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Sod house rekindles prairie past

Brewster? Anyone interested in Kansas’s history and the pioneer days just might enjoy a visit to the Minor Family Sod House Bed and Breakfast. Located about 20 miles north of Brewster, the four-room ... read more

Waterman Sod House

You can truly experience some Nebraska history with a visit to a local landmark in Deuel County. The Waterman Sod House is known to many people from the Big Springs area. It's located in an area that ... read more

Kansas Sod-House Technique Seems to Have Deteriorated

This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not ... read more

Hunker down in your own hobbit house for $190K

McGuire constructed the 2,236-square-foot home as an energy-efficient type of “sod house” that uses arching steel culverts as its structural system. The two culverts are side by side—linked by a ... read more

Photo slideshow: Sod House Museum

The Sod House Museum, located eight miles north of Cleo Springs, Okla., is home to the last-standing sod house, which was built by homesteader Marshal McCully in 1894. The home still stands on the ... read more

Sod House Theater to perform in Mankato next week

MANKATO — Sod House Theater started off as an idea to perform “The Cherry Orchard” by Anton Chekhov in a mansion as the set in Minneapolis. Well, that was expensive. That’s when founders Darcey Engen ... read more

MINNIE FREEMAN.; THE LITTLE GIRL BY THE WINDOW IN THE LITTLE SOD HOUSE.

This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not ... read more

Sod house on the prairie: Hunter man's mother was girl in iconic homestead photo

HUNTER, N.D. — Growing up, Donald Aune would hear stories from his mother about the sod house she lived in as a child in the late 1800s near Milton, N.D. She talked about how cozy it was despite the ... read more

Sod house, mountain wagon on display in park

It wasn’t a windswept prairie. No pioneers were working to build a home in which they’d spend cold winters and hot summers. Instead, the grass was green and short and a group of volunteers were ... read more

Sod House Museum celebrates 50 years, 123 years of existence

ALINE, Okla. — Sod House Museum is celebrating 50 years of preservation this month, 123 years since Marshal McCully built it. The two-room soddy, built in August 1894, is the only remaining ... read more