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Webster, South Dakota: Shoe House, World's Largest Hairball

The shoe collection of Mildred Fiksdal O'Neill is displayed in a shoe-shaped building. Part of a larger, mostly normal museum, but it does have a giant hairball and other oddities.

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Shoe House

The considerable shoe collection of Mildred Fiksdal O'Neill is on display in a Shoe-shaped house in Webster, at the Museum of Wildlife, Science and Industry. She began collecting shoes in the 1940s.

[Gail Cathey, 08/28/2000]

We welcome this shoe house to the procession of Big Shoes . . .

Shoe House, World's Largest Hairball

Museum of Wildlife, Science, and Industry

Address:
760 W Highway 12, Webster, SD
Directions:
Museum of Wildlife, Science, and Industry. U.S. route 12, west of Webster, north side of the road.
Phone:
605-345-4751
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Nearby Offbeat Places

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In the region:
The Monolith, Milbank, SD - 45 mi.

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