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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 ...
When they had time, they would build a sod house. The farmer would use a plow to cut the sod into bricks 1 by 2 feet (0.30 by 0.61 m), which were then piled up to form the walls. [ 59 ] The sod strips were piled grass-side down, staggered in the same way as brickwork, in three side-by-side rows, resulting in a wall over 3 feet (0.91 m) thick.
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]
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 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]
Sod houses were a popular construction choice in the early 1900s by the early homesteaders to Saskatchewan and were similar to an earth sheltering type of house. Whereas many earth sheltering houses were built into hills, a 'soddie' had the base dug down about 3 feet (0.91 m) below the residence square footage area. A layer of buffalo, oxen or ...
The Jackson–Einspahr Sod House near Holstein, Nebraska, United States, is a sod house that was built in phases between 1881 and 1910. [2] It was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 2006.