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Lake Hefner. / 35.567820; -97.595740. Lake Hefner is a reservoir in northwestern Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. It was built in the 1940s to expand the water supply for the city of Oklahoma City, [1] It is named after Robert A. Hefner, who served as mayor of Oklahoma City from April 11, 1939, to April 8, 1947, but was originally named the "Bluff ...
Robert A. Hefner Mansion. Coordinates: 35.483844°N 97.516200°W. The Robert A. Hefner Mansion is a historic residence in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. [ 1] Built in 1917, from 1927 it was home to lawyer, Oklahoma City mayor, and Oklahoma Supreme Court justice Robert A. Hefner. It is located at 201 Northwest Fourteenth Street.
Robert Alexander Hefner (" The Judge "), born in Hunt County, Texas, to William Lafayette Hefner and Sarah Jane Masters Hefner, was a lawyer-turned-politician. He served as mayor of Ardmore, Oklahoma, and of Oklahoma City, and as a justice of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma. Hefner was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame in 1949. [1]
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Lake Overholser is a reservoir within the city limits of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. [a] Lake Overholser is formed by Overholser Dam on the North Canadian River in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. [b] The lake is 2.9 miles (4.7 km) west of Bethany [2] and 4.4 mi (7.1 km) from Yukon. Lake Overholser is named after Ed Overholser who was the 16th Mayor of ...
Johnni Macke. January 22, 2024 at 8:12 PM. Hugh Hefner ’s love life was unconventional, but his marriage to Crystal Hefner seemed to normalize him ahead of his September 2017 death. The Playboy ...
Downtown Oklahoma City. Downtown Oklahoma City itself is currently undergoing a renaissance.Between the mid-1980s and 1990s, downtown was unchanged and largely vacant. It was the scene of the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on 5th Street between Robinson and Harvey Avenues, caused by convicted domestic terrorist Timothy McVeigh; most buildings within a 1-mile (1.6 km) radius ...
The mansion was built by Henry Overholser, considered to be the "father of Oklahoma City" by many, [1] and his socialite wife Anna Ione Murphy Overholser, and is considered to be Oklahoma City's first mansion. [2] Overholser bought the land for the purpose of building a residence in 1901 and, when built, the mansion was located away from the ...