Built 1870 Opened 1870 Architectural style American Queen Anne style | NRHP Reference # 80004289 Area 3,642 m² Added to NRHP 29 August 1980 | |
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Location 14 E. Smith Ave., McAlester, Oklahoma | ||
The McAlester House is an historic house located at 14 East Smith Avenue in McAlester, Oklahoma. Named for its builder and first owner, the colorful J. J. McAlester, for whom McAlester was named, it began in 1870 as a four-room log house in what was then Indian Territory. J. J. McAlester later surrounded the log structure with a single-story house and also built a much larger two-story Queen Anne style house joined by a breezeway to the smaller structure. Its furnishings, many of which remain to this day, reflected the prosperity and position that the McAlester family enjoyed in the community. The building was renovated in 1960 by J. L. McAlester, grandson of J. J. McAlester. In 1980, McAlester House was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
In the early 2000s it was bought by its present owners who have continued the work of renovation and preservation. The house was featured in 2008 in a segment of the HGTV channel's If Walls Could Talk program. The segment continues on HGTV reruns and has been rebroadcast as recently as September 22, 2009.