Pioneer Sod House
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The Pioneer Sod House in Wheat Ridge, Colorado
is a sod house
built in 1886. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
in 1973.
Wheat Ridge, Colorado
The City of Wheat Ridge is a Home Rule Municipality located in Jefferson County, Colorado, United States. Wheat Ridge is a western suburb of Denver. The Wheat Ridge Municipal Center is approximately west-northwest of the Colorado State Capitol in Denver...
is a sod house
Sod house
The sod house or "soddy" was a corollary to the log cabin during frontier settlement of Canada and the United States. The prairie lacked standard building materials such as wood or stone; however, sod from thickly-rooted prairie grass was abundant...
built in 1886. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...
in 1973.
See also
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Jefferson County, ColoradoNational Register of Historic Places listings in Jefferson County, ColoradoThis is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Jefferson County, Colorado.It is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Jefferson County, Colorado, United States...