{{Short description|Historic house in Kansas City, Missouri, US}} {{Use American English|date=September 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2026}} {{Infobox NRHP | image = William Chick Scarritt House.jpg | architect = John Wellborn Root | added = March 21, 1976 | location = Scarrit Renaissance, Kansas City, Missouri, US | refnum = 78001661 | caption = The William Chick Scarritt House in 2015 | built = 1888 | restored = 2017 | architecture = Châteauesque }} The '''William Chick Scarritt House''' at 3240 Norledge Avenue, is a historic house in Scarritt Renaissance, Kansas City, Missouri.
==History== The William Chick Scarritt House was designed in 1888 by John Wellborn Root in a Châteauesque style.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Flener |first=Matt |date=September 20, 2016 |title=Neighborhood hopes historic KC mansion can rebound after fire |url=https://www.kmbc.com/article/neighborhood-hopes-historic-kc-mansion-can-rebound-after-fire-3/3859814 |access-date=May 13, 2024 |website=KMBC |language=en}}</ref> It was built for lawyer William Chick Scarritt,<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=William Chick Scarritt Residence |url=https://kchistory.org/image/william-chick-scarritt-residence-2 |access-date=May 13, 2024 |website=Kansas City Public Library}}</ref> grandson of William Miles Chick, son of Nathan Scarritt, and father of Dorothy McKibbin.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Steeper |first=Nancy Cook |title=Gatekeeper to Los Alamos: Dorothy Scarritt McKibbin |date=2003 |publisher=Los Alamos Historical Society |isbn=978-0-941232-30-2 |location=Los Alamos, N.M |pages=13–14}}</ref> William was the police commissioner of Kansas City from 1896 to 1897, and president of the Board of Park Commissioners in 1922.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Steeper |first=Nancy Cook |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Gatekeeper_to_Los_Alamos/ppsFAAAACAAJ?hl=en |title=Gatekeeper to Los Alamos: Dorothy Scarritt McKibbin |date=2003 |publisher=Los Alamos Historical Society |isbn=978-0-941232-30-2 |pages=9–10 |language=en}}</ref>
It was a nursing home from the 1940s to the 2000s.<ref name=":0" />
The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 21, 1976.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |date=March 1976 |title=NATIONAL REGISTER OF IDSTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM |url=https://mostateparks.com/sites/mostateparks/files/Scarritt%2C%20William%20Chick%2C%20House.pdf |access-date=May 13, 2024 |website=National Park Service}}</ref> It was added to the Kansas City Register of Historic Places in 1983.<ref name=":0" />
The house was renovated in 2012. In the morning of September 12, 2016, the house caught fire.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Cronkleton |first=Robert A. |date=September 19, 2016 |title=Fire heavily damages historic William Chick Scarritt home in Northeast KC |url=https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article102683002.html |access-date=May 13, 2024 |work=The Kansas City Star}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web |date=September 19, 2016 |title=Historic Scarritt Mansion destroyed by fire |url=https://www.kmbc.com/article/historic-scarritt-mansion-destroyed-by-fire/3859794 |access-date=May 13, 2024 |website=KMBC |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=admin |date=September 19, 2016 |title=Fire devastates historic Northeast mansion |url=https://northeastnews.net/pages/fire-devastates-historic-northeast-mansion/ |access-date=May 13, 2024 |website=Northeast News |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=September 19, 2016 |title=Fire breaks out at historic home in northeast KC |url=https://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/crews-battle-early-morning-house-fire-near-kansas-city-museum |access-date=May 13, 2024 |website=KSHB 41 Kansas City News |language=en}}</ref> In 2017, neighbors of the mansion helped rebuild it.<ref>{{Cite web |date=June 30, 2017 |title=Neighbors Help Rebuild Iconic Scarritt House In Historic Northeast Kansas City |url=https://www.kcur.org/community/2017-06-29/neighbors-help-rebuild-iconic-scarritt-house-in-historic-northeast-kansas-city |access-date=May 13, 2024 |website=KCUR - Kansas City news and NPR |language=en}}</ref>
The house is two stories with a basement. It has a limestone foundation, brownstone walls, and a hip roof.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" />
thumb|3240 Norledge Avenue
==See also== * Reverend Nathan Scarritt Home * Pendleton Heights, Kansas City
==References== {{Reflist}}
{{Historic Houses of Kansas City, Missouri}} {{Kansas City, Missouri}}
Category:Houses in Kansas City, Missouri Category:National Register of Historic Places in Kansas City, Missouri