The house is located 2 miles (3.2 km) west of Nebraska Highway 29 and approximately 25 miles (40 km) north of Mitchell; its exact location is restricted.
Pioneer Joseph L. Sandford built the house in 1897 on a homestead claim.
Settlers in the Great Plains commonly built dugout houses or sod homes at the time, as more conventional building materials were difficult to obtain in the region.
[2] The dugout was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 9, 2000.
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