Van Osdel House

United States historic place


Van Osdel House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

The house in 2016
42°55′12″N 97°16′50″W / 42.92000°N 97.28056°W / 42.92000; -97.28056 (Van Osdel House)
Area	less than one acre
Built	1912 (1912)
Architectural style	Hip Cottage
MPS	Northern and Central Townships of Yankton MRA
NRHP reference No.	80003747^[1]
Added to NRHP	April 16, 1980

The Van Osdel House is a historic house in Mission Hill, South Dakota. It was built in 1912 for Abraham Lincoln Van Osdel,^[2] who served in the Union Army during the American Civil War of 1861-1865 and was later elected as a member of the South Dakota Legislature in 1877, 1881, 1885, 1899, 1906 and 1907.^[3] Van Osdel was also the commander of the South Dakota department of the Grand Army of the Republic, a book collector, an author and a poet; he died in 1936.^[3] The house has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since April 16, 1980.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
^ "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Van Osdel House". National Park Service. Retrieved August 3, 2019. With accompanying pictures
^ ^a ^b "Dakota G. A. R. Leader Dies. A. L. Van Osdel Prominent Yankton Resident, Expires". Sioux City Journal. Sioux City, Iowa. July 26, 1936. p. 16. Retrieved August 3, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.