Photograph of Shakespeare Garden and Anne Hathaway Cottage — Photograph by Ammodramus, CC0 1.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Shakespeare Garden and Shay House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“The Shakespeare Garden and Anne Hathaway Cottage is a recreation of Anne Hathaway's Cottage in Wessington Springs, South Dakota, United States. Inspired by the original cottage during a vacation to England, Emma Shay completed the house and adjoining Shakespeare garden in 1932 and 1927, respectively.”
Wikipedia article Shakespeare Garden and Anne Hathaway Cottage, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Jerauld County · listed in 1979 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. Off SD 34, Wessington Springs, 57382
When was it listed? November 1979
Category. building
City. Wessington Springs city
Architectural style. Tudor Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 79003681 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

24 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Shakespeare Garden and Shay House between 2000 and 2020, burning about 160 acres in total. 4 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Debris and open burning	5
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Natural	4
Smoking	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
8 September 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	BULLBASH CORNFIELD
14 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	20 acres	Wessington Springs Volunteer Fire Department	GOD'S ACRES
1 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	D SCHAFER
4 August 2018	Natural	3.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	FUN FEST
29 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	KID
25 August 2017	Natural	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	FOOTBALL STORM
6 July 2017	Natural	1.0 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	VANDYKE BALES
4 July 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	COLLEGE FIREWORKS

Every fire recorded in Jerauld County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Shakespeare Garden and Shay House: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Jerauld County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
H.P. Will House	0.3 miles	2003
Methodist Episcopal Church of Wessington Springs	0.5 miles	1999
Robert S. Vessey House	0.5 miles	1978
Wessington Springs Carnegie Library	0.5 miles	1999
Jerauld County Courthouse	0.6 miles	1993
Municipal Field House	0.6 miles	2000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79003681 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jerauld County	All 13 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.