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Jefferson Davis Carr House Duffy House/Old Fort Pierre School
19. 206 W. 2 Avenue 20. 198 2 Avenue
nd
nd
Built 1906 Built 1892
Constructed
by Carl
Wagner Constructed in
1892, the Old Fort
Architectural Pierre School was
Style: the first high
Colonial school in Fort
Revival Pierre and one of
the first in western
South Dakota. The two-story school had four classrooms. At first,
Jefferson Davis Carr was a local blacksmith turned rancher. Carr only elementary grades were taught in the building. Some high
took advantage of the Treaty of 1889, which opened reservation school courses were added beginning in 1901, but by 1903, the
lands to settlers for cattle grazing, and started ranching in Stanley school included first intermediate, second intermediate, and a high
County in 1891. He founded the Mississippi Cattle Company and school program. The first graduating class consisted of three
became part of the large-scale ranching movement, which lasted students in 1905. The old high school continued to function until
in South Dakota for 17 years. Large-scale ranching came to a 1909, when a new building was constructed to accommodate
close in 1907, when the federal government began to change its more students. This rapid turnover in school buildings is evidence
policies, restricting grazing land. This left ranchers like Carr with of the growth of Stanley County during the early 1900’s. The Old
smaller grazing lands and herds. Fort Pierre School was remodeled and turned into apartments.
Carr’s house was built of reddish-yellow gumbo brick from the The school has a symmetrical façade and floor plan, hipped roof,
local Franc Rauch Brick Yard in 1906. It is a brick four square with double hung windows and doorway details, cottage windows,
Colonial Revival elements, including the one-story wraparound stained glass transom window over entrance, and very little
porch and classical columns. The house is a rare domestic ornamentation. Originally, the building had a large two-story
building made of all locally manufactured materials and stands as wraparound porch and a bell tower. This is currently the residence
a reminder of one of Fort Pierre’s first economic systems, for the John Duffy family.
ranching.
This house is on the National Register of Historic Places
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