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21. W.J. Hannum House 22. Fred S. Rowe House
714 Verendrye Drive
Verendrye Drive in Ranch Acres

Built 1900
Built 1906
Architectural Style:
Queen Anne Architectural Style:
Queen Anne

Joe Schomer Sr.
ordered this kit house
from the Sears &
Roebuck Company in 1900. The style is Queen Anne and features Fred S. Rowe came to Fort Pierre and established the town’s first
beautiful interior woodwork. hardware store, Rowe Hardware, in 1890. In 1906, Fred had this
Queen Anne style house constructed at the corner of Cedar

W.J. Hannum, a veteran of the Spanish American War, came to Avenue and C Street along the Bad River. Years later the house
the Fort Pierre area during the homesteading boom and filed a was purchased by local banker Floyd Fackleman and his wife,
claim in 1910 near Lindsey. He worked as a postman, hauled Pauline. The Facklemans moved the home to its current location
lumber for the building of the Capitol building in Pierre, was deputy on Verendrye Drive.
sheriff of Fort Pierre, and worked for his son on the Malady Place
down on the Bad River. Eventually, Hannum moved into town and
purchased this house in 1952. He lived here until his death in
1973.

At the time of his death, Hannum was the last known living
survivor of the Spanish American War.

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