Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1901 — "Soddies" in Colorado. [ARTICLE]

"Soddies" in Colorado.

Sod houses, or, as they are locally termed, "soddies,” are now being built in large numbers in eastern Colorado. They are made of oblong pieces of sod cut from the prairie, about eighteen inches in length, seven inches broad, and from three to four inches thick. No foundation is required, the sods being simply laid on the prairie, and up goes the structure. '.‘Soddies” are cool In summer and warm In winter, and when the snow-laden wind is whistling without a cozy sodhouse, In which there is a good corncob fire, la not to be despised.