Built c. 1907 NRHP Reference # 04001428 Nearest city McDonald | Architectural style Sod house Added to NRHP 5 January 2005 | |
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The Minor Sod House, also known as Minor Post Office, near McDonald, Kansas is a sod house that was built c. 1907.
It is one-story building with a gabled rectangular section about 48 feet (15 m) by 19 feet (5.8 m) with 2 feet (0.61 m) thick sod brick walls, plus a 16 feet (4.9 m) by 10 feet (3.0 m) woodframe leanto section, all covered by a corrugated, galvantized metal roof. The exterior is cement and stucco in the two sections.
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.
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.