Orcutt museum relics find new home

Several relics from the Orcutt Backyard Museum have found a new home at the Humboldt Historical Society Museum.

September 9, 2026 - 2:43 PM

Robbie Baker, left, and Todd Mintz bring an antique barber chair into the Humboldt Historical Society’s newest building in the 300 block of North Second Street. In the background is Jerry Whitworth. Six HHS members spent Monday morning transferring artifacts and antiques from the Humboldt Historical Preservation Society’s museum downtown. All contents are from the Orcutt Backyard Museum. Photo by Bob Johnson / Iola Register

HUMBOLDT — The Humboldt Historical Society Museum’s revival of the Orcutt Backyard Museum took another step forward Monday morning.

A half dozen board members spent about three hours transferring antiques, large and small, from the old Humboldt Union building downtown to a new addition at the HHS’s complex in the 300 block of North Second Street.

The private museum, the brainchild of Harvey and Velma Orcutt, was opened decades ago behind the Orcutt’s home at 1412 Bridge St.

Years prior, the Orcutts began collecting things associated with…

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