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The William R. Dowse House, more commonly known as the Dowse Sod House, is a sod house in Custer County in the central portion of the state of Nebraska, in the Great Plains region of the United States. It was built in 1900 and occupied until 1959.
The Wallace W. Waterman Sod House near Big Springs, Nebraska, United States, is a sod house built in 1886. It was modified in 1925 for continued use, including a layer of concrete being applied to the exterior walls. It was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1995.
Gustav Rohrich Sod House Schematic and details. The Gustav Rohrich Sod House was a sod house located in Bellwood, Nebraska, United States.It was built in 1883 on 80 acres (32 ha) of land by Gustav Rohrich (1849—1938), an immigrant from Austria, for himself, his wife and three children.
1895 house expanded into a hotel in 1914—when Long Pine boomed as a major railroad terminus—exhibiting an old-fashioned "longitudinal block" layout more typical of Nebraska's earliest hotels. [26] Now a local history museum. [27]
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Custer County, Nebraska. ... Two story sod house built in 1883. Demolished in March, 1972 [7 ...
Nebraska folklorist Roger Welsch conducted a detailed analysis of Butcher's sod-house photos, including furnishings, farm equipment, animals, etc., for his 1968 Sod Walls, [21] which initiated present-day investigations of sod-house construction and living. [50]
A sod farm structure in Iceland Saskatchewan sod house, circa 1900 Unusually well appointed interior of a sod house, North Dakota, 1937. The sod house or soddy [1] was a common alternative to the log cabin during frontier settlement of the Great Plains of Canada and the United States in the 1800s and early 1900s. [2]
Toadstool Geologic Park is located in the Oglala National Grassland in far northwestern Nebraska. It is operated by the United States Forest Service. It contains a badlands landscape and a reconstructed sod house. [1] The park is named after its unusual rock formations, many of which resemble toadstools.