Built in Kansas. Built for Kansas.
Free State Builders owner Nate Hiatt grew up shaped by that legacy, in the same county, in the same community. He's still building here.
LUXE Kansas is now Free State Builders and the roots go deeper than the name ever did.
In 1884, a family stepped off a train in Nickerson, Kansas onto open prairie and decided to build something. George Washington Detter, a Union soldier turned schoolteacher, had brought his family west from Pennsylvania looking for land and a life worth making. They found it in Reno County, Kansas.
Within a generation the Detters were feeding a thousand head of cattle through a Kansas winter on their Salt Creek Township farm, topping the Kansas City markets, building homes, running a granary, and putting their name on a field where their boys won back-to-back state championships in 1912-13.
When Warren Clayton Detter's son went missing in France after the Argonne, Warren didn't wait for the Army. He got on a boat and went to find him himself. That's the kind of people they were.
Nate Hiatt grew up shaped by that legacy. The Detter name may not be on his door but the values are in everything he builds. Today he's still doing it in Reno County, the same community his family has called home for over a hundred years. Free State Builders isn't a new direction. It's the same work, finally wearing the right name.
Free State Builders. Built in Kansas. Built for Kansas.
