The Loomis–Parry Residence is a mixed-style residential house, constructed in 1917, in

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. It is a 2-story structure, with an irregular floor plan, that retains nearly all of its original materials, including exterior brick walls and

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wooden windows. It has been continuously owned by the same family who originally constructed it. A widow named Henrietta Loomis commissioned the house as a residence for herself and her daughter. Her husband's family, who had been

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s, owned land in Butler County where

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was discovered in the early 1900s. The oil revenue financed the construction. The Loomis–Parry Residence was added to the

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in 2009.

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Houses completed in 1917 Houses in Butler County, Kansas Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Kansas Augusta, Kansas National Register of Historic Places in Butler County, Kansas {{Kansas-NRHP-stub

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