after 1897, his firm grew.

The Kerfoots lived in the house only until 1908, after which it changed hands several times before it was purchased by Mr. and Mrs. John M. Draper. Like Kerfoot, Draper was a native of Kentucky who homesteaded on the Kansas frontier before moving to Oklahoma Territory. In Shawnee he met William Longmire, and together they opened a furniture store and funeral home.

Draper also met his wife, Fannie Del Rice, in Shawnee. She, too, was a child of the frontier whose parents settled in Norman. One of the first graduates from the University of Oklahoma, she took a civil service exam and got a job teaching at an Indian school. After a year of teaching among the Blackfeet at Fort Hall Reservation in Idaho, she returned to Oklahoma Territory and met Draper.

In 1909 Dr. J.G. Street approached Draper and ask if he would move to Oklahoma City and form a partnership with his son, Allen M. Street. Draper saw opportunity, so he moved his family of four and helped organize the Street-Draper Funeral Home. At first the Drapers lived in a house at 507 NW 12th, but nine years later bought the Kerfoot place on 14th for $4000, described by one real estate agent as the best bargain in town.

In 1920 Draper doubled the square footage of the house with a $6000 addition. The new rooms were for Anton and Ella Lamb Classen. Ella was Mrs. Draper‘s first cousin, while Anton and John were good friends. The Classens remained there until 1925 and Anton‘s death.

In 1945 the Draper’s son, Kenneth, and his wife, Frances, moved in with Mr. Draper. Kenneth was in the insurance business after his first career selling securities had ended with the stock market crash of 1929, Even after John’s death in 1945, the younger Drapers remained in the home until 1988, when it was sold to Raymond and Gretchen Papka. The Papkas shared their home on the 1997 Home Tour.

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