Physicians and other providers are the front line individuals dealing with you as a patient, and with our knowledgeable staff of providers and physicians as guides, we have done our best to furnish WCCH with state-of-the-art equipment. This investment enables you, the patient, to obtain the very best care right here in your community setting. Serving you through our Webster County Clinic is Dr. Michele Durr. Look for more information on our Clinic page. Couple these knowledgeable providers and physicians with state-of-the-art equipment and a caring staff, and it should be obvious that WCCH will confidently and capably handle the present and future needs of patients in our community.

WCCH has redefined the concept of the very best service to our patients in the best way we know how by offering the professional services of physical therapists, cardiologists, surgeons, orthopedists, and urologists.

The Webster County Courthouse is a "County Citadel" type courthouse with Second Renaissance Revival architecture that was built in 1914. It is one of ten Nebraska courthouses designed by William F. Gernandt. Its design is similar to Gernandt's for the Dawson County Courthouse, which was built during 1913-14. Both are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The courthouse is two stories tall with brownish brick (actually "Goldenrod Brick", from Omaha's Sunderland Brothers) walls, and with limestone trim. It sits on a raised basement made of rusticated brick and Bedford limestone.

Its NRHP nomination describes the main architectural feature of the courthouse:

The architect has expanded upon a form he used for his Dawson County Courthouse, stone-trimmed brick arcades between pilasters. For the Webster County Courthouse the arcades have become the dominant design feature, and arcaded pavilions occur on the south, east, and west facades. The round-arched brick arcades trimmed in stone spring from stone capitals of relatively simple brick pilasters. The arcade consists of eight arches on the main facade, and three on the sides where it projects more from the wall surface than does the main arcade. Tall and slightly arched parapets have a dentiled stone course that follows this arched shape. Below is a metal cornice featuring mutules with a row of dentils below. The forms further call attention to the arcades.

It was listed on the National Register in 1981. It was deemed significant for its architecture and for its role "as the focal point for the administration of local government and institutions in Webster County. It is a good example of public architecture in the community and contains good examples of design features and facilities distinctive to its design and use as a courthouse."

It is one of a number of NRHP-listed properties associated with Willa Cather and a scene from Cather's Pulitzer Prize winning novel One of Ours takes place in the Courthouse. 

More information and references (including the NRHP descritption): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webster_County_Courthouse_(Nebraska)

The following services and more are available by contacting this center:
 

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432 N Elm St
Red Cloud, NE 68970
Ph#: 402-746-3708
fax: 402-746-3708
 

The Childhood Home, the treasure of our restored buildings, contains many family artifacts including furniture, canned goods, prints and artwork, and family photographs and books. Grandma Boak's room is exactly as described in "Old Mrs. Harris." Upstairs, a "story within itself," is young Willa's (and Thea Kronborg's in The Song of the Lark) small attic bedroom; Willa wallpapered this room herself, taking the wallpaper as pay for her work at Dr. Cook's drug store. The same rose-covered wallpaper is there today.

The Childhood Home was donated to the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial and lovingly restored by Dr. Wilbur Bennett and his wife, Mildred Bennett, who founded the WCPM. Later, that organization would become the Willa Cather Foundation. 

The Willa Cather Foundation Bookstore offers an extensive collection of books by and about Willa Cather, as well as select books by regional authors. Shop the wide selection of prints and photos, posters, videos, apparel, and Cather memorabilia. Be sure to pick up some of the beautiful, hand-crafted domestics made by the Willa Cather Foundation tour guides.

The Willa Cather Memorial Prairie is a botanical treasure consisting of 612 acres of never-been-plowed native prairie. The Willa Cather Foundation is working to return this land to its 19th century conditions, a time before the encroachment of man and foreign plant species.

The importance of the prairie in shaping America's art, history, and culture has been lost to much of the world. Of the millions of acres of grasslands that once covered the continent, only a small percentage remains. In order to protect the last American prairies, extraordinary efforts must be made not only to preserve them, but to bring visitors to the prairie, to teach them the importance of this special ecosystem. As the largest relict prairie in six counties, the Willa Cather Memorial Prairie is the perfect setting for teaching in nature.

Birders will enjoy our special location which features many grassland species, including eastern and western meadowlarks, eastern and western king birds, upland plovers, wild turkeys, bobolinks and other New World blackbird species, vesper sparrows and their many related grassland sparrows, wood ducks and other migratory birds, and greater prairie chickens. The Cather Prairie is listed as a National Birding Site and is a partner site of the Chicken Dance Trail. We are also partners in the Great Plains Ecotourism Coalition.

The Cather Prairie also boasts an ever-changing tapestry of native grasses, flowers, and forbs. Some of our most notable species include big and little bluestem, side-oats, hairy, and blue grama grasses, indian and switch grasses, as well our native cool-season buffalo grass. The wildflower season stretches from April through October, beginning with the sedges and fringed puccoons, and finishing big with ten-petal mentzelia and several varieties of sunflowers and goldenrod. In between, primroses, asters, native thistles, prairie coneflower, echinacea, dalea, ironweed, and many others grace the edges of our visitor trails. 

Carpet, Vinyl, Laminate, Luxury Tile, Hardwood, & Engineered Wood, Sleep Haven Mattress, Dream Place Mattress, Appliances, & Furniture.

The Red Cloud location is an affiliate of the Hastings YWCA. Contact Cindy or Val for more information.