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720 6th Avenue
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This simple frame structure was constructed by P. J. Bergeim as his private residence in 1897. Professor N. E. Hansen purchased this home as his residence in 1898. Hansen, Professor of Horticulture & Forestry at South Dakota State College, began his duties here in 1895. Beginning in 1894 & throughout his career, he studied Horticulture in Europe, Russia, China & Asia under Department of Agriculture experiments to find new plants & fruits suited to the cold & dry plains of the Northwest. Hansen was responsible for bringing several varieties of seeds & plants to America, including alfalfa, clover & several fruits & trees. Highlights of the home include the decorative bargeboard, the ornamentation on the dormer & the fish scale cladding on the gables. Originally an open porch was framed by a spindled railing.