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Wewela Hall

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ65120910 ↗
Source-derived summary

Wewela Hall, in Wewela, South Dakota, was built in 1926. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.

It was built by the community in 1926.

It has also been known as the Wewela Community Club Hall.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1926, 2010—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1926. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Wewela, Hall and Open-knowledge providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Wewela Hall” 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.