Presentation Children’s Home
The Presentation Children's Home is a historic building at 701 South Western Avenue in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Built to replace an earlier orphanage in Turton that burned down, it functioned not only as an orphanage—one of the few in South Dakota—but also as a school from its opening in 1940 to its closure in 1966.Photo: AlexiusHoratius, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Heritage site
- Description: orphanage in Sioux Falls, South Dakota
- Address: 701 South Western Avenue, Sioux Falls, SD 57104
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Sanford USD Medical Center and Great Plains Zoo.
Sanford USD Medical Center
Hospital
Photo: Sdgjake, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sanford USD Medical Center is a hospital operated by the Sanford Health system in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. It is classified as a Level I Trauma center. Sanford USD Medical Center is situated 3,100 feet southeast of Presentation Children’s Home.
Great Plains Zoo
Zoo
Photo: Sdgjake, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Great Plains Zoo is a 45-acre zoo located in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States. The zoo formerly was connected with the Delbridge Museum of Natural History, and prior to the closure of the museum, the museum displayed 150 mounted animals, including 38 "vanishing species". Great Plains Zoo is situated 3,600 feet west of Presentation Children’s Home.
Washington Pavilion of Arts and Science
Museum
Photo: AlexiusHoratius, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Washington Pavilion of Arts and Science opened in 1999 and houses an art gallery, concert hall, large-format theater, and science museum in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States. Washington Pavilion of Arts and Science is situated 1¼ miles east of Presentation Children’s Home.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sioux Falls.
Sioux Falls
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Sioux Falls is a city of about 184,000 in Southeast South Dakota. Founded in 1883 in what was then known as the Dakota Territory, Sioux Falls has grown from a sleepy Midwestern town into a resort for shopping and tourism in the northern Great Plains.
Presentation Children’s Home
- Categories: orphanage, building, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: City of Sioux Falls, Minnehaha, South Dakota, Great Plains, United States, North America
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Latitude
43.53989° or 43° 32′ 24″ northLongitude
-96.7518° or 96° 45′ 7″ westInception
1940Levels
3Open location code
86M5G6QX+X7OpenStreetMap ID
way 1314506214OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
historic=heritageWikidata ID
Q111169808
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