Courtesy Skip Warren
Flashback
Tulsan Skip Warren visited Ma-Hu as a child. His mother, Loretta Genevive Richard-Warren (pictured, top, in the 1940s), was the great-niece of homeowner Mabel Queen-Hodges.
Mysterious mansion A
few rock remnants are the only remaining evidence of the mansion known as Ma-Hu. The home at East 27th Street and South Memorial Drive was named for its owners, Mabel Queen-Hodges and oilman Hugh Blair Hodges. Their estate comprised 40 acres, including a 9,000-square-foot home built in 1937 that 136
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resembled something from the English countryside, according to John Brooks Walton’s “100 More Historic Tulsa Homes.” When the Hodges died eight months apart in 1970, their home went into a trust. Plans to commercially develop the property flopped, and the vacant mansion deteriorated. A few local organizations used it to host “Screams in the Dark,”
a haunted house and fundraiser, beginning in 1972. In the late ’70s a fire destroyed the mansion and it was razed. The City of Tulsa acquired some of the former Ma-Hu property in the early ’90s to build Terrace Park, according to a Tulsa World article. The Tracy Park II subdivision was later developed between the park and South Memorial Drive. tþ