Harvey P Sutton House

This is a private residence so please treat it as such. If you’re an architecture nerd like I am, a quick stop here to check out the design and lines isn’t the worst thing you can do. I had to fight all my power to not go knock on the door to get a peek inside. I mean, who can believe there is a Frank Lloyd Wright home in McCook, Neb.
The Harvey P. Sutton House, also known as the H.P. Sutton House, is a six-​bedroom, 4,000-square-foot 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.
Harvey had left Chicago not long before Frank Lloyd Wright arrived in that burgeoning metropolis, yet 20 years later he and Eliza would become Wright’s clients. The Suttons relocated to McCook in southern Nebraska in 1889, soon after their son Harold was born. Part of the lure of McCook was an opportunity for Harvey to lead the prestigious C.B.& Q. Railroad Concert Band, headquartered there but known throughout the state. The Pawnee Native Americans who had previously occupied the land had been forced to give up the Republican River valley in 1833, but McCook wasn’t founded on its banks until 1882 when the railroad came through. The choice of McCook as a major point on the railroad, and as the headquarters of the concert band, were both due to its being midway from Omaha to Denver.
Mr. Sutton led the band from 1889 – 1924, but although he enjoyed his musical sideline, he needed to earn more money. He followed the example of his brother, Benjamin, who had previously established a successful jewelry business in Dexter, Michigan. Harvey prospered as McCook’s only jewelry store proprietor, later taking his son Harold into the business as his partner in 1908.
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