Minor Sod House

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

Minor Sod House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Nearest city	McDonald, Kansas
Coordinates	39.601416°N 101.394097°W / 39.601416; -101.394097
Built	c. 1907
Architectural style	Sod house
NRHP reference No.	04001428[1]
Added to NRHP	January 5, 2005

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]

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
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