Dell Rapids Historic District, Grand Opera House and Wingum Building

            The Dell Rapids Historic District was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.  Photograph from 2001 nomination update.

The Dell Rapids Historic District is the downtown commercial area of town focused on two blocks of 4th Street.  The district was listed with thirty-nine buildings.  Sioux quartzite stone is characteristic of the unique downtown, used from local quarries after a significant fire in 1888 burned down many of the earliest buildings.  Victorian era Romanesque style and the Neoclassical style are notable, in addition to the Art Moderne style of the Dells Theatre.

Euro-Americans started settling in the Dell Rapids area in 1868 with a boom starting in 1875 that extended through the 1880s.  A railroad connection arrived in 1880.  A major industry was the local stone quarry, in addition to agriculture as was common in the area.

Taken on: January 7, 2025

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National Register of Historic Places

South Dakota

Dell Rapids

Dell Rapids Historic District

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Sioux quartzite

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Grand Opera House

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Wingum Building « less

Sets appears in: • Commercial Buildings • Opera Houses and Theaters more » • Minnehaha County • Stone Construction « less

Groups appears in: • South Dakota National Register of Historic Places

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