[3] The site's Period of Significance is 1910 to 1935, and it qualified for listing under NRHP criteria A and C.[2] The historic district consists of 40 acres of ranch land with 15 resources, 13 rated as "Contributing" and 2 as noncontributing.
The ranch house was built in the Prairie School architectural style out of sandstone which was mined at a local quarry.
In August, 1908, Dr. Charles E. Daily bought 50 acres (0.20 km2) in the newly created Wagoner County, Oklahoma.
In 1910, Dr. Daily bought enough shorthorn cattle from his father's ranch in Indiana to establish his own herd.
However, the elder Daily died in 1915, and his son felt he needed to sell his Oklahoma ranch and return to Indiana.
James actually started a couple of sidelines for the property: a producing oil well and a gravel production business on the Grand River.
In 1920, the ranch held a sale of registered shorthorns in Tulsa and grossed an average of $395 per head, which was considered a good price at the time.
The architecture is Prairie Style, and has the darker stone laid at the bottom of the elevation, becoming lighter as the exterior walls reach the roofline.
Slightly tapered sandstone columns with concrete capitals support the porch roof, whose ceiling is made of tongue-in-groove wood painted white.
Four-inch diameter metal pipes connecting the columns, serve as the porch rail.
The NRHP application said that they were probably made on-site to fit specific window openings, which were not all of uniform size.
[2] Inside the house, the most notable feature is a large rock fireplace in the living room, faced with quarried sandstone and having a simple wooden mantle.
The concrete floor in the living room probably prevented serious damage to the house whenever sparks may have flown out of the fireplace.
Runoff from rain flowed into the cistern, supplemented by well water, which the windmill pumped into an overhead tank.
The overhead tank no longer exists, but the cistern-well now irrigation supplies water for the yard and the surrounding land.