Frawley Brothers Upper Ranch

In 1891, Henry Frawley purchased the land where Centennial Park Hotel and Post Office had been located. He moved several buildings from another homestead and combined two of them to create an A-frame ranch house that is still used today. Limestone and timbers from Centennial Quarry were used to construct two-story livestock barns with a combination of cutstone and red horizontal siding. Architecturally unique, each of the two connecting barns opens to its own protected courtyard, and few such structures exist elsewhere in the country. With prized Rockefeller Hereford cattle, Frawley established his ranch, and the Upper Ranch became home to his eldest son, Henry J., and his family.

South Dakota · United States