In Mission Hill, Mission Hill, South Dakota. County/parish: Yankton.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places April 16, 1980. NRIS 80003747.
1 contributing building.
The Van Osdel House is a historic house in Mission Hill, South Dakota. It was built in 1912 for Abraham Lincoln Van Osdel, 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. 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. The house has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since April 16, 1980.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93204284