The Lyon Family Home / William & Winona Lyon

The Lyon Family Home, also, William and Winona Lyon. . , The Lyon Family Home , The home, pictured above, was built by Jacob and Katie Schaetzel in 1881, on the northeast corner of 11th Street and Dakota Avenue. Jacob Schaetzel was village president, and later was elected as the first mayor of Sioux Falls. The Lyon family purchased the home in 1904, and moved it to this location in 1906. The home had been near Central School, but needed to be moved when the first phase of Washington High School was constructed in 1907-08. In 1983, the Raab family deeded the home to the City of Sioux Falls, and the house was moved to its current location (west Lotta Street) in 1988., The Lyon family home was a source of inspiration for the 2013 redesign of Lyon Park. The planting beds located at this plaza outline the location and shape of the house's foundation. Also, the "carpenter gothic" features that can be seen on the trim work of the pictured house have been incorporated into the design of the new picnic shelter, located next to the playground area., Information courtesy of the Siouxland Heritage Museums., William and Winona Lyon , William H. Lyon was born in Carroll, IA on November 26, 1858. His family moved to Vermillion, SD in 1860. He moved to Sioux Falls in 1883 and practiced law for many years. William unexpectedly died of pneumonia in 1930, at the age of 72., Winona Axtell Lyon was born on February 12, 1863 in Walnut, IL. She worked in various post offices in Minnesota, before moving to Sioux Falls, where she continued to work in the post office. She married William H. Lyon on November 2, 1891. She founded the Lady's History Club in 1879, and served as the first president of the South Dakota Federation of Women's Clubs in 1900. In 1927, she helped to found the Minnehaha County Historical Society.