Territorial Homes of Chandler

Three late Victorian houses in Chandler — the Conklin House, the Johnson House, and the Kee House — are collectively listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Territorial Homes of Chandler. All three date from around 1900, built during the brief Oklahoma Territory period before statehood in 1907, and they represent the domestic architecture of the town's founding generation.

The houses are not open to the public as museums but can be appreciated from the street. They survive in a residential neighbourhood near the downtown, a short walk from the main commercial strip. For travellers interested in the Oklahoma Land Run period and the rapid domestication of what had been Sac and Fox territory, the contrast between these settled Victorian homes and the raw modernity of the Route 66 strip around them is quietly interesting.

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