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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]
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] The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January ...
Dugout home near Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940 Coober Pedy dugout, Australia. A dugout or dug-out, also known as a pit-house or earth lodge, is a shelter for humans or domesticated animals and livestock based on a hole or depression dug into the ground.
The Sod House was built by Marshal McCully in 1894. [3] Sod houses were constructed by settlers of southern and western Oklahoma Territory because there was not enough timber to build wooden houses. [4] The sod house near Cleo Springs is the only remaining sod house in Oklahoma that was built by settlers. [3]
At the beginning of that year, he was living in a dugout just south of his parents’ farm; by April 1900, a sod house was under construction, to be occupied by the couple. [33] John Murphy was an experienced builder of sod houses, and the William Dowse house was built with his aid and that of neighbors and friends. [34]
The Minor Sod House, also known as Minor Post Office, near McDonald, Kansas, is a sod house that was built c. 1907.. It is a one-story building with a gabled rectangular section about 48 by 19 feet (14.6 by 5.8 m) with 2-foot-thick (0.61 m) sod brick walls, plus a 16-by-10-foot (4.9 by 3.0 m) wood-frame lean-to section, all covered by a corrugated, galvanized metal roof.
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.