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Schutte Lumber Company is a lumberyard, mill, and contractor showroom on Southwest Boulevard in Kansas City, Missouri, founded in 1880 by S. Z. Schutte and operating from the same site ever since. It describes itself as Kansas City’s oldest independent commercial construction supply yard, and it remains privately owned and owner-operated — the founding family’s trust sold the business to Daniel C. Fuhrman in 1997, and Michael D. Fuhrman bought it in 2014 and serves as president. The yard specializes in heavy timbers, cedar, specialty hardwoods, siding and pattern profiles, and custom millwork run on an on-site mill.

Description

Schutte Lumber Company is a lumberyard and mill on Southwest Boulevard in Kansas City, Missouri, at the western edge of the Crossroads. The company presents itself as Kansas City’s oldest independent commercial construction supply yard, running a contractor and DIY showroom, a roughly 13-acre yard, and a specialty-products mill from a single location it has held since 1880.1

Its trade is not general big-box hardware. The yard’s reputation is in heavy timbers, cedar, engineered wood, domestic and specialty hardwoods, siding and pattern profiles, and custom interior and decorative trim mouldings — with an on-site mill that reproduces hard-to-match patterns as well as running stock profiles.12 That capability is the reason restoration contractors and architects use the yard: a mill that can match an existing moulding profile is uncommon in the metro. The company is also listed as a full-line Festool dealer, putting professional tools alongside the lumber.3

The Southwest Boulevard yard is old enough to appear in Kansas City’s documentary record of the interwar decades; the Pendergast Years project places a Schutte Lumber Company operation at 2931 Southwest Boulevard in an aerial photograph from about 1930, immediately adjacent to the present 3001 address.4 The Missouri Valley Special Collections photo archive also holds images of the company.5

Goods and services

  • Timbers — heavy structural and appearance-grade timbers, the product line the yard is best known for12
  • Cedar, siding, and pattern profiles12
  • Engineered wood products12
  • Domestic and specialty hardwoods12
  • Custom millwork — interior and decorative trim mouldings run on the on-site mill, including matching of discontinued or hard-to-find patterns1
  • Contractor and DIY showroom at the yard1
  • Tools — full-line Festool dealer3

History

S. Z. Schutte founded the company in 1880, and the business has operated from the same Southwest Boulevard ground since.1 It stayed in family ownership, latterly through a managed trust, until 1997, when Daniel C. Fuhrman purchased it. On July 1, 2014, Michael D. Fuhrman purchased the business and continues it as president under private ownership.16

The yard’s continuity through Kansas City’s building booms — the pre-war industrial expansion along Southwest Boulevard, the postwar suburban wave, and the current infill of the Crossroads and West Side — is unusual among metro lumberyards, most of which were absorbed by regional chains or closed. Payless Cashways, the KC-headquartered building-materials chain, is gone; Schutte is still cutting mouldings on Southwest Boulevard.4

Sources

Footnotes

  1. Schutte Lumber Company — official “About” page — asserts: founded 1880 by S. Z. Schutte; Kansas City’s oldest independent commercial construction supply yard; single location near the Crossroads District on a 13-acre lot held since 1880; family-owned and managed-trust ownership until 1997, when purchased by Daniel C. Fuhrman; Michael D. Fuhrman purchased the business July 1, 2014; contractor/DIY showroom, specialty products mill, and matching of hard-to-find patterns; product lines in timbers, cedar, siding and pattern profiles, engineered wood, domestic and specialty hardwoods, and custom trim mouldings. (Content read via search-engine extraction 2026-08-14 — see method note below.) ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10

  2. Schutte Lumber Company — products index — asserts: product categories carried (timbers, cedar, siding and pattern profiles, engineered wood, hardwoods, mouldings). ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  3. Locally — Schutte Lumber Company store profile — asserts: address 3001 Southwest Blvd, Kansas City, MO 64108; phone (816) 753-6262; hours Mon–Fri 7:00 a.m.–4:30 p.m., Sat 8:00 a.m.–noon, Sun closed; full-line Festool dealer. This is the freshest currently-operating evidence captured in this pass and is a retail-network directory rather than a first-party page; hours and phone should be re-confirmed against the company site before publication. ↩ ↩2

  4. The Pendergast Years (Kansas City Public Library) — Schutte Lumber Company subject page — asserts: a Schutte Lumber Company operation at 2931 Southwest Boulevard, documented in an aerial photograph dated to approximately 1930, within the project’s 1918–1941 scope. Does not assert founding year or ownership. ↩ ↩2

  5. KC History / Missouri Valley Special Collections, Kansas City Public Library — Schutte Lumber Company images — asserts: the company appears in the Missouri Valley Special Collections photographic record of Kansas City. ↩

  6. Michael Fuhrman — LinkedIn profile, listed as President, Schutte Lumber Company — asserts: Michael Fuhrman holds the title of president at Schutte Lumber Company. (Profile page is login-gated to full view; the title is visible in the public listing.) ↩

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On the record — ks.city/registry/schutte-lumber · record updated 2026-08-14