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FreeTwo free Sioux Falls history museums: the Old Courthouse Museum and the Pettigrew Home and Museum.
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Pettigrew Home & Museum
Pettigrew Home & Museum is a museum in Sioux Falls, SD, part of the Sioux Falls and Brookings guide. Cost: free.
131 N Duluth Ave · Sioux Falls, SD
Why you should go…
The Pettigrew Home & Museum is an 1889 Queen Anne-style house of red brick and Sioux quartzite in the Cathedral Historic District just west of downtown Sioux Falls. Senator Richard F. Pettigrew lived here from 1911 until his death in 1926, added a museum wing for the archaeological finds, Native American clothing and natural history specimens he collected on his travels, and left it all to the city. Visitors take a guided tour of the furnished home and browse the galleries on Sioux Falls in the late 1800s. Admission is free; open daily, with longer hours May through September.
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