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[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.4265]

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "There is nothing - no, nothing - ordinary about the million dollar Dolese mansion. This quixotic house that has 50 rooms and is still unfinished, overwhelms the visitor with its opulence. It has everything from a golden yacht trophy to art masterpieces from France, Italy and Switzerland. it even has secret passageways and an atomic bomb shelter. behind the great white pillars which are now bedecked with Christmas lights a visitor finds double and triple locked doors, muffled chimesand an amazing world of wealth. And the story behind the … continued below

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Peterson, Dick December 1, 1959.

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This photograph is part of the collection entitled: Oklahoma Publishing Company Photography Collection and was provided by the Oklahoma Historical Society to The Gateway to Oklahoma History, a digital repository hosted by the UNT Libraries. It has been viewed 681 times, with 8 in the last month. More information about this photograph can be viewed below.

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "There is nothing - no, nothing - ordinary about the million dollar Dolese mansion. This quixotic house that has 50 rooms and is still unfinished, overwhelms the visitor with its opulence. It has everything from a golden yacht trophy to art masterpieces from France, Italy and Switzerland. it even has secret passageways and an atomic bomb shelter. behind the great white pillars which are now bedecked with Christmas lights a visitor finds double and triple locked doors, muffled chimesand an amazing world of wealth. And the story behind the eight-room home on the corner of NW 38 and Shartel that grew into a mansion nearly half a block long just as amazing. "It just grew like Topsy," Mrs. Ardith Carelene Dolese explains. "We added a room there and I guess we didn't know when to quit." In 1941 the eight-room which which cost $14,500 and looked like many others in the neighborhood, became the Dolese home. It was the "honeymoon cottage" for Ardith and Roger M. Dolese when they moved to Oklahoma City from Detriot. The couple married the year after Dolese was graduated from the University of Michigan. they were married in Sun Valley, Idaho. Two of Roger's uncles had moved from Chicago to Oklahoma City years before and started a profitable concrete-mixing business. Neither had children. they wanted their nephew to take over. Roger went into the company and later, when his uncles died, found himself managing the business which has since mushroomed into a multi-million corporation.................. (T-8-9-68 by Tom Boone) Problem: Divide $15 million by two. Answer: Absolute Confusion. A district court is Oklahoma City has grappled with this problem and has come up with the above answer. Case Drags On The court is hearing a divorce action brought by Mrs. Ardith Carelene (?) Dolese against her husband, Roger M. Dolese. The divorce petition was filed nearly nine years ago, and the case is still plugging along...."

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PublishDate: O-12-6-59

Credit: Daily Oklahoman

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  • Daily Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, December 6, 1959

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  • December 1, 1959

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Peterson, Dick. [Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.4265], photograph, December 1, 1959; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1698805/: accessed June 27, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.

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