Those who drew the pictures on now brittle paper, with straight lines and curves, measurements penciled in, with bits and pieces of garnishment tagged about the landscape, could not have imagined that the breadth and width of their designs would step into a third century of life, with generations having lived within.
A house with a quarter-round front porch, built upon stacked stones for foundation, the one by two boards caressing the outside, and covering it all to be protected from the Oklahoma weather, it's front door facing north north east, its shoulders hunched up against the southwest winds, and rolling them on across the prairie.
Evelyn Varden star of stage and screen and Austin Ben Tincup, a major league pitcher for major league baseball were both born here in Adair in 1893.
A doctor gave his life in 1896, to the Dalton gang of eight train robbers, who rode their horses to the railroad station in the middle of the night sky. Two federal Marshall's were wounded, and the bad men eventually were stopped just north of there during their final robbery.
Colonel William Penn Adair, officer of the Civil War and jurist of the Cherokee Nation lived within the city for seventeen years.
This house has stood through it all. Sure, boards were fixed, white paint was put on, the back porch was opened and flat to allow the owners a cool place to rest and sleep, it has been brought up to date; the trees grew, the kids grew, the older people lived and died, and the youngsters always stood to take over. From the 19th to the 21st century, Adair has managed to continue on, and as it gets cooler, this house is looking for fall.
Ralph Peck
Photo By Ralph Peck
Adair, I.T. - Adair, Oklahoma
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