Pruett House - Stillwater, OK
Posted by: hamquilter
N 36° 07.205 W 097° 04.595
14S E 673099 N 3998980
The Pruett House is an excellent example of the Moderne styling of architecture.
Waymark Code: WMYXY1
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 08/08/2018
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The Pruett House was built in 1939 by Haskell "Doc" Pruett, a professor at Oklahoma A & M College. Pruett's dream house is a two-story frame house with a full basement. The house is sided with asbestos shingles. The roof appears flat, but is actually a very low-pitched gable. The windows are casement, and wrap around the house on the southeast and southwest corners, with flat, wrap-around metal awnings.
The house faces west onto Redwood Drive. The house was nicknamed "The Admiral" from the beginning as the street was then named Admiral Street, and the use of metal hand-rail and porthole-like windows in the front door and over the deck, gives it a nautical theme. Attached on the north is a flat-roofed two-car garage. The roof of the garage serves as a deck on the second floor and has metal hand-rails which extend over the entrance. Built before Air-Conditioned homes, each room on both levels has windows on the south and east, to catch the prevailing Oklahoma summer breezes. The home is virtually unchanged from its beginnings, and was placed on the National Register in 2016.