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

Augusta, Kansas

Augusta is a city in Butler County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 9,274.-19th century:The confluence of the Whitewater River and the Walnut River was originally inhabited by Native Americans , who found the land ideal for hunting and fishing. In 1868 C. N...

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

Farmer

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s, owned land in Butler County where oil

Oil

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 was discovered in the early 1900s. The oil revenue financed the construction. The Loomis-Parry Residence was added to the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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in 2009.