Minor Sod House

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Minor Sod House
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Nearest city McDonald, Kansas
Coordinates 39°36′05″N101°23′39″W / 39.601416°N 101.394097°W / 39.601416; -101.394097
Builtc. 1907
Architectural styleSod house
NRHP reference No. 04001428 [1]
Added to NRHPJanuary 5, 2005

The Minor Sod House, also known as Minor Post Office, near McDonald, Kansas, is a sod house that was built c. 1907.

It is a one-story building with a gabled rectangular section about 48 by 19 feet (14.6 by 5.8 m) with 2-foot-thick (0.61 m) sod brick walls, plus a 16-by-10-foot (4.9 by 3.0 m) wood-frame lean-to section, all covered by a corrugated, galvanized metal roof. The exterior is cement and stucco in the two sections. [2]

It was used as the first post office of Minor, Kansas, with first postmaster Tom Minor. A grocery store built by Minor not far away then served as the post office, then it returned to the soddy when the grocery store closed, until the post office itself closed in November 1920. [2]

It was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 2005. It served historically as a single dwelling and as a post office. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. 1 2 Fred M. Juenemann (August 2004). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Minor Sod House / Minor Post Office". National Park Service . Retrieved October 13, 2016. with three photos from 2004