1921 Hetland Home on 1.64 Acres with Original Hardwood Floors — $139,900

The price is $51 a square foot. For a 1921 house in South Dakota with original hardwood floors still in it. That is worth pausing on before anything else.

The house sits on 1.64 acres in Hetland, which gives you room to breathe in every direction. Mature trees have had a century to grow, and at this point they define the property as much as the structure does. The shade and the scale of them are the kind of thing you can not plant and wait for — they are already there.

Inside, the house runs 2,714 square feet across three bedrooms and one bath. That is a lot of space for a single bathroom, so whoever buys this will need to think about that math. The original hardwood floors are the detail that matters most in here. A house from 1921 that still has them is telling you something about how it was treated. Floors like that can be refinished once they are uncovered or cleaned up, and they hold up in a way that no laminate replacement ever does.

The agent description is thin. Caps-locked enthusiasm but almost no specifics beyond what is already in the numbers. There is no mention of recent updates, mechanical condition, roof age, or what kind of shape the interior is in beyond the floors. That absence of detail is information. You would want a full inspection and clear answers before moving forward.

What the listing makes plain is this: the square footage is large, the lot is generous, the bones date to 1921, and the price reflects a small town in a rural part of the state. Hetland is small. If you want Sioux Falls amenities, this is not your situation. If you want acreage, old hardwood, and a house with a century of history at a price most places stopped offering a long time ago, this one is worth a serious look.