Cheryl's Doll House being moved in 2004 to it's current location.

Cheryl's Doll House today.

The house was built in the early 1900’s and was one of the finer homes of the time. In 2004 the Doll House was to be moved or demolished. I purchased this house and proceeded to make arrangements to have it moved. The Doll House, weighing 156,000 pounds, was loaded on a truck for the 20 mile ride to its present location at 900 West 1st in Lennox, South Dakota. On July 15th, 2004, Doll House was moved to its new location, and then set on a new basement, which was waiting. The actual moving of the Doll House took 9 hours, many days of preparation before the move and more after to get the Doll House set on its foundation. After many hours of scrubbing, repairing, sanding, refinishing, painting, and polishing, the Doll House was finally ready. Cheryl’s Doll House opened its door on May 20th, 2005.

The wood on the interior of the Doll House is all oak. There are hard wood floors throughout, including the second floor sun porch. The lower floor consists of a living room with fireplace, a dinning room, kitchen and sun porch. The open staircase, curving at the top, leads to the second floor hall at the top of the stairs is a door to the 2nd floor sun porch. It is directly above the 1st floor porch; also at the top of the stairs is the first of five rooms. The first room is the southwest room and was possibly used as a nursery. As you proceed down the hall, the next door is the bathroom with the original claw foot tub. Straight ahead is the Barbie room, a 12x11 room with a slanting ceiling.

Continuing down the hall you make a 90-degree angle turn, and you see the doors to two rooms and a linen closet at the end of the hall. The room to the right of the hall is 12x13 with closet. The room across the hall is the same size with closet.

The dolls are displayed in two rooms on the main floor and 4 on the second floor. The first floor rooms display the better quality dolls, although there are some on the 2nd floor also. The bride dolls and several others were purchased in the French Quarter, New Orleans.

On display in the Barbie room are the holiday Barbies, Disney character Barbies, Barbie’s hand crocheted costumes from historical periods in our history, such as the Gibson style dresses from the Gibson era., or the turn of the century era.

There are other things to see in the Doll House, such as miniature houses, a general store, carousel horses, two chess boards, teddy bears, Raggedy Ann and Andy, dishes, and crocheted bed dolls.

Take the Online Doll House Tours and see the many beautiful dolls in their lovely costumes and more!