tmaggies said:

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Yes unfortunately it is and was flooded about a year before we visited. There is a dilapidated trading post in Cache that an eccentric man runs and will take you for a tour. Eccentric is probably a kind term and he doesn't seem to care about having it saved.

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After Parker's death

The structure was purchased by his daughter Laura Neda Parker Birdsong upon Parker's 1911 death. Originally located near the Wichita Mountains north of Cache on Fort Sill's west range, Birdsong moved the house from its original location to Cache and sold it to Herbert Woesner in 1958. Although no one can be certain why Parker painted the stars on his roof, lore has it that he meant it as a display of rank and importance equal to a military general. The current owner, Woesner's nephew Wayne Gipson, offered the explanation told to him by Parker's descendants that the Chief had been to Washington D.C. to speak with Theodore Roosevelt, and while there had stayed in a "five star hotel". Parker had 10 stars painted on his roof to explain to Roosevelt upon his arrival that he would have better accommodations with ten stars instead of five.[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quanah_Parker_Star_House#cite_note-6][6][/url] The Preservation Oklahoma organization has listed the Star House as endangered.[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quanah_Parker_Star_House#cite_note-7][7][/url]

Preservation

The Star House is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is also on Oklahoma's list of Most Endangered Historic Places. A storm in 2015 further damaged the already crumbling house, but stimulated efforts to preserve and reconstruct it, although preservation efforts are complicated by the fact that the house is in private ownership. A grant from the National trust for Historic Preservation enabled an assessment of the condition of the house and developed a plan to maintain it.[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quanah_Parker_Star_House#cite_note-8][8][/url] The cost of restoring the house was estimated at more than one million dollars.[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quanah_Parker_Star_House#cite_note-9][9][/url]

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And there the situation stood until a grant paid for an architectural assessment report. Just stabilizing Star House will cost $200,000. Restoring will run over a million. After the report Comanche Nation officials promised to spring for pocket change and register a "savethestarhouse.org" website to take donations. But digging the change out of the sofa must have been a bigger challenge than expected because the website is dead.

Let's put this in perspective. The most recent figures (from 2006!) show the Comanche nation made a $35,000,000 profit from their four Oklahoma casinos and, with one exception, for the next ten years revenue has increased. Yet the nation is passing the hat among outsiders to raise money to save the last home of its greatest war chief.

Part of the problem is Gipson, a nonComanche. The nation wants him to give up control of Star House, evidently out of the goodness of his heart. The other is foundations and government won't donate to an individual for a restoration project of this type. Someone will have to establish a 501(c)3 tax-exempt charity to accept donations, a project beyond Gipson's means, but well within that of the Comanches.

Gipson may not be the easiest person to deal with, but he's obviously not viewing Star House as a profit center. If he had, Gipson would've been selling Parker's furniture piecemeal over the years to collectors.

The feds spent $199 million building the Museum of the American Indian; the Comanches make millions in profits off their casinos each year and Gipson made $8.00 in sales the day I visited.
The Comanches, Oklahoma and/or the feds must to come up with a solution that includes Gipson and saves the house. Now. Otherwise, Star House is going the way of Geronimo's teepee.

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Cinco Ranch Aggie said:

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We recently went to Gulf Shores, Alabama, where we took the ferry ride across Mobile Bay and saw this military fort, that I was previously unaware of.

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