Description: The Lawton Heritage Association is a non-profit corporation promoting historic preservation in and around the Lawton, Oklahoma area.
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The Mattie Beal Home will be closed December 18th through February 3rd. For information or questions, email us at [email protected]
The Historic Mattie Beal Home, a 14-room, 2-story residence in Neoclassical Greek Revival style with Baroque ornamentation and Mediterranean roof, was built 1907-1910 by Charles Warren and Mattie Beal Payne. In the land lottery of 1901 the second name drawn was Martha “Mattie” Helen Beal, a young telephone operator from Wichita, Kansas. She chose a 160-acre tract near the southern edge of the Lawton town site and eventually divided her acreage into affordable lots. Mattie donated land for Lincoln School, a
Funded by the McMahon Foundation, the City of Lawton, State and Federal agencies, and local civic groups, the LHA saved this historic structure from demolition, and in 2003-2005 sponsored another extensive renovation of the home. “A town can lose the memories of what it was, and thereby lose the sense of what it is, or wants to be, all in the name of progress, when it rips up the tissues that visually bind one strand of its history to the next.” Tony Brooks - 1st LHA President Dedication of the restored Hom