Trangsrud House

Trangsrud House. . The Trangsruds were an early pioneering family in Cass County. Hans and Berte Trangsrud immigrated from Oslo, Norway to America with their children: Amund, Bernard, Axel, and Bertia in 1870. The family first settled in Mitchell County, Iowa and then left for the Dakota Territory in Spring 1871 with other immigrant families. The Trangsruds camped along the Red River and Hans later traded a cow with a squatter for a homestead on the east bank of the Sheyenne River in Kindred, North Dakota. They built their family house on that land., Hans and Berte's son, Amund, married Rikka Myrah in 1887 and they purchased a homestead one mile south of the family's original homestead. The original house was about twice the size of its current appearance. Half of it was moved to a new location for hired men to use as a bunk house during harvest. The lumber, siding, and windows from the other half was used to build a garage, which still exists on the original site. Amund and Rikka's son Henry married Eva Johnson and raised their five children on the family's farmstead in 1927. Henry and Eva's son Henry (Hank) Jr., his wife, Joyce Eriksmoen Trangsrud, and their four children moved onto the family homestead in 1973. They began restoring the original Trangsrud house in 1980 to use as a private personal family museum and a playhouse for the grandchildren. Hank and Joyce donated the original house and the grain elevator to Bonanzaville in 2009., (Captions) , Drawing by Hannah Trangsrud of how the Trangsrud House originally looked. , Amund and Rikka Trangsrud with their children.