[1] It was deemed "significant for its historical connection with a prominent Choctaw rancher and statesman.

During the Civil War he served with the Confederate First Regiment of Mounted Rifles under command of his brother Jackson.

After the war, he moved near Sans Bois in present day Haskell County, where he built this ranch home in 1866.

McCurtain was one of the wealthiest landowners and ranchers in the Choctaw Nation, cultivating about 300 acres and owning about 500 head of cattle under the Choctaw system of common ownership and use of land.

This article about a property in Oklahoma on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.