Anne Hattes is a Hartland, Wisconsin, native who writes on travel and food. Please The Sod House Museum is at the northwest corner of the I-80 interchange at Gothenburg. In addition to the house, there's a barn housing photographs and memorabilia, a wooden windmill and a life-size buffalo sculpted from barbed wire. Closed winter Mondays. The Sod House Museum Complex is in Mid-Way Park, Hwy.
Admission is free.
The Marysville Sod House is in City Park on Rt. It's usually open Mother's Day through Labor Day. Admission is free. Nebraska's historic buildings survey has recorded 137 sod houses, mostly in the Panhandle and Sandhills parts of the state. In addition to Merle Block's soddy, another one open to visitors is the Dowse Sod House, near Comstock.