Ingalls House is a historic house museum at 210 3rd Street Southwest in

De Smet, South Dakota De Smet is a city in and the county seat of Kingsbury County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 1,056 at the 2020 census. History Located in the area of South Dakota known as "East River" (east of the Missouri River, which diagona ...

. The 3rd street house was moved into on Christmas Eve 1887. Everyone but

Laura Ingalls Wilder Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder (February 7, 1867 – February 10, 1957) was an American writer, teacher, and journalist. She is best known as the author of the children's book series ''Little House on the Prairie'', published between 1932 and 1 ...

lived there; she married Almanzo in 1885 and therefore would have not been living with her parents anymore. After living in the surveyor's house in town in 1879-80 and then homesteading for several years, Charles Phillip Ingalls constructed this town house in 1887, and it was occupied by the family until 1928. It features many furnishings crafted by Mr. Ingalls. The Laura Ingalls Wilder Memorial Society purchased the house in 1967 and opened it to the public the next year. The bodies of Charles, Caroline, Mary, Carrie, and Grace Ingalls, and the unnamed infant son of Laura and

Almanzo Wilder Almanzo James Wilder (February 13, 1859 – October 23, 1949) was an American farmer as well as the husband of Laura Ingalls Wilder and the father of Rose Wilder Lane, both noted authors. Biography Early life Wilder was born on his family ...

and Grace’s husband, Nathan Dow, are buried nearby in the

De Smet Cemetery De Smet Cemetery is a cemetery located southwest of the town of De Smet in Kingsbury County, South Dakota, United States. Numerous family members from the Laura Ingalls Wilder ''Little House'' books are buried there. People buried in De Smet C ...

a little over a mile away. The house was added to the

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in 1975. When the Ingalls lived there, fruit trees filled up the back yard and a vegetable garden was in the adjacent lot. Also a barn and a sand-point pump were in constant use. With .

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Laura Ingalls Wilder Memorial Society
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