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A wheel-shaped private house in Tulsa, Oklahoma, completed in 2005 by its builder, a local welder, with a Tulsa architect. When reported in 2022, the 1,386-square-foot house sat about 44 feet up, was reached by elevator, and was nicknamed the Jetsons house.
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Jetsons house (Tulsa)
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Site-level location · 36.1454° N, 96.0431° W
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The Guardian summed up Tulsa's Jetsons house in 2022 as a wheel on its side perched on a stick: a round, windowed living area lifted high above the ground, with an elevator running up a 44-foot tube. The nickname comes from its resemblance to the home in the cartoon The Jetsons.
The house was completed in 2005 by its builder, a local resident with a welding business who built it in his free time. A Tulsa architect told the Guardian that the builder brought him the concept and that he laid it out for him scale-wise; a structural engineer approved the design. The builder died in 2019 at 78.
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In 2022 the Guardian reported that the buyer planned to offer it as an Airbnb rental.
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