I'm exchanging e-mail with a lady from Shelby, NC, which began with her comment in my main Mesta Park article:

Hi. I'm the resident curator for an historic property in Shelby, NC that was built in 1921 from plans of Aurelius-Swanson Co, an architectural firm in Oklahoma City. It is a spanish style bungalow named El Nido. You can see pictures of it on Preservation NC website or National Park Service. I understand that there is at least one house in Oklahoma City built on similar plan. I was told that it is on Classen Blvd but I've taken virtual tour of both Blvd and Drive as well as your Mesta Park tour (very well done) and can't find anything that looks like it. Do you know of any similar house in Oklahoma City.
Actually, Aurelius-Swanson Co. wasn't an architectural firm, it was more into construction and retail selling of roofing materials and such and I found several references to the company in the Oklahoman's archives. But I found no "fit."

Here's a photo of the Shelby, NC, property which is called "El Nido":



I've told her that it looks very familiar and that it could easily be located in Heritage Hills or Mesta Park. One address that she got from somewhere was 3909 Classen Blvd which is now a 2-story office building at the southwest corner of 39th & Classen. I did find a loosely similar home a couple of blocks north but it had too many dissimilarities to be a match.

I've driven through the Putnam Heights area (near and southwest of the last stated address), Mesta Park, and Heritage Hills (including Classen Drive) and I cannot locate a house which is very similar to El Nido so I'm coming up empty handed.

Can anyone identify a home that looks like the above, built in the late teens-to-1920-ish? It needs to be an airplane bungalow, white stucco, red Spanish tile roof, beveled/trapezoid pillars or whatever they are called.

I still say it looks very familiar. Perhaps I remember it from somewhere on Classen Blvd on a property that now contains an office building, but I'm just wildly guessing about that.