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Gaylord Sumner Residence
Quentin Sutley House 11. 599 2 Street
nd
10. 601 S First Street

Built 1889
Built early 1900s
Architectural
Architectural Style: Style: Queen
Queen Anne Anne with
Colonial
Revival
Quentin Sutley was influence
born and raised in
Fort Pierre. Sutley
moved back to Fort Originally, the
Pierre in 1946 to house was a small one and one-half-story cottage constructed in
open the Whiteway Lockers on Deadwood Avenue next to the 1889. The original cottage was raised to the 2nd floor level in
Stockgrowers Bank. Quentin and his wife bought this beautiful 1896-98 and a new first floor was inserted. The house is an
Queen Anne style home that had been built in the early 1900s. interesting transition between the Queen Anne and Colonial
Revival styles.
Quentin had entrepreneurial spirit and opened a TV and Appliance
store next to his butcher shop. He was very involved in the Gaylord Sumner came to Fort Pierre from Belfast, New York in
community, serving as Fire Chief of the Fort Pierre Volunteer Fire 1890. In association with C.L. Millett, Sumner organized the
Department. Quentin was a charter member and first president of Stockgrowers Bank that same year. He married Ida Ricketts,
Fort Pierre Lion’s Club and served on the Fort Pierre Chamber as whose mother owned a boarding house in town. Sumner owned
a board member and president. In 1968, he bought Fischer the Stanley County Abstract Company and lumberyard in Fort
Brothers building and their grocery lines, creating Sutley’s Town & Pierre.
Ranch Market. In 1976, he built a new store on Highway 83, now
owned by Lynn’s Dakotamart.

This house is on the National Register of Historic Places.

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