Why we're called The Fair Grounds
Spend a little time in the John F. Kennedy neighborhood and the name explains itself. In October 1907 — a month before Oklahoma became a state — the very first State Fair of Oklahoma opened on the east side of the city, at NE 10th Street and Eastern Avenue, the street known today as Martin Luther King Avenue. As the story is usually told, a civic leader bought the land for it, and the fair arrived all at once: a half-mile horse-racing track, a grandstand, a music hall and an exposition hall.
The fair stayed on the east side for nearly half a century before it moved west in 1954. The old grounds didn't sit empty for long — they became the campus of Douglass High School, which is still there today, about half a mile from these homes.
The neighborhood around the homes runs roughly from NE 4th to NE 8th Street between Lincoln Boulevard and MLK Avenue, next door to historic Deep Deuce, and it was home to some of the city's early Black-owned businesses. The land under our homes was part of the city's JFK urban-renewal area; the homes themselves went up in 2010 and 2011. Downtown Oklahoma City, Bricktown, the Innovation District and the OU Health Sciences Center are all within about two miles.
That's also why our colors are ribbon colors: grand-champion purple on the duplex homes' accent panels, red on the front doors and porch rails, and a gold rosette in the corner of every page. We've told the story as best we know it — if you know it better, the office would love to hear from you.
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