Painting a home was considered a true luxury for many and the most valuable building on the property, the barn, was often ...

Most people think of sod houses as those lived in by pioneers. Their basic living quarters were made of dirt walls. To me, it ...

EDINBURG (AP) - Stepping over the threshold of the Edinburg sod house is a trip back in time. Members of the community have furnished the sod house with late 19th Century and early 20th Century ...

With a lack of trees or stone on the prairie, homesteaders looked to the land for building materials. Sod, made from thickly rooted prairie grass cut in 2- by 1-foot chunks, was piled like bricks to ...