Member Museum Details



Mellette Memorial Association
421 Fifth Avenue Northwest
Box 212
Watertown, South Dakota 57201
605-886-4730

We own and operate the Mellette House, home of Arthur Mellette, the first Governor of South Dakota. The home is beautifully restored with many of the family's original furnishings.

Experience life first hand in an elegant Italianate 1885 Dakota Territory home. Mellette House is renowned not only because of its spectacular architecture but because of the remarkable family that built it and occupied it for the first ten years of its existence.

  • Type Of Facility: Historic Building

  • Admission: Free...Donations Welcomed

  • Group Tours Available: Yes, by appointment only, call 886-4730.

  • Wheelchair Accessible: No

  • Season: May 1 - October 1

  • Hours: Tuesday - Sunday...1:00 PM - 5:00 PM