Sod House - Notable Sod Houses

Notable Sod Houses

Sod houses that are individually notable and historic sites that include one or more sod houses or other sod structures include:

Iceland
  • Skagafjordur Folk Museum, Turf/Sod houses of the burstabær style in Glaumbær.
  • Arbaer Folk Museum,
Canada
  • Addison Sod House, a Canadian National Historic Landmark building, in Saskatchewan
  • L'Anse aux Meadows, the site of the pioneering 10th-11th century CE Norse settlement near the northern tip of Newfoundland, has reconstructions of eight sod houses in their original locations, used for various purposes when built by Norse settlers there a millennium ago
United States
  • Cottonwood Ranch, Sheridan County, Kansas. The ranch site, listed in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), included a sod stable
  • Dowse Sod House, near Comstock, Nebraska; NRHP-listed and operated as museum
  • Heman Gibbs Farmstead, Falcon Heights, Minnesota; the NRHP-listed stie includes a replica of the original 1849 sod house
  • Jackson-Einspahr Sod House, Holstein, Nebraska, NRHP-listed
  • Leffingwell Camp Site, Flaxman Island, Alaska, listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)
  • Minor Sod House, McDonald, Kansas, NRHP-listed
  • Pioneer Sod House, Wheat Ridge, Colorado, NRHP-listed
  • Gustav Rohrich Sod House, Bellwood, Nebraska, NRHP-listed
  • Sod House (Cleo Springs, Oklahoma), also known as Marshall McCully Sod House, NRHP-listed
  • Sod House Ranch, Burns, Oregon, (does not include a sod house)
  • Wallace W. Waterman Sod House, Big Springs, Nebraska, NRHP-listed

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