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Pratt, KS - History


We would like to provide the residents of  Pratt  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Pratt Home page. The Pratt Home page provides as much information as possible on Pratt. Knowing Pratt’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Pratt’s Home page, you will also find Pratt’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Pratt has a population of 6595. 51% of Pratt’s inhabitants are Male, and 49 are female. 42.8% of Pratt is married and 59.8% own their own home. The Average Home price is $95,946, and the average rent is $703. Household median income in Pratt is $52,243, and the individual median income is $25,902. Pratt’s Ethnic is the following: White(92.3%), Hispanic(8.3%), Multiple(4.6%), Black(2.6%), Asian(0.3%), Other(0.3%).


Built in 1930, Hotel Roberts is the largest and most highly styled historic hotel in Pratt. Construction of the hotel was initiated by the Pratt Chamber of Commerce, which formed a committee in the late 1920s specifically to facilitate the construction of a large new hotel. Seen as a potentially valuable asset for the community, the hotel was financed in part through a public subscription campaign, and constructed on land provided by the Chamber.


The Pratt Hotel Company owned and operated the hotel and hired Wichita architect Samuel S. Voigt and Kansas City contractor Webster L. Elson to design and build the building. Elson not only supervised the rapid construction of the "fire-proof" building, he was a founding member of the Pratt Hotel Company, and he retained an ownership interest in the property for many years.


The community hospital was established on the eighth floor of the building in 1932, complete with an operating room and an x-ray machine. Architecturally, the building is significant as an early and sophisticated example of the Art Deco style in central Kansas. The hotel opened as the Hotel Roberts in 1930, and continued under that name until 1959, when it was purchased by Monte Parrish and renamed the Hotel Parrish.


In January 2015 it was listed on the National and State Registers of Historic Places for its local significance in the areas of architecture and community planning and development.During World War II, the nearby Pratt Army Airfield was the first base used for training Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber crews and also served as a staging area for getting early aircraft combat-ready, in what became known as the Battle of Kansas.The Miss Kansas Parade and Pageant are held here.The state headquarters of Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks was constructed southeast of the town.


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