Quanah Parker Star House, National Register historic house in Eagle Park, United States
The Quanah Parker Star House is a two-story clapboard house in Eagle Park, Oklahoma, with a gabled section projecting from the front left and a covered veranda on thin white columns. Its red shingled roof carries five large white five-pointed stars, one centered above four along the main slope.
Rancher Burk Burnett funded the construction in 1889 as a residence for Comanche Chief Quanah Parker. Parker lived in the house until his death in 1911 and received important figures of his era there.
The building takes its name from Chief Quanah Parker, who lived here and welcomed guests from different worlds. The stars on the roof remain a visible sign of his position between Comanche and American society.
The site lies north of Cache and is currently closed due to ongoing restoration efforts. Water and weather damage have severely affected the interior and require long-term repair work.
The photograph shows five stars on the roof, not ten. Wayne Gipson, nephew of owner Herbert Woesner, said Parker's descendants told him the chief had stayed in a "five star hotel" in Washington and had ten stars painted so he could tell Roosevelt he would have better accommodations with ten stars instead of five.
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