Listed in Arkansas Register of Historic Places on 12/05/18
Summary
The McNutt House and the McNutt Cottage sit on property once owned by early area settler Jacob Barkman who purchased the surrounding land in May of 1845. [1] Various wills show that the land then passed from Jacob Barkman to his son James E. M. Barkman in 1852, and on his death to his wife Harriet Barkman. [2] On her death, the land passed to their son Walter Eugene Barkman.In 1920, W. E. Barkman deeded a small parcel of the Barkman holdings, next to the home built by James E. M. Barkman to Nannie Miller.[3]This land was a part of Lots 15, 16, 21, and 22 on the Hardy & Barkman survey of 1851.
Nannie Millie then deeded the land to her sister Alice Miller McNutt in June 1923, and the structures now known as the McNutt House and the McNutt Cottage were built between 1923 and 1925.[4]Alice Miller McNutt, widow of Samuel Ralston McNutt, a prominent Arkadelphia businessman, built at least five houses in Arkadelphia after her husband’s 1905 death, several designed by Little Rock architect Charles Thompson.Also, Alice McNutt was also partially responsible for the choice of Charles Thompson for the design of the Arkadelphia Public Library in 1903 which was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. Alice McNutt sold the McNutt House and Cottage to Dr. Hendric Arnold Ross, a prominent local physician, in January of 1925.The McNutt House would continue to serve as the Ross family home for the next 20 years.After the death of Dr. Ross, his wife Pamelia Potts Ross and their daughter Ada Imogene Ross moved into the McNutt Cottage, where they would continue to live until the turn of the 21st century.
The McNutt House and Cottage are being nominated to the Arkansas Register of Historic Places under Criterion A, with local significance, for their association with the development of the town of Arkadelphia, specifically the role of Alice McNutt as an architectural patron.The McNutt House and Cottage are also being nominated under Criterion A, with local significance, for their association with the history of Health and Medicine in the city of Arkadelphia as the home of prominent local doctor, Hendric Arnold Ross.
Elaboration
The city of Arkadelphia has served as the county seat for Clark County since 1842.[5]Before being selected as the county seat, the town had grown out of an early settlement and trading post founded by William Blakeley in 1808.The early community in the area was known as Blakeleytown.Soon, as the town developed and areas were officially platted, the town of Arkadelphia was created by the end of the 1830s.The area had long been a center for local agricultural production and trade due to its location along the Ouachita River and then the introduction of rail and road systems.The city saw periods of slow growth before the Civil War.After the war, the introduction of the railroad and several centers devoted to learning helped to transform the town into an important regional center for transportation, commerce, and education.By the first decades of the 20th century, education and wood product manufacturing were the main employers in the city.
Barkman Family
Jacob Barkman(1784-1852) built the first cotton gin and the first steamboat in the area that would eventually be the city of Arkadelphia, opening commerce to and from New Orleans.[6] His house between the Caddo River and the Southwest Trail (later known as Military Road) served as the first post office in the area, with Barkman serving as postmaster. Jacob Barkman amassed a fortune in his time; at his death in 1852 he owned over 22,000 acres of land and was the wealthiest man in Clark County.James E. M. Barkman (1819 – 1865) followed his father, Jacob Barkman, into farming and politics.[7] In 1860 he began construction of a home north of the central commercial core of Arkadelphia in an area that would become a prominent residential area just south of the campuses of what would become Ouachita Baptist University and Henderson State University, on land he inherited from his father.[8]James E. M. Barkman and his wife Harriet had four daughters and two sons; Walter Eugene Barkman was born in the family’s new house and would live there until his death. The Walter E. Barkman House was sold to Henderson State University in 1968, and placed in the National Register of Historic Places in July of 1974.[9]
Walter Eugene Barkman (1862 – 1959) married Florence Russ in 1900.[10]His first employment was in the construction of the Iron Mountain railroad bridge across the Ouachita River; later he went to work for the S. R. McNutt Supply Company as a bookkeeper.When the Elk Horn Bank and Trust Company was founded in 1884, he was its first cashier and served in that capacity until 1938, when he was elected president of the bank.[11]Interestingly, the Elk Horn Bank was named for an elk head mounted on the wall of S. R. McNutt’s store.[12]The bank also opened its first office in the McNutt General Store at Main and Seventh streets. It quickly outgrew this location and moved to East Main Street, then in 1903 to Sixth and Main. The bank was incorporated in 1903 with S. R. McNutt serving as president and W. E. Barkman as the cashier.[13]The Elk Horn Bank has been closely identified with the commercial and civic development of Arkadelphia, helping to finance the building of the courthouse, the Ouachita River Bridge, the first paving district in the city, and many school and church projects.[14] It weathered many panics, recessions, and depressions. In 1988 Southern Development Bancorporation purchased controlling interest in Elk Horn Bank.The professional relationship between S. R. McNutt and W. E. Barkman most certainly extended to their families and may be one of the main reasons that a section of the original Barkman property in a very affluent neighborhood was sold to the Miller/McNutt family for the construction of a new large scale home.
McNutt Family
Samuel Ralston McNutt (1853-1905), known as Rush McNutt because of the hectic pace he kept, was born in Mississippi, and moved with his family to Clark County, Arkansas, in 1865.[15]He was the eldest of seven children, and as his father was an invalid he was called upon to support his family. He walked the countryside peddling knives, thimbles, and scissors from a handbag, carefully saving his profits for his own business. In 1873 he began clerking for a store in Arkadelphia and on February 28, 1874, he opened a grocery store with a capital stock of $650.[16] He soon extended his stock by adding a line of general merchandise, and eventually, farm implements. He became a prominent cotton dealer, and was a founder and principal stockholder in Elk Horn Bank, serving as its president until his death in 1905. He owned a great deal of property in Arkadelphia and a large cattle ranch in Nebraska.[17] He was liberal in his donations to public enterprises and an active advocate of local educational efforts in the public schools, in Arkadelphia Methodist College, and Ouachita Baptist College.[18]S. R. McNutt married Naomi Young (1852-1888) in 1877 and had two children, Lizzie (1878-1965) and William (1882-1926).[19]Following Naomi’s death in 1888, S. R. McNutt married Alice Miller in 1890.Their son, Samuel Ralston McNutt, Jr., was born in August 1901 and died in December of the same year. Samuel Ralston McNutt died in August of 1905 in Los Angeles, California, where he had gone in hopes of recovering from tuberculosis. [20]
Alice Miller (1861-1947) was nine when her mother died; her half-sister Nannie was fifteen; her younger sister Ella was two.[21] Their father Joseph Miller married for a third time in 1872 and the family moved to Arkadelphia.After his third wife’s death in 1883, Alice Miller started caring for her father, a task she would do for the next two decades.In 1890, at the age of 29, Alice married Samuel Ralston McNutt and began caring for his two children, Lizzie, 12, and William, 8. Alice was 40 when her son Samuel Ralston McNutt, Jr., was born in August 1901; sadly the child lived only four months.
Alice Miller McNutt’s two sisters, Nannie and Ella, never married and lived with or near Alice most of their lives. All three are buried in the McNutt family plot in Rose Hill Cemetery, with matching headstones. Alice’s father Joseph Miller died in the McNutt home in 1903, after a long illness. [22] S. R. “Rush” McNutt was in failing health at the time and he and Alice went first to Arizona, and then to Los Angeles, in hopes that a different climate might prove beneficial.[23] It did not and S. R. McNutt died in California in August of 1905. Alice buried him in the McNutt plot in Rose Hill Cemetery, beside his first wife, Naomi.
During the time of her marriage to Samuel Ralston McNutt, Alice was deeply involved in the community life of Arkadelphia. She was a charter member of the Women's Library Association, founded in 1897.[24]She also served as the first librarian, keeping the library books in her home. Newspaper articles frequently mention her efforts to raise money for a library building, which was completed in 1903 after a design prepared by Little Rock architect Charles Thompson.[25] That library still serves Clark County and was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
In 1910, at the age of 49, after the death of her son, her father, and her husband, Alice McNutt left the country. She resided in Paris for a year.[26]She applied for a visa to live in Russia; however, she returned to the United States on the SS Finland in November 1911, arriving in New York December 1.During the time Alice was away, Ella lived with distant relatives in Colorado and Nannie held a teaching position in Texarkana.[27] Alice joined Nannie in Texarkana for a while on her return, but by 1920 the three sisters were together again in Arkadelphia; renting a home near to neighbors W. E. and Florence Barkman.[28]
On January 15, 1920, W. E. Barkman sold “a part of Lots 15, 16, 21, and 22 in the Hardy & Barkman Survey” to Nannie Elizabeth Miller, for the sum of $1,400.Nannie held title to the property until June 6, 1923, when she sold it to her sister Alice McNutt for the sum of $1.It is most likely that the professional connections between the McNutt and Barkman families was a major factor in the sale of the land that would soon be subdivided and developed as a new residential street next door to the Barkman family home in an affluent neighborhood of Arkadelphia.By 1928, with the completion of the McNutt House and Cottage, a new street had also been cut between the Barkman House and the McNutt property to the south.This new street was named McNutt Street.[29]
The McNutt House was built under the direction of Alice McNutt and is the earliest surviving home identified with Alice McNutt.In a newspaper article from 1921, Alice McNutt, widow of S. R. McNutt, is noted as the director of a new large building project in Arkadelphia.This article may have been referring to the house now known as the McNutt House on McNutt Street as its description of a two-story residence doesn’t match any properties found on Barkman Street during that time period.As indicated by a news report from the Daily Arkansas Gazette of Little Rock on January 9, 1921:
Mrs. S. R. McNutt’s beautiful new two-story, $12,000 residence on Barkman street, next to J. R. Haygood’s home, is well under way and gives evidence of a pretty addition to the new group of residences that have sprung up in that part of the city during the past year.T. Emmett Nunn of Malvern is the contractor.[30]
No matter what property the above quoted article refers to, the mention of Alice McNutt’s role as the patron of a large new residence in Arkadelphia is yet more evidence of her role as a property developer in the residential area north of the commercial core of the town.Also, if this does refer to a different property, she is constructing two large-scale properties in under 5 years, with no apparent desire to live long-term in either property.
Surviving records in the Charles Thompson archive at the Old State House in Little Rock, Arkansas, include two drawings noted as designed for “Mrs. S. R. McNutt, Arkadelphia, Ark.”[31]These drawings may be from the early decades of the 20th century but no surviving residence or even possible location for these early house designs have been identified.These early drawings do have similarities with the Captain Henderson house located across 10th Street from the Barkman House, which may have served as an inspiration for Charles Thompson’s designs for Mrs. McNutt.The earlier home of the McNutt family, before the death of S. R. McNutt, has been noted as being located along Main Street, just west of the S. R. McNutt storefronts.[32]This area has undergone several waves of transformation since the early 20th century so the original McNutt family home was most likely torn down many decades ago to make way for new commercial development.
The Captain Charles Christopher Henderson House in Arkadelphia is a large Queen-Anne style home with later additions.[33]The house was originally built as a small cottage in 1876; however, several large-scale renovations and enlargements during the first few years of the 20th century have created an elaborate residential landmark.By 1906, the new large house was completed and would serve as the Henderson family home until 1910, when they moved to Texas.Subsequent families over the next decade then made new large-scale additions to the exterior, adding Craftsman and Neoclassical elements to the exterior.This large elaborate residence was the home of the Phillips family until 1978 when the property was sold to Henderson State University.Today the home is a bed and breakfast owned and operated by Henderson State University.
Local oral history notes that the McNutt Cottage was completed on the site first and Alice McNutt and her sisters lived in the cottage while the larger house was under construction.It appears that Alice McNutt and her sisters only lived in the property for a short time before it was sold to Dr. Hendric Arnold Ross in January of 1925 for the sum of $11,000.[34]It is possible that the house and cottage were built as an investment property, as it appears that Alice McNutt had a history of building and then selling houses to fund the construction of the next project.In all, Alice McNutt has been identified with at least 5 possible large-scale residential building projects in this same neighborhood.This includes two possible early projects designed by Charles Thompson, this home, a Spanish Revival style home at 1030 Caddo Street from c. 1930, and a home designed by Irven D. McDaniel at 804 Hickory Street from 1935.[35]
Ross Family
Dr. Hendric Arnold Ross (1884 – 1942) bought the McNutt House and Cottage from Alice McNutt in January of 1925.Dr. Ross was 40 years old at the time, a family man with a wife and two young children who was well established as a prominent local physician and college physician for Henderson-Brown College. [36] Dr. H. A. Ross graduated from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia in 1912 and began his medical practice in Okolona where his father Dr. James S. Ross practiced.[37] While living in Okolona, he married Pamelia Josephine Potts in 1916 and soon the couple’s son Wallis Arnold was born. In 1919 the Ross family moved to Arkadelphia and in 1925 they moved into the McNutt House.[38]
The spacious McNutt House served as a hub of activity for family, friends, and the townspeople of Arkadelphia. A third child, daughter Ada Imogene Ross, was born in a corner bedroom upstairs during the first year; the house was filled with the sounds of children – a baby, five-year-old Beth, and eight-year-old Wallis. The sound of music also filled the house, a Cable & Sons grand piano soon graced the living room. In 1930 there was no music director or band at Henderson College, and students interested in music came to the Ross home to practice around that piano, led by the newly arrived manager of the J. C. Penney store, an accomplished violinist from Boston.[39] They played Sousa Marches and classical overtures; choir members from the Methodist Church also came to sing with the group. The house was situated just between Henderson College and Ouachita Baptist College, and students from the varsity football team often stopped in for a bandage change, or just to talk football; Dr. Ross officially served as physician for Henderson College.[40]
Pamelia Ross’s niece, Mary Johnson, who lived in Oklahoma, stayed in the Ross home during her college years at Henderson and she wrote in detail of the nature of the household, naming students who boarded there.[41]Tom Johnson, Jimmy Skyler, and Sid McMath, who later went on to serve two terms as governor of Arkansas (1949-1953) were just a few of the students who shared a room in the Ross home. Dr. H. A. Ross’s first office was above Merchants and Planters bank downtown. Later he moved to 408 Clay Street, across from the courthouse, where he had an office and a four-bed infirmary. There he practiced until his death in 1942.All of these early offices have since been either demolished or drastically altered.He also practiced medicine for students at the nearby Henderson-Brown College, now Henderson State University, from his home which was nearer the campus than his downtown office.
As the Great Depression spread across the nation in the 1930s, people couldn’t pay their doctors, but Dr. Ross never refused anyone.[42] Conscientious patients brought chickens, eggs, milk, and fresh vegetables to his office. Quite often, he didn’t get paid at all. Ledgers kept in his own hand testify to the hardships.Dr. Ross recorded in his ledgers the purpose of each visit – he examined babies, he gave shots, he even prescribed glasses. He performed tonsillectomies and treated strep throat, lumbago, ears, an abscess on an arm. He put a cast on a patient’s foot and x-rayed a patient’s leg. The last entry in his 1942 ledger notes that Mr. Weiman came in for an office visit on Wednesday, November 25. In failing health himself, Dr. Arnold Ross died on December 18, 1942.Many artifacts from his office were donated to the Clark County Historical Museum in recent years, others passed down to family members.
Pamelia Josephine Potts (1892-1973) was fifth of the seven children born to James and Ada Bradley Potts. An accomplished seamstress and cook, she was known to prepare and deliver meals to the Ross Infirmary when patients were hospitalized there.[43]When Dr. Ross died in 1942, son Wallis was a student in the University of Arkansas Medical School, daughter Beth was on the faculty of Stuttgart High School, and daughter Ada Imogene was a student at Arkadelphia High School. Pamelia Ross soon made the decision to sell the large McNutt House and move next door into the McNutt Cottage, which the family had owned since 1925.The cottage had been used for many years as both a rental property, and a stopping spot for various family members who had a temporary need.
On November 9, 1944, Pamelia Ross sold the McNutt House to Ira Butler Fuller, Jr., and his wife Marian Fuller for $11,000.Ira Fuller, Jr., (1914-1995) was originally from Hot Spring County, Arkansas.[44]By 1940, Fuller, Jr., was married to wife Marian and both were living in Arkadelphia where he was the proprietor of a retail drug store known as Fuller’s Drug Store at 6th and Main Street.[45]In 1963, Fuller remodeled two buildings in downtown Arkadelphia to create a drug store of 4,000 square feet, one of the largest in Arkansas.This pharmacy business was purchased by Percy Malone who now owns 19 pharmacies across the state of Arkansas.After the death of Ira Fuller, his widow Marian Fuller eventually sold the McNutt House to Trey C. Berry and Katherine S. Berry. The Ira Butler Fuller, Jr., family owned the property from November 1944 until February 2003, marking the longest period of ownership to date of the home.
After selling the McNutt House in 1944, Pamelia Ross moved into the McNutt Cottage with her daughter Ada Imogene who was then 19 years old and a student at the nearby Henderson College. It was at this time that the exterior changes to the McNutt Cottage were made.Pamelia Ross had both the front and rear porches enclosed and put hardwood floors throughout the house. The living room-dining room was large enough for the Cable & Sons grand piano, which Ada Imogene had used for her music lessons growing up, and which had served Henderson students and Methodist choir members coming to the McNutt House in the 1930s.The piano still remains in the McNutt Cottage today. It is also thought that Pamelia Ross had the large trim put around the windows and doors in the formal living area of the house.Pamelia Ross would continue to live in the McNutt Cottage until her death in January 1973.
Ada Imogene Ross (1925-2010) was most fondly known as Ada Gene.[46]She was born in an upstairs bedroom in the McNutt House in 1925, shortly after her family moved into the home.When she was 19 she moved into the McNutt Cottage with her mother.Ada Ross was a well-known local musician, excelling in the piano and organ.She studied in the graduate program at the University of Texas School of Music.Ada Ross married Percy Shaver in Texas, where the couple adopted a daughter, Sally in 1963.After her divorce in 1970, Ada Ross returned to Arkadelphia where she moved back into the McNutt Cottage with her mother and daughter Sally.After Pamelia Ross’s death in 1973, Ada Ross continued to live in the cottage with her daughter as her mother had with her.Ada Ross worked as a bookkeeper at J. C. Penney for a time and she played the organ, or piano, at many Sunday services in Arkadelphia.When Sally graduated from Henderson and moved away in 1985, Ada Ross remained in the McNutt Cottage until 2008.In 2008 the McNutt Cottage was sold to the Hill family.The current owner, Linda Burton purchased the McNutt Cottage in 2016.
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[2]Area platted for Hardy and Barkman addition on 1 April 1857, containing lots 1-36. James E. M. Barkman to Harriet E. Barkman on 25 September 1865.
[3] Property transfer to Nannie Miller from W.E. and Florence Barkman and Mrs. L.C. McCabe.Including lots 15, 16, 21, 22.Filed 15 January 1920.
[4] Property transfer from Nannie Miller to Alice McNutt, 6 June 1923.
[5] Ray S. Granade, “Arkadelphia (Clark County),” Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture, Central Arkansas Library System, updated 22 August 2018, Web, www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net, Accessed 1 October 2018.
[6] Wendy Richter, Ed., Clark County Arkansas:Past and Present, Arkadelphia, AR:Clark County Historical Association, 1992.p 323.
[7] Ed Baxter, James E. M. Barkman House, Arkadelphia, Arkansas, National Register Nomination, Files of the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program, Little Rock, Arkansas, Listed in the National Register of Historic Places 30 July 1974.
[8]Certificate 4747, dated 1 May 1845, and signed by President James K Polk, “does give and grant” the South half of the Northwest quarter of Section seventeen, in Township seven South, of Range nineteen west, in the District of Land subject to sale at Washington, Arkansas, containing eighty acres to Jacob Barkman, and his heirs and assigns, forever.”
[9]Baxter, James E. M. Barkman House, Arkadelphia, Arkansas, National Register Nomination.
[10]Richter, Clark County Arkansas:Past and Present, pp. 323-324.
[11] Ibid.
[12] Ibid.pp. 141-142.
[13] Ibid.
[14] Ibid.
[15] Allen B. Syler, et al, eds., Through the Eyes of Farrar Newberry:Clark County, Arkansas, Arkadelphia, AR:Clark County Historical Association, 2002, p 57-59.
[16] Ibid.
[17]Ibid.
[18]Ibid.
[19] Ibid.
[20]Ibid.
[21] United States Census Rolls, 1870, 1880.
[22] Obituary for Captain J. Miller, Siftings, Arkadelphia, Arkansas, 29 January 1903.
[23] Tilly Carter, “Legacies in Brick and Mortar:The Life and Works of Charles Thompson,” Clark County Historical Journal, 2002, Clark County Historical Association, p. 42.
[24]Syler, Through the Eyes of Farrar Newberry:Clark County, Arkansas, p. 158.
[25]Ibid.Carter, “Legacies in Brick and Mortar:The Life and Works of Charles Thompson,” pp. 42-43.
[26]Mrs. Alice McNutt, Passport Issued 1 June 1911, Paris, France, Ancestry.com. U.S. Passport Applications, 1795-1925 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2007.
[27]United States Census Rolls, 1910.
[28]United States Census Rolls, 1920.
[29] Sanborn Fire Insurance Company Map, Arkadelphia, Arkansas, 1928.
[30] Based on the surviving Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps of Arkadelphia from 1918 and 1928, there were no two story homes built on Barkman Street between 1918 and 1928.This article may have been referring to the newly cut “Church Street”, which would soon be renamed “McNutt Street”, that was located just to the side of the large Barkman House, a local Arkadelphia landmark.Also, the 1920 Census records note that J. R. Haygood, the head football coach for Henderson-Brown College, rented a property along Caddo Street.
[31]Charles Thompson Architectural Drawings, Old State House Museum, Little Rock, Arkansas.
[32]Syler, Through the Eyes of Farrar Newberry:Clark County, Arkansas, p 57.
[33] Holly Hope, Captain Charles C. Henderson House, Arkadelphia, Arkansas, National Register Nomination, Files of the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program, Little Rock, Arkansas, Listed in the National Register of Historic Places 24 August 1998.
[34]Alice McNutt sold “a part of Lots 15, 16, 21, and 22 in the Hardy & Barkman Survey” to Hendric Arnold Ross in January 1925, for the sum of $11,000.
[35] United States Cenus Rolls, 1930.Irven D. and I. Granger McDaniel Architectural Drawings Collection, Garland County Historical Society, Hot Springs, Arkansas.
[36]The Star, v. 19, 1923, Literary Societies of Henderson-Brown College, Arkadelphia, Arkansas.
[37]Richter, Clark County Arkansas:Past and Present, p. 161.
[38] Ibid.
[39] Mary Johnson Hawkings Hall, “My Memories of the Potts Family,” Manuscript, Personal Files of Sally Shaver Grizzard, Excerpts in the files of the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program, Little Rock, Arkansas.
[40]The Southern Standard, Newspaper, Arkadelphia, Arkansas, 30 September 1920, p 6.
[41] Hall, “My Memories of the Potts Family,”
[42]Personal records in possession of Sally Shaver Grizzard, daughter of Ada Imogene Ross Shaver; Ledgers from Ross practice 1936-1942; “My Memories of the Potts Family” by Mary Johnson Hawkins Hall; letters written by various family members; newspaper clippings, ect.
[43]Ibid.
[44] Ira Fuller, Jr., appears on the 1920 US Census as a five-year-old living in Hot Springs County, Arkansas, with his parents and seven siblings. His father’s occupation is shown as “Sawmill Worker.”
[45]By 1940, things had changed for Ira Butler Fuller Jr.; he was married and he and wife Marian were renting a home for $20 a month on Cherry Street in Arkadelphia according to the US Census records of that year.The WWII Draft Card he completed on October 16, 1940 is even more explicit. Wife Mrs Marian Boyle Fuller. Home address: 5th and Cherry, Arkadelphia. Work address: Fuller’s Drug Store, 6th and Main, Arkadelphia.
[46]Interviews with Sally Shaver Grizzard by Linda Burton, 2018.