1120 N Louisa Ave, Shawnee, OK 74801

She was built in 1935 and she’s not slowing down. New LVP floors in 2025 mean they look great and hold up to real life. A Class 4 shingle roof went on in 2023, which your insurance agent will appreciate as much as you will. When a house has been this well cared for, the age starts working in your favor.

The floor plan is open and nothing’s wasted. The kitchen island almost has its own zip code: everyone finds a spot around it, no one’s stuck out of the conversation, and there’s counter space for days. The storage actually keeps up with real cooking. This is the kind of kitchen that makes you want to actually have people over. Off the living room, a built-in bookcase alcove gives you a quiet place to land when the gathering winds down by 9:00 sharp.

The covered front porch faces east, which means cool evenings, no sun in your face, and enough room for a proper crowd. The current owners eat meals out there regularly, and once you’re out there, you’ll understand why. Out back, an open patio off the dining room gives you a natural spot to pull chairs around a fire pit, with mature trees along the west boundary handling the late-day sun before it handles you.

Then there’s what the sellers call “the back house,” and it earns the name. Almost 1,000 sq ft with a large game room and living space, a separate workshop/storage room, and its own window heat and air. The family’s drum kit lives out there right now, which tells you that it’s far enough from the main house that nobody’s asking anyone to turn it down. The back house is already a private studio or game room as it sits. Add some plumbing and the conversation gets bigger: a guest suite with its own kitchenette/bath, a short-term rental for income, or a hobby studio with a real utility sink. The square footage is already there. Talk to the city about what’s possible. The hard part is done.

The neighborhood is the kind that’s hard to manufacture. Long-established, genuinely connected, the sort of place where people actually know each other and act like it. That doesn’t happen overnight, and it doesn’t show up on a spec sheet.

Fiber internet means everybody’s online and nobody’s waiting. Stream, game, work from home: it all runs the way you’d expect at a nice hotel, except you don’t have to check out. Kickapoo Street is close enough that a dinner decision takes longer than the drive.

The best way to understand this home is to walk it. Schedule your showing before someone else does.