HISTORIC PRESERVATION
State preservation office to city: Don't build, or at least dress up, pole barn in historic area
I reported today that the State Historic Preservation Office disapproves of the city of Mitchell's plan to build a pole-barn storage shed for the Public Safety Department in the city parking lot south...
Posted on 10/21/09 at 4:51 AM
Stanley County working with ND company to save cemetery
The largely unmarked Meers cemetery sits in the middle of a sea of corporate cropland on what was once the McQuiston Ranch.By Lance Nixon , May 17, 2013
MMS&B photo contest announced
Local photographers can capture images of their favorite downtown Mitchell building or architectural characteristic.By News release , May 04, 2013
4 SD sites nominated for National Register of Historic Places
RAPID CITY (AP) — A bank, a barn, a church and a movie theater in South Dakota are being nominated for the National Register of Historic Places.May 03, 2013
Small-town group in Leola protests school demolition
LEOLA (AP) — A group of people in the northeastern South Dakota community of Leola is using ribbons to protest the school board's decision to demolish the town's school and build a new one.April 29, 2013
SD accepting proposals to restore Yankton buildings
PIERRE (AP) — Gov. Dennis Daugaard has announced that South Dakota is accepting proposals through the end of May for development and restoration of buildings on the old campus of the Human Services Center in Yankton.April 17, 2013
LETTER: Newer is not always better
As we face the choice of destroying older homes in our towns, we should consider some things.By Lauretta Larsen , April 12, 2013
LETTER: House renovation looked at differently
How sad it is that South Dakota communities have adopted “nuisance property ordinances.” We are destroying our history.By Lauretta Larsen , March 20, 2013
Museums, libraries, archives offered help with disaster planning
The Dakota Collections Care Initiative has set up disaster preparedness workshops beginning in late April for museums, libraries and archives.By News release , March 19, 2013
Historic train depot back in Fort Pierre
The train depot returned to the town after being used as a storage building on a Mud Butte area ranch since the 1960s.March 19, 2013
Bill would transfer ownership of 9 historic Black Hills cemeteries
The cemeteries are currently owned by the U.S. Forest Service, but the communities have acted as caretakers for generations under special use permits issued by the government.March 05, 2013
Short time for the Longhorn
By Tom Lawrence , March 02, 2013
Two will share honor of being oldest building in Mitchell
A pair of buildings that are three years “newer” than the old Longhorn Bar will share the title of the oldest buildings in Mitchell when the Longhorn is demolished.By Tom Lawrence , March 02, 2013
Mitchell City Hall added to Historic Register
By Tom Lawrence , February 28, 2013
Historic railroad depot returning to Fort Pierre
The Fort Pierre Railroad Depot is more than 100 years old. It has been on the Mud Butte-area ranch of Shirley Miller since the mid-1960s.February 26, 2013
Debate over old barn as juvenile corrections campus improved
PIERRE — Legislators seem willing to let the state’s juvenile corrections division proceed with constructing a new maintenance building at the STAR campus on the grounds of the old Custer state hospital. But they don’t want the barn that would be demolished under the plan lost to history.By Bob Mercer , February 24, 2013
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