

Friday we backtracked to Sapulpa, OK, and the Frank House by Bruce Goff. Built for the owners
of Frankoma Pottery and now occupied by their daughters, the Frank House incorporates Frankoma
tiles into the design and displays Frankoma pottery in every nook & cranny. On Friday
afternoon, we toured the Scottish Rite Masonic Temple in Guthrie, OK. "One of the world's
largest Masonic buildings," it is an encyclopedia of architecture with a Roman room, Assyrian
room, Gothic room, Italian Renaissance room, British room, Egyptian room, well you get the
picture. 55 rooms, 12 bathrooms, 7 fireplaces, 3 kitchens, it's enormous. Speaking of
enormous, the next stop was the Marland Mansion in Ponca City, OK. Built for oil millionaire,
U. S. senator & Oklahoma governor E. W. Marland, this 55-room 'Palace on the Prairie'
contains gold-leafed domes, grand ballrooms, muraled ceilings, paneled walls with wood from
England's Royal Forest and ruby-eyed stone owls. And the life of Mr. Marland and his adopted
daughter/2nd wife is so fascinating there's a mini-series and a feature film in the works.







