The Jetson's House

Rising above the trees on the edge of Tulsa, a strange and wonderful shape hovers in the sky—a round, flying-saucer home perched on a slender tower. Locals call it the Jetsons House, and from a distance it looks less like something you could live in and more like a cartoon daydream come to life. Yet inside its futuristic shell, a very real story unfolds—one of love, loss, and a promise kept.

The Jetsons House was the vision of Joe Damer, a welder who wanted to build something extraordinary for his wife. Inspired by a 1960s postcard of a space-age home in Arizona, Damer set out to create a treetop escape where life could feel lifted above the everyday. Piece by piece, he crafted the structure by hand, anchoring a circular pod atop a 44-foot concrete column. His wife passed away before the project was finished, but Damer continued, determined to honor her dream. What he built was unlike anything else in Oklahoma: a house that seemed to float.

To reach the living quarters, you step into an elevator at the base of the tower. As the doors open above, the circular floorplan spreads out around you in glowing arcs of glass. The 1,386 square feet contain two bedrooms and three bathrooms, but numbers hardly capture the feeling of the place. Every wall curves. Windows wrap in a 360-degree embrace of Tulsa’s skyline and surrounding woods. The balcony, suspended in mid-air, makes you feel as if you could step right into the clouds.

The house has all the practical touches—an updated kitchen, modern baths, even a discreet garage tucked below—but it carries something intangible too. It feels like stepping into the future imagined in the past, a time when people believed space-age living was just around the corner. And in many ways, Damer made that dream real.

When it eventually went up for sale, the Jetsons House didn’t linger on the market. It sold almost immediately, destined for new life as a one-of-a-kind Airbnb, ensuring that more people could step inside and share in its strangeness and beauty.

To look at it today is to see more than steel and glass. It’s to see a promise—one man’s vow transformed into architecture, a personal love story written across Tulsa’s skyline. The Jetsons House hovers there still, a reminder that sometimes the wildest dreams really do get built.