Reconnaissance-Level Architectural Survey, Edmunds County, South Dakota

Stewart, Alanna; Ruth, Philip; Cultural Heritage Research Services, Inc.

Abstract: "The Reconnaissance-Level Architectural Survey of Edmunds County, South Dakota was conducted by Cultural Heritage Research Services, Inc. (CHRS, Inc.). The purpose of the project was to determine how many properties in Edmunds County are potentially eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. The project involved identifying and documenting such properties. The Reconnaissance-Level Architectural Survey was sponsored by the South Dakota State Historical Society. The project was performed in accordance with the policies and procedures of the U.S. Department of the Interior, the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards and Guidelines for the Treatment of Historic Properties (Weeks 2001), and the South Dakota Historical Resource Survey Manual (Rogers, Saxman and Schwan 2006). The project area for this survey was the entire county of Edmunds. The county is located in north-central South Dakota. It is bordered on the north by McPherson County, to the east by Brown County, to the south by Faulk County, to the southwest by Potter County, and to the west by Walworth County. Edmunds County consists of 1,146 square miles (733,440 acres) (City-Data 2012). The county is divided into 32 townships with five incorporated towns: Bowdle, Roscoe, Hosmer, Mina and the county seat of Ipswich. The survey work was conducted between July 2012 and September 2012 under the direction of Lindsey Allen, Architectural Historian, CHRS, Inc. The documentation and photography were completed by Mary Alfson Tinsman, Lindsey Allen, Alanna Stewart and Elizabeth Beeman, Architectural Historians, CHRS, Inc. The text contained in the South Dakota State Historic Sites Survey Structure Forms was written by Elizabeth Beeman and was edited by Maria Rossi of the CHRS, Inc. staff. This Reconnaissance-Level Architectural Survey report was written by Alanna Stewart and Philip Ruth, illustrated by Crystal Hall, and edited by Maria Rossi of the CHRS, Inc. staff. The survey forms and this report will be located at the South Dakota State Historical Society. The survey identified 21 properties that had not been previously surveyed which are potentially eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places. These properties were determined eligible because they retained sufficient integrity of materials, design, workmanship, location, feeling, association and setting. A majority of the structures documented are residential properties that are vernacular in design. There are a few properties located in the towns that are designed in high styles. Properties that are considered farmstead historic districts had to have a majority of their outbuildings intact, though barns were surveyed for individual eligibility. The properties surveyed range in construction date from ca. 1890s to ca. 1940s, with a majority of the properties constructed between 1900 and the 1920s. Project funding was provided in part by a 2012 Historic Preservation Fund grant to the South Dakota State Historic Preservation Office (project number SD-12-024, grant number 46-12-41948) administered by the State, Tribal, and Local Plans and Grants Division, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.

Reconnaissance-Level Architectural Survey, Edmunds County, South Dakota

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