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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Turf house used in early colonial North America</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Keldur_01.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Keldur_01.jpg/220px-Keldur_01.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Keldur_01.jpg/330px-Keldur_01.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Keldur_01.jpg/440px-Keldur_01.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3264" data-file-height="2448" /></a><figcaption>A sod farm structure in <a href="/wiki/Iceland" title="Iceland">Iceland</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Saskatchewan_sod_house.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Saskatchewan_sod_house.jpg/220px-Saskatchewan_sod_house.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="155" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Saskatchewan_sod_house.jpg/330px-Saskatchewan_sod_house.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Saskatchewan_sod_house.jpg/440px-Saskatchewan_sod_house.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="565" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Saskatchewan" title="Saskatchewan">Saskatchewan</a> sod house, circa 1900</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Russellsodhousewindow.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Russellsodhousewindow.jpg/170px-Russellsodhousewindow.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="216" class="mw-file-element" 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class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Primarily used at first for animal shelters, corrals, and fences, if the <a href="/wiki/Prairie" title="Prairie">prairie</a> lacked standard <a href="/wiki/Building_material" title="Building material">building materials</a> such as wood or stone, <a href="/wiki/Sod" title="Sod">sod</a> from thickly-rooted prairie grass was abundant, free, and could be used for house construction.<sup id="cite_ref-Addison_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Addison-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Prairie grass has a much thicker, tougher root structure than a modern lawn. </p><p>Construction of a sod house involved cutting patches of sod in triangles and piling them into walls. Builders employed a variety of roofing methods.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sod houses accommodated normal doors and windows. The resulting structure featured less expensive materials, and was quicker to build than a wood-frame house, but required frequent maintenance and were often vulnerable to rain damage, especially if the roof was also primarily of sod. <a href="/wiki/Stucco" title="Stucco">Stucco</a> was sometimes used to protect the outer walls. Canvas or stucco often lined the interior walls. There are a variety of designs, including a type built by Mennonites in Prussia, Russia, and Canada called a semlin,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and a variety in <a href="/wiki/Alaska" title="Alaska">Alaska</a> known as a <a href="/wiki/Barabara" title="Barabara">barabara</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notable_sod_houses">Notable sod houses</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sod_house&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Notable sod houses"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:L%27Anse_aux_Meadows,_recreated_long_house.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/L%27Anse_aux_Meadows%2C_recreated_long_house.jpg/220px-L%27Anse_aux_Meadows%2C_recreated_long_house.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/L%27Anse_aux_Meadows%2C_recreated_long_house.jpg/330px-L%27Anse_aux_Meadows%2C_recreated_long_house.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/L%27Anse_aux_Meadows%2C_recreated_long_house.jpg/440px-L%27Anse_aux_Meadows%2C_recreated_long_house.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3840" data-file-height="2160" /></a><figcaption>A Norse sod longhouse recreation at <a href="/wiki/L%27Anse_aux_Meadows" title="L'Anse aux Meadows">L'Anse aux Meadows</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Sod houses that are individually notable and historic sites that include one or more sod houses or other sod structures include: </p> <dl><dt>Iceland</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Skagafj%C3%B6r%C3%B0ur_Folk_Museum" title="Skagafjörður Folk Museum">Skagafjörður Folk Museum</a>, turf/sod houses of the burstabær style in <a href="/wiki/Glaumb%C3%A6r" title="Glaumbær">Glaumbær</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arbaer_Folk_Museum" class="mw-redirect" title="Arbaer Folk Museum">Arbaer Folk Museum</a>.</li></ul> <dl><dt>Canada</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Addison_Sod_House" title="Addison Sod House">Addison Sod House</a>, a Canadian National Historic Landmark building, in Saskatchewan.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/L%27Anse_aux_Meadows" title="L'Anse aux Meadows">L'Anse aux Meadows</a>, the site of the pioneering 10th–11th century CE <a href="/wiki/Norsemen" title="Norsemen">Norse</a> settlement near the northern tip of <a href="/wiki/Newfoundland_(island)" title="Newfoundland (island)">Newfoundland</a>, has reconstructions of eight sod houses in their original locations, used for various purposes when built by Norse settlers there a millennium ago.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Mennonite_Heritage_Village" title="Mennonite Heritage Village">Mennonite Heritage Village</a> in <a href="/wiki/Steinbach,_Manitoba" title="Steinbach, Manitoba">Steinbach, Manitoba</a> contains a Mennonite-style sod hut known as a semlin</li></ul> <dl><dt>United States</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cottonwood_Ranch" title="Cottonwood Ranch">Cottonwood Ranch</a>, Sheridan County, Kansas. The ranch site, listed in the <a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places" title="National Register of Historic Places">National Register of Historic Places</a> (NRHP), included a sod stable.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dowse_Sod_House" title="Dowse Sod House">Dowse Sod House</a>, near <a href="/wiki/Comstock,_Nebraska" title="Comstock, Nebraska">Comstock, Nebraska</a>; NRHP-listed and operated as museum.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heman_Gibbs_Farmstead" class="mw-redirect" title="Heman Gibbs Farmstead">Heman Gibbs Farmstead</a>, Falcon Heights, Minnesota; the NRHP-listed site includes a replica of the original 1849 sod house.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jackson-Einspahr_Sod_House" class="mw-redirect" title="Jackson-Einspahr Sod House">Jackson-Einspahr Sod House</a>, Holstein, Nebraska, NRHP-listed.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leffingwell_Camp_Site" title="Leffingwell Camp Site">Leffingwell Camp Site</a>, Flaxman Island, Alaska, listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Minor_Sod_House" title="Minor Sod House">Minor Sod House</a>, McDonald, Kansas, NRHP-listed.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Page_Soddy" title="Page Soddy">Page Soddy</a>, Harper County, Oklahoma, NRHP-listed.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pioneer_Sod_House" title="Pioneer Sod House">Pioneer Sod House</a>, Wheat Ridge, Colorado, NRHP-listed.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gustav_Rohrich_Sod_House" title="Gustav Rohrich Sod House">Gustav Rohrich Sod House</a>, Bellwood, Nebraska, NRHP-listed.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sod_House_(Cleo_Springs,_Oklahoma)" title="Sod House (Cleo Springs, Oklahoma)">Sod House (Cleo Springs, Oklahoma)</a>, also known as <i>Marshall McCully Sod House</i>, NRHP-listed.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sod_House_Ranch" title="Sod House Ranch">Sod House Ranch</a>, Burns, Oregon (does not include a sod house).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wallace_W._Waterman_Sod_House" title="Wallace W. 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Waterman Sod House</a>, Big Springs, Nebraska, NRHP-listed.</li></ul> <dl><dt>The Netherlands</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Netherlands_Open_Air_Museum" title="Netherlands Open Air Museum">Netherlands Open Air Museum</a> near <a href="/wiki/Arnhem" title="Arnhem">Arnhem</a>.</li> <li>De Spitkeet in <a href="/wiki/Harkema" title="Harkema">Harkema</a> is an open air museum reconstructing how people used to live in the area.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ellert_en_Brammert_(museum)" title="Ellert en Brammert (museum)">Ellert en Brammert</a>, a museum in <a href="/wiki/Drenthe" title="Drenthe">Drenthe</a> with multiple sod houses.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sod_house&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style 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Butcher">Solomon D. Butcher</a> (1856–1927), Nebraska photographer of the homestead era, whose works include over 1,000 photos of sod houses: <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/sdbutcherspione00butcgoog">Pioneer History of Custer County and Short Sketches of Early Days in Nebraska</a></i> (1901), and <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/sodhousesordevel00butc">Sod Houses, or the Development of the Great American Plains</a></i> (1904)</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDick" class="citation book cs1">Dick, Everett. <i>The Sod-House Frontier, 1854–1890: A Social History of the Northern Plains from the Creation of Kansas and Nebraska to the Admission of the Dakotas</i>. 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