The Miller family mansion known as the White House once stood here as the centerpiece of the 101 Ranch Headquarters site. It was constructed in 1909 after the first stately wood-frame home of Colonel G.W. Miller, his wife Molly, and their children Joe, George, Zach, and Alma burned in January of that year. Designed in the colonial style of a southern plantation, the concrete house had an asbestos roof intended to make it fireproof, two porticoes with paved driveways on the east and west sides, three stories, seventeen rooms, a basement, and nine bedrooms each with its own bath. Its rooms included a spacious living room, dining room, billiard room, bar, library, kitchen, and office space for the three brothers, and it offered modern conveniences that included an electric generator plant for lights in the house and other headquarters buildings, steam heat, hot and cold water, and hot and cold ventilation. The third floor resembled a dormitory and could sleep upward of 100 visitors in four-poster beds. From the upper floors, views took in orchards, vineyards, fields of alfalfa, corn, and wheat, the many headquarters buildings, and the Round Up performance grounds about half a mile to the southeast. The living room had polished floors covered by colorful Indian rugs, while the walls displayed western paintings and early western artifacts, and the other rooms were finished in different woods with walls and ceilings frescoed in muted tones in an elegant Old South style. Visitors were common and always welcome, especially members of the local Ponca Indian Tribe, who named Colonel Joe Miller their honorary White Chief and gave him the tribal name Muth-a-montha, meaning Going up. The family also had friendly relationships with the Osage, Tonkawa, and Otoe Missouri, and the house received prominent national guests including Admiral Richard E. Byrd, John Philips Sousa, Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Warren G. Harding, General J. BlackJack Pershing, John D. Rockefeller, artists, actors, and members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. After the 101 Ranch went bankrupt in 1936, the last surviving Miller son, Colonel Zack Miller, was evicted from the house. In 1937 the federal government bought the ranch for subdivision as a Depression-era resettlement program, placing the White House under the Federal Farm Security Administration, which sold the building for salvage at auction in 1943 and required its demolition.