17 Dec Historic White Pine Co. Courthouse
Replaced in 2021 by the new Justice Center, Ely’s historic White Pine County Courthouse was built in 1908. The building now holds some of the county’s administrate offices. ...
Replaced in 2021 by the new Justice Center, Ely’s historic White Pine County Courthouse was built in 1908. The building now holds some of the county’s administrate offices. ...
Much folklore and ghost-lore enliven this grand dame of Elko, built in 1869. The Commercial is also the home of what may be the world’s largest dead polar bear, White King....
The old Lamoille Schoolhouse served the children of the area from 1923 until the school district was abolished in 1961....
Thought to be the first house built here, around 1865, it later served as Eureka's first store. It is constructed from the pinion pines that once grew at higher elevations around the town....
What the Silver Dollar Club has going for it, according to one online review, is that "drinks are awesome and cheap!"...
The Northeastern Nevada Museum's Wanamaker Wildlife Wing contains Nevada’s largest collection of wild animals from around the world....
The Pioneer Building at 501 Railroad Street in Elko is now the Western Folklife Center. Completed in 1913, the current building was the largest retail and office building in Elko at the time....
Raines Market, housing its owner's collection of big-game animal trophies, offers a wide range of products for local residents and those passing through town....
The hotel was a favorite gathering place for the Italian American community. Deserted today, it is listed in the National Register of Historic Places....
The Silver King Cafe and Motel sits on U.S. Rt. 95 in the tiny hamlet of Mina (pop. 200) in Mineral County....
Battiste Racanzone came to Nevada in 1865 from the Piedmont district of Italy. He later built Mill Ranch and the Silver State Flour Mill in Paradise Valley....
Frederick William Stock began homesteading in Paradise Valley in 1864. His first dwelling was a sod house, but later improvements included the stone outbuildings featured here....
This view of the east side of the Eureka Historic District includes a mix of nineteenth-century structures plus some modern additions....
Anson Phelps Stokes, from a wealthy eastern family, invested in a mining claim in Austin. In 1896 he began building a summer home for his family, a tower overlooking the Reese River Valley....
On the morning of February 21, 2008, a 6.0 earthquake devastated the town's historic Front Street district. Some twenty buildings were damaged, perhaps beyond repair....
Family-style Basque meals are served daily at the Winnemucca Hotel & Bar, hosted by Michael Lynne Olana in this 2008 photograph....
Established in 1905, the First Presbyterian Church of Lamoille was in decline thirty years later. By the mid 1950s, attendance dwindling, the Nevada Presbytery dissolved the congregation....
The Tonopah Historic Mining Park is located on the site of the original mining claims of 1900 that started the rush to Tonopah....
The Eureka Sentinel Museum is housed in the 1879 Eureka Sentinel Newspaper Building. This structure was used as the newspaper office from 1879 until 1960....
Pete and Mathilde Jauregui built Elko's Star Hotel at 246 Silver Street in 1910. The Star is Elko’s solitary remaining ostatu (Basque lodging)....
Humboldt County moved its county seat from Unionville to Winnemucca in 1873. In 1874 the first courthouse was constructed. It was destroyed by fire in 1918, and the present structure was built. ...
Between 1907 and 1910 the gold mines of Searchlight produced $7 million, but today it is best known as the home town of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid....
The McGill Drug Store was an operating drug store from 1915 until 1979, when it closed, as did the town’s largest employer. It sat there until the mid-1990s, when it was opened as a museum....
The Goldfield Hotel opened its doors in 1908, just a couple of years before the town's mining boom was over. It was called in its day “the gem of the desert.” ...