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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OK8_the-governors-mansion_Carson-City-NV.html
Reno architect George A. Ferris designed this neo-classical mansion, which cost $22,700. It is the only home ever built for Nevada's highest elected official. In July, 1909, acting Governor Denver Dickerson and his wife Una became the first reside…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OJJ_the-united-states-mint-carson-city-nevada_Carson-City-NV.html
The original Carson City building is a formal balanced, sandstone block edifice, two stories high with a centrally located, cupola. The sandstone blocks were quarried at the Nevada State prison.On March 3, 1862, Congress passed a bill establishing…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OIK_stewart-nye-residence_Carson-City-NV.html
This house was built about 1860 of local sandstone for William Morris Stewart who lived here until 1862. He sold it to the Territorial Governor of Nevada, James W. Nye. The two men served as Nevada's first United States Senators after the territor…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BKN_spooner-area_Carson-City-NV.html
This area bears the name of Michele E. Spooner, a French Canadian entrepreneur, who, along with others, was instrumental in establishing the wood and lumber industry which supplied the needs of the Comstock mines and mills.
In 1868 Spooner bec…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HME42_olcovich-meyers-house_Carson-City-NV.html
Olcovich-Meyers HouseHas been placed on theNational Registerof Historic PlacesBy the United StatesDepartment of the Interior1874
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HME0O_rinckle-mansion_Carson-City-NV.html
Completed in 1876, this palatial residence represents one of the finest and best preserved examples of High Victorian Italianate architecture remaining in the American West.
Charles H. Jones, a French-schooled designer, constructed the residenc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HME0J_methodist-church-of-carson-city_Carson-City-NV.html
Dedicated in 1867, this church serves a congregation that was organized in 1859 and is often referred to as the "Cradle of Nevada Methodism". Like many other buildings in Carson City, the stone used in its construction was quarried at the nearby S…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDZU_st-peters-episcopal-church_Carson-City-NV.html
Construction of this graceful reminder of the churches of old New England began in October 1867. Work was completed in July 1868 at a cost of $5,500.
The church was first occupied by its congregation on Sunday, August 9, 1868, with the Reverend…