Travel to Great Mirror: Photo 11

But Carey Place wasn't Oklahoma City's first Spanish infatuation. For that, we might visit 1601 Classen, which borders the dumbbell-shaped Harndale Park. What makes it especially interesting is that it's an early product of Doc Nichols. That would be Dr. G.A. Nichols, a dentist who in the 1920s became Anton Classen's successor as Numero Uno among Oklahoma City's builders. If Nichols knew anything, it was how to hustle. He built this house in 1925 and sold it for $32,000 after advertising it as "a Castle in Spain" in "aristocratic Harndale." Well, maybe.

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