“An Oklahoma Story of Place: Voices of Preservation” - Quanah Parker Star House

Learn about Quanah Parker (c. 1852-1911), who was a Comanche warrior and political leader. Parker’s Star House is presently located near Cache, Oklahoma, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. Unfortunately it has experienced flooding and deterioration in recent years. Architect Rick Lueb explains the findings of a 2015 structural analysis of the building.
“An Oklahoma Story of Place: Voices of Preservation” is a video series focusing on varying preservation-related themes and topics.

[@amorr3747]

That's exactly what I did 11 years ago. I came to see this house all the way from New York (where I lived at the time. I'm originally from Poland) after having read The Empire of the Summer Moon. I was absolutely fascinated with Quannah's life story, still find it so inspirational. The house was already in a bad shape and we were not allowed to go upstairs. It still felt amazing standing on that porch where he used to stand... I really hope the house will be restored. It is such an important piece of history. It simply cannot go to waste. I have since moved to Europe and live in Scotland now but my living room wall still features photos of Quannah.

[@TimothyTimPSP]

Found this because of the Joe Rogan experience. I hope this house gets restored soon. Before it's too late.

[@billdude1313]

I like listing to Joe's podcast and google the subject at the same time, wish I had Jamie to do the button-pushing. I'm glad I'm not the only one. lol Gotta go, the brownies are kicking in.

[@TimothyTimPSP]

@@billdude1313 Hahahaha!

[@roblinn]

Me too! I got the audio book and it’s fascinating!

[@mr.e3894]

Joe is always talking about 23andme. Last year, I got mine done and found out I'm half Native American. Being of Mexican heritage, this wasnt surprising, however, it made me want to reconnect with my Native American history. It has made me feel proud . Just finished reading Empire of the summer moon and it was an exquisite read! I just now started " black elk speaks " .

[@TimothyTimPSP]

@@mr.e3894 How funny would it be if you found out they made a mistake?

[@duffripley2440]

Chief Parker should have a day of honor. the house should be place on it original location. He needs to be Honored!!!!

[@lesliesmith5797]

I have been so fascinated by the life of Quanah Parker and his mother forever. Love this type of documentary. Thank you. 🦋🦋🦋

[@HumanInterested]

Sell it Wayne! It needs some love.

[@rebeccaeaton9877]

Have been fascinated by his and his mothers story since I was a teenager. I am now 51 and am currently reading Ride The Wind again🙂

[@deifor]

Strongly recommend the book Empire of the Summer Moon

[@rayfarris5000]

Just finished it!! great read!

[@perijetton9275]

I’m going to get it on kindle now. Thank you 😊

[@Pkkct]

Just finished it. Amazing historical book. I can’t believe the fate of this house. It’s a shame

[@doesthisfacemakemelooklike535]

I've made contact with the owners Ginger and Wayne Gibson stood side by side with my new friends and washed dishes and waited tables with them so as to be able to understand why the stalemate?.. and we are currently creating a non profit preservation foundation so as to be able to IMMEDIATELY move forward with writing to ask for historic preservation grants and or getting donated funding to protect it and get it tented before winter. ...we are INTERESTED in any and all contributions and volunteers..so PLEASE if you have the MEANS TO HELP....we are interested in hearing from YOU! In this generation the Comanche Nation may not be allowed to own this property or to direct or be on the board of a non-profit organization for its preservation due to the private property interests of the owners... If wealthy people like the Comanche NATION do not use the considerable means that they NOW... possess to contribute to its preservation..... it may not exist in the Next Generation to even argue about who ownS it!! ..... so let's please TODAY OCT 2019.... let's get together on this situation !! Get it handled and stop just TALKING about it! As though we are going to do something !!! let's actually DO something!! I challenge you ALL! .... especially the Comanche Nation! I am the 15th cousin of Cynthia Ann Parker....my name is Cheley Hokanson and I have come here to Cache Oklahoma to the Trading Post, and Quanah Parkers star house from my hometown in Northern Nevada just to personally get this situation sorted out so if little old me nobody common ordinary housewife can be this determined to affect something then what can you do?.... I would love to hear from all interested parties as to a fast preservation of Quanah parkers house....BEFORE WINTER HITS YET AGAIN!! There is no more time left to waste on negotiation.... We MUST ACT NOW!

[@TimothyTimPSP]

The current episode of the Joe Rogan Experience discusses this. I hope the presentation effort gets more attention now. It's episode 1397 of his podcast if your interested. This piece of history needs to be saved before it's too late.

[@madnss69]

Apparently they keep turning down offers to help preserve it, from the Comanche Nation, from various preservation societies, from the US Government. It needs to be returned to the Comanche Nation or at the very least, moved to Fort Sill so that the Post and Comanche Nation can work on preserving it.

[@TimothyTimPSP]

@@madnss69 Yes I saw that. I try to keep an open mind but there dosen't seem to be a good reason for the family to keep turning down the help. It's just fucked up.

[@sethzky77]

I'm down to help. Contact me.

[@doesthisfacemakemelooklike535]

Fantastic now let's do something about protecting and preserving Quanah Parker star house which is currently falling down around itself in Cache Oklahoma and could very much use some tender loving care I am currently driving there right now from N.Nevada to see what I could possibly drum up as far as help with getting this priceless Irreplaceable historic home saved from ruin....NOW

[@Pkkct]

Update?

[@tracylynn1461]

was watching a video today crying saying someone has to SAVE IT😟😟😟 I hate watching my ancestors, my history and my future great granchildrens history being lost....

[@nativewhisperssociety7968]

@@Pkkct update... I TRIED SOOO HARD to get Wayne to do a not for profit historic preservation so we could receive donations all we needed they needed was 4 people to start a not for profit but ... gosh I think Wayne is a simple man and he doesn’t want to “sell out” his family’s legacy but what I don’t get is why not let someone else help pick it up and pull it together by a not for profit ... you can’t get blood out of a rock I guess... I tried I really did... I may go back again this fall ...

[@perarnemoen1085]

The king of Texas and Comancheria and the last of the great warrior chiefs of the plains indians. They say he died poor. But he gave all his belongings to his starving people. A true american hero.

[@frankespinosa8716]

The Tribe offered Mr Wayne a considerable amount but he didnt want to sell it back which i believe would have been the right thing to do the home would have been restored. Hopefully it can be saved.

[@nativewhisperssociety7968]

That is actually untrue call Wayne at the trading post restaurant in cache Oklahoma He can tell you himself. Real as real can get that man . The story is however not true. He has not been offered anything for it.

[@lauraaddison9986]

I spoke with his great great granddaughter she said otherwise. He will not sell it.

[@l2kickflip65]

​@@nativewhisperssociety7968 they offered him 1 million for it and he turned it down. That guys a dumb fuck.

[@perijetton9275]

Save this important piece of history!

[@gilhelland896]

Any reason there is so much dislike to Quanah Parker's great-grandson Vincent? I met Vincent in 1982 at the "Star House" and he was very nice, gave me a tour of the inside, and we talked more than two hours. He was very proud of his heritage and his relationship with Quanah Parker. Just confused why such dislike for him....maybe things that happened within the Comanche Nation that are not known to others.

[@sethzky77]

Also, C'mon Wayne! Let's fix it already!

[@brandonrichardson8681]

I'm his family on his mother's side. I would love to see this house one day. I hope it gets some work done to it

[@warrendelay]

Be specific. tell us the line of the Parker family that you are.

[@bethsmith5064]

I've been told through a local historian that knows my families genealogy that my family is kin to Quanah's mother. That it goes back to Cynthia Ann's mother Lucy. I have not studied it myself so I cannot for certain make those claims, however, his story is fascinating. I can't believe there isn't some type of funding for historical houses such as this. I hope to see in the near future this lovely place restored.

[@doesthisfacemakemelooklike535]

I look forward to discussing and Consulting with you as to how much you have discovered and how can you contribute on a knowledge base to what we are trying to accomplish tomorrow I will be going hopefully with the owner of the Parker star house to the bank to open a trust account so that we can start a GoFundMe page I am physically personally present here and trying to become the driving force behind moving forward and actually really in the real world creating a quanna parker star house preservation Society..... Please contact the Trading Post here in Cache Oklahoma for more information

[@perarnemoen1085]

You should open a website for the Star House.

[@user-ew9hs1fo7g]

I've been here, I grew up in Cache, Ok. going to Eagle Park . Went to Cache school with 2 of the Gibsons. My brorher is married to a direct descendent of Quana Parker. So much history there. I feel blessed to have lived there.

[@audreylentz-qx2bo]

Did you go too school there with the Kennedy brothers?? My daddy was Edgar Kennedy,but everybody called Hime Red,he was the skating rink manager for Eagle Mountain Park,I live in Lawton now,I have alot of history,my grandma,momma,and daddy were freinds with Frank Rush and his momma back in Craterville park days

[@sethzky77]

The stars are probably upside down to reflect or mirror the stars above.

[@olvinyldude]

Great job !

[@cuchuloholic]

For me the wonder of the place would be having the same view out the windows and from the porches that he did as well.

[@losababy223]

My father cousin Bill Parker has relation to this great chief

[@warrendelay]

Tell us the connection,

[@GoWildHistory]

Great vid!

[@derekrogers1984]

If it hit the big lotto that house is getting restored fully

[@josefbinter691]

Isn't there a Casino out there to pick up the tab for restoration?

[@brendaprovence1750]

Has it been restored now I would love to see it I live in Arkansas which is not that far from where it is

[@970Bryson]

So is it activity being worked on?

[@mikemhoon]

It’s sad to see it today.

[@pacisablo]

So is it getting fixed or not?

[@shellyskiles9520]

Quanah is my 9th cousin through Sarah parker.

[@warrendelay]

Tell us the exact linage. otherwise it's BS. so many of you jump in here and claim to be family.

[@shellyskiles9520]

My aunt is a professional genealogist, who's written several books. So, talk to her about our lineage. Look her up: June Raimer Poole. Fair warning: She's a professional who can talk at length on this subject. Meditation can be so helpful for stress. I hope that your day improves.

[@Realstuffadventures]

Wayne Gibson is the nephew of the former owner who was Herbert Wosener.

[@spacey118]

Why they are crooked? Is the question why are they crooked? Well… that’s funny. Not particularly humorous, but. This may line up to the Parker/Gilbert swap of land charters from the original Pennsylvania/Philadelphia land charters! Martha Washington was married to a Parker, and her children were Parker’s… The PA ones, were all quakers… so it’s interesting her son was named Quanah. Also… was the top floor of another house…

[@audreylentz-qx2bo]

Quanha Parker built that house for his momma,she told him,she wanted too stars like the sky

[@soundworksdeejay]

If it had to as a last resort, can the state of Oklahoma use eminent domain to save Quanah Parker’s star house? Come on people, President Teddy Roosevelt once dined there as did Geronimo. America needs to stop revising history it doesn’t like by acting like the past never happened. ••• My Great-Great Grandpa (Luther) was married to Quanah’s mother’s 1’st cousin-Rachel Parker Plummer. I’ve followed the story of the great Chief Quanah Parker all my life.

[@lauraaddison9986]

They need to condemn it and then take it back. This guy is an ass for not giving it back to the Comanche Nation.

[@jacksonc9123]

This is my idk how many great but my grandfather

[@warrendelay]

Yea sure!! BS.

[@horsewomn]

I say build a replica of the house and use it as a museum, if at all possible.

[@lauraaddison9986]

Why? The house needs to be returned to the Comanche Nation immediately.

[@chrisbridges883]

The guy that owns this place is a hoarder. He’ll never let go of it. The porch fell off a week or two ago. The place is essentially gone.

[@user-cc2eg9je7y]

And yes quanah Parker had twelve wives and 30 children and he has them scattered all over the United States from New York State all the way back to Oklahoma and nobody's even aware of this

[@johnpierce2095]

Give it to the national ranching and heritage center

[@marine763]

We should set one day a year as a holiday to honor the American Indians.

[@jimlaney6887]

Shame on Oklahoma for not preserving this home and of other homes of Nationally known Native Americans. The home of Maria Tallchief in Fairfax, OK is too far gone now for preservation. Maria Tallchief, Osage Indian, was known all ofver the world for being a great ballerina.

[@inakaupat8262]

Die Sterne auf dem Dach zeigen mit der Spitze nach unten, das darf nicht sein. Das ist nicht gut.

[@manuelkong10]

this dude is selfish and KILLING history....he's KILLING another people's history AGAIN GIVE IT UP DONATE IT

[@garymills562]

OK history is not being changed, there are books on the commanche nation, this house in particular is well documented and photographed.

[@okiefred8399]

Actually a barbaric person. Look up his history