Oscar Lee
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Oscar Lee was a land developer and hotel owner in early Oklahoma City. Lee came to the city in 1889 and later opened the Lee Hotel. The hotel would later become the Lee Huckins Hotel, and eventually the Huckins Hotel. The hotel was the temporary state capitol after the capital moved from Guthrie in 1910 to Oklahoma City until the current state capitol building was built in 1917. Lee Avenue is named for him.
