His father was a school friend of Spencer Penrose in Philadelphia and a business partner in Colorado.

[1] In 1934, he married Vesta H. Wood (1900-1983), who was an archaeologist who graduated from Vassar College and Oxford University.

The McAllister House Museum in Colorado Springs has a plaque at its front door in her honor.

[1] Tutt was the secretary of the Broadmoor Hotel and Land Company until Penrose's death in 1939, when he became president of The Broadmoor, owned by Penrose's charitable organization, El Pomar Foundation.

Over the years, the statue has been decorated in various ways, and they have done so with affection, imagination and a sense of humor.