Our capitol city has lost many significant and/or gorgeous buildings. It’s hard to look at some of these archival photographs and think “How did we lose that!?!” Towards the bottom of the list, I’ll run through some of the recent losses–those that had been neglected, damaged, or vacated and cleared to make way for whatever comes next. Then, way at the bottom are citations for frequently used sources, I’ll just put the minimal citation in the text.
For more on Pierre’s surviving historic places and city history: Pierre/Fort Pierre Travel Itinerary from the National Park Service and the Historic Pierre website of the Pierre/Fort Pierre Historic Preservation Office.
Now, here are some (actually, a quite a few) short(-ish) building biographies for a selection of Pierre places that live now only in archive and memory…
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History in South Dakota 