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The Nebraska Sod House, essentially a concession building, was located between the Six Nations Exhibit and the Forestry Building. It was a re-creation of the Great Plains shelter created by pioneers from around 1850 -1890. No details are available about the extent to which the Exposition's 'sod' house was made of actual sod. We should not think of this building as the official Nebraska state building at the Exposition.

The building was often mentioned as the popular destination for an excellent thirty-cent [$6.13]meal consisting of "fricaseed chicken, coffee, bread and butter." This seemed like a good deal because most meals on the grounds were fifty cents and up, but the Exposition's Medical Department found the Nebraska Sod House in violation of health standards to such an extant that it was finally shut down in August, nearly three months before the Exposition closed.