Sen. George Norris State Historic Site - McCook     2025 

  

This is a most fascinating place to visit.  It seems quite modest for the magnitude of who George Norris was.  He is probably most known for his time as a U. S. Representative and Senator.  Unknown to me is that he was a judge before his political career.  This house is sort of a biography of who he was and what his ideals were.  Talk to Harold, he is remarkably well-versed on George Norris.  

 Notice the rugs.  They are all over and in excellent shape for being a hundred years old.  They are obviously not what you find today in a discount store.

 

FDR stayed in this room.  The two chairs were actually used by the Secret Service during his stay.

This is a copy of the Rural Electrification Act and the actual pens used in it's signing by Franklin D Roosevelt.

 

Sen. Norris' wife, Ellie, was a seamstress.  If you stop in, take a look at the fine stitching in the many things she sewed.  I know nothing about sewing but to my untrained eye, I can't see how anyone can produce the fine detailed work she did.  Yet, there it is on display.

 This is a photo of the 58th Congress, 1903 - 1905.