Addison Sod House (Provincial Site)
N 51° 37.223 W 109° 00.954
12U E 637352 N 5720682
Both and provincial and national site the Addison Sod House has lasted over a hundred years. Located north of Kindersley on Hwy 21, then East on Gleneath Road, 10.6 kilometers.
Waymark Code: WMWGCY
Location: Saskatchewan, Canada
Date Posted: 09/02/2017
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As the plaque reads:
Addison Sod House
1911
With little lumber or brick available, many homesteads in early Saskatchewan built their homes of sod. When English immigrant James Addison drovee to this site by ox cart from Saskatoon in 1908, he observed the deterioration of sod houses only a few months or years old. He was determined not to repeat these design errors. The following year, Addison began this architecturally unique home which was completed in 1911. With its sloped walls made of two thicknesses of carefully cut and laid sod, this is the only known continually inhabited sod house in the Province.
Designated Provincial Heritage Property.
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