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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]
Sod houses — vernacular dwellings with sod roofs; Pages in category "Sod houses" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may ...
The sod house near Cleo Springs is the only remaining sod house in Oklahoma that was built by settlers. [3] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. [1] The Sod House Museum (under the Oklahoma Historical Society) maintains the structure. [3] Museum building around the Sod House, April 2024
The Browns built their home with sod bricks and topped it with a grass roof. Western South Dakota was one of the last regions of the state to be settled by homesteaders, and the house is now one of the few remaining sod homes in the state. [3] The home is now open to visitors for tours and houses farm animals and prairie dogs on its grounds. [4]
Of the hundreds of sod houses that dotted the landscape in the Cherokee Outlet after it opened to settlement in 1893, the Page Soddy is one of the last remaining soddies. It is unusual in its use of a shingled hipped roof , rather than a flat grass roof, and in the plastered wall made from local materials.
The 30 inches (76 cm) walls of the house were built of native prairie grass and sod, held in place by hog wire. The L-shaped house, built 31-feet wide by 31 feet long, has three rooms with plastered and wallpapered walls. [2] [5] Originally the house had wooden floors, but in 1938 the floors were covered in cement. [5]
The original chimney was removed and replaced with a connecting doorway between the original house and the addition. The main entrance into the house was moved to the right, yet it remains on the original structure. [2] A third addition was added after 1893 on the north side, which gave the structure an L-shaped floor plan. It too was of frame ...
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.