Home on the Range Cabin

Historic house in Kansas, United States

United States historic place


Home on the Range Cabin
U.S. National Register of Historic Places


39°53′21.8″N 98°56′49.8″W / 39.889389°N 98.947167°W / 39.889389; -98.947167
Area	1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built	1875
Built by	Higley VI, Dr. Brewster
Architectural style	Log Cabin
NRHP reference No.	73000780^[1]
Added to NRHP	March 26, 1973

The Home on the Range Cabin, near Smith Center, Kansas, is a log cabin built by Dr. Brewster Higley VI in 1875. It is associated with the song "Home on the Range", written by Higley as a poem in 1872 while living on a dugout that he built on the banks of the Beaver Creek. Higley's friend Dan Kelley set the poem to music; the song eventually became famous and is now the state song of Kansas.^[2]

The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.^[1]^[2]

The cabin site is 240 acres of range and cultivated land owned by Peoples Heartland Foundation. The cabin was restored in 2013 to its 1870s appearance.^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ ^a ^b Richard Pankratz (March 8, 1971). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: "Home on the Range" Cabin". National Park Service. and accompanying photo from 1960
^ "Home on the Range Cabin". Peoples Heartland Foundation. Retrieved September 2, 2014.