16 Oct Star Basque Restaurant
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)....
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13 Oct Old Lander Co. Courthouse
Lander County’s courthouse moved around with the population. The first was in Jacobsville. But then a newly-discovered vein of silver in Austin prompted the county to move its seat to Austin....
12 Oct Searchlight
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....
11 Oct Fourth Ward School
Virginia City's Fourth Ward School opened in 1877. The Fourth Ward was the largest and most advanced of several schools in the district. It is also the only one to survive....
11 Oct The McGill Drug Store Museum,
and the McGill Club Saloon
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....
09 Oct Goldfield Hotel
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.” ...
09 Oct Esmeralda Co. Courthouse
Goldfield's Esmeralda County Courthouse opened for business in 1908. Esmeralda County stretches for some 3588 sq. miles, but contains fewer than 1262 people (2006). ...
08 Oct Two Casinos in Ely
When the Hotel Nevada was completed in 1929, it was claimed to be the tallest building in Nevada. Rooms rented for $1.50 and up, "All with private toilet; 85% with private bath."...
07 Oct Chollar Mine
With its riches first located in 1859, the Chollar Mine (later the Chollar-Potosi) was one of the leading producers on the Comstock. ...
05 Oct Eureka Opera House
The interior of the Eureka Opera House includes a well-preserved olio, or stage curtain, featuring advertisements for local businesses. The institution dates to 1874....
03 Oct Storey Co. Courthouse
The courthouse opened in 1877. Electrification during the Great Depression left Art Deco style fixtures hanging from the high ceiling....
03 Oct Eureka Co. Courthouse
Eureka County built its courthouse in 1879. The courtroom includes original pressed tin ceiling and wood features. An nook for the court clerk in front of the judge's bench is noteworthy....
30 Sep Berlin Stamp Mill
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Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park is at 7,000 feet on the western slope of central Nevada's Shoshone mountain range. Berlin saw its heyday in 1908, diminishing to nothing by 1911. ...
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