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Bernt Gustad House

historic one-and-a-half-story house in Volin, South Dakota

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ85746691 ↗
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The Bernt Gustad House is a historic one-and-a-half-story house in Volin, South Dakota. It was built in 1906 as a cottage with a dormer, and designed in the Queen Anne architectural style. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since April 16, 1980.

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The public source identifies “Bernt Gustad House” as historic one-and-a-half-story house in Volin, South Dakota. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Bernt, Gustad and House.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1906, 1980—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1906. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Bernt, Gustad and House providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Bernt Gustad House” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.