This ornate home, on the southeast corner of High and Pine Streets in Butler, was built in the early 1900’s by Benjamin Moore. Moore came from Rich Hill and bought the lumber yard from R.J. Hurley. The Yard was located just south of Butler’s old City Hall. Moore’s wife was a sister of H.G. Cook, proprietor of the American Clothing House.
After Moore’s death, his son managed the Yard known as Logan-Moore Lumber. He sold the house to William Walton, who with his wife, left their expansive home at Pine and Delaware to move up to the “Hill”. Mr. Walton died and his wife moved to Kansas City, selling the home to Deacon (Oscar) Heinlein. Heinlein Mercantile Store on the Square sold just about everything. Heinleins added a tennis court to the east of the house, near the stables in the 1920’s. After their deaths, the house was purchased by John Underwood.
Underwood remodeled the house, eliminating the wide porches and opened Culver-Underwood Funeral Home there. Underwood later purchased the stone house built by William Duvall at Ft. Scott and High Streets and moved the funeral home there. This house was then occupied by the Shrout family and destroyed by fire.
