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Photograph of Harvey P. Sutton House
Photograph by Ammodramus, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

H. P. Stutton House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“Sutton House, is a six-bedroom, 4,000-square-foot (370 m2) Frank Lloyd Wright designed Prairie School home at 602 Norris Avenue in McCook, Nebraska. Although the house is known by her husband's name, Eliza Sutton was the driving force behind the commissioning of Wright for the design in 1905-1907 and the construction of the house in 1907-1908.”

Wikipedia article Harvey P. Sutton House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 8 National Register listings published here for Red Willow County · listed in 1978 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Stutton, H. P., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 602 Norris Ave., McCook, 69001
  • When was it listed? May 1978
  • Category. building
  • City. McCook city
  • Architectural style. Prairie School architecture
  • Architect. Frank Lloyd Wright
  • National Register reference number. 78001708 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

2 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of H. P. Stutton House between 2003 and 2018, burning about 201 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 March 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined200 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named
20 October 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresNebraska Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Red Willow County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of H. P. Stutton House: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Mccook West Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Red Willow County

Storms near this property

5 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names McCook, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1993 and 1996: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 funnel cloud. The reports record 1 injury. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1994Thunderstorm WindMcCook1 hurt, $500,000A Walmart store was damaged by strong winds. An eleven year old boy standing near a fireworks stand in the parking lot was thrown 40 yards and injured slightly with scrapes and bruises.
August 1995Thunderstorm WindMcCook-Six-inch diameter tree branches were downed.
May 1993Thunderstorm WindMcCook-Thunderstorm outflow winds gusted to 58 mph, but caused no damage.
May 1996Funnel CloudMccook-no account filed
August 1995HailMcCook-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Red Willow County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

5 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Red Willow County Courthouseunder 500 feet1990
Senator George William Norris Houseunder 500 feet1967
McCook YMCAunder 500 feet2000
McCook Public-Carnegie Library0.1 miles1985
Keystone Hotel0.4 miles2001

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 78001708 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Red Willow CountyAll 8 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.