Esmeralda County Courthouse | |
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General information | |
Completed | 1907 |
Technical details | |
Floor count | 2 |
Design and construction | |
Main contractor | John Shea |
Esmeralda County Courthouse | |
Location | NE corner of Crook and Euclid Avenues Goldfield, Nevada |
Coordinates | 37°42′31″N117°14′3″W / 37.70861°N 117.23417°W |
Built | 1907 |
Part of | Goldfield Historic District (ID82003213) |
Added to NRHP | June 14, 1982 |
The Esmeralda County Courthouse, built in 1907, is a historic two-story county courthouse located on the northeast corner of Crook Avenue (U.S. 95) and Euclid Avenue in Goldfield, Esmeralda County, Nevada. It is a contributing property in the Goldfield Historic District and still serves as the county's courthouse. [1] [2]
Nye County is a county in the U.S. state of Nevada. As of the 2020 census, the population was 51,591. Its county seat is Tonopah. At 18,159 square miles (47,030 km2), Nye is Nevada's largest county by area and the third-largest county in the contiguous United States, behind Coconino County of Arizona and San Bernardino County of California.
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Goldfield is an unincorporated small desert city and the county seat of Esmeralda County, Nevada.
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Esmeralda County School District is a public school district in Esmeralda County, Nevada. It is the smallest school district in Nevada. Its boundary is that of the county. The district has offices in Dyer and Goldfield.
State Route 266 is a 40.338-mile (64.918 km) state highway in Esmeralda County, Nevada, United States. It connects the routing of California State Route 266 east to U.S. Route 95 via the town of Lida. Lida Road previously carried the southern end of State Route 3.
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Goldfield Airport was a county-owned, public-use airport located 1 nautical mile north of the central business district of Goldfield, the county seat of Esmeralda County, Nevada, United States. The airport closed in 2007.
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The Goldfield Hotel is a historic four-story building located at the southeast corner of Crook Avenue and Columbia Avenue in Goldfield, Esmeralda County, Nevada. Designed in the Classical Revival style of architecture by Reno architects Morrill J. Curtis (1848–1921) and George E. Holesworth of the firm of Curtis and Morrill, it was built between 1907 and 1908 on the site of two earlier hotels of the same name which had burnt down. Built in a U-shape in order to ensure outside windows for each guest room, the building has its west or main facade extending 180 feet (55 m) along Columbia Street with the north wing fronting 100 feet (30 m) on Crook Avenue and the south wing fronting 100 feet (30 m) along an alleyway. The ground floor exterior facades were built of grey granite stones from Rocklin, California while the interior first floor facade and all upper story facades were built of redbrick. The top floor exterior facades were crowned with a white cornice. On March 4, 1981, it was added to the Nevada State Register of Historic Places. It is a contributing property in the Goldfield Historic District, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 14, 1982.
Farmer's Bank of Carson Valley is a historic bank building at 1597 Esmeralda Avenue in Minden, Nevada. It was built from 1916 to 1918 to replace the original 1909 bank building, which the Farmer's Bank had outgrown. Prominent Nevada architect Frederic Joseph DeLongchamps designed the building in the Classical Revival style; the bank is one of many Neoclassical structures in Minden designed by DeLongchamps. It features a cornice with terra cotta tiles and bands, a flat roof with a low parapet, and an entrance portico with Ionic columns. It was built for Farmer's Bank organizer H. F. Dangberg, who was also the founder of Minden. It served as a bank until 1968; it currently houses offices.
The Minden Inn is a historic hotel building located at 1594 Esmeralda Avenue in Minden, Nevada. Built from 1912 to 1916, the building was designed by prominent Nevada architect Frederic Joseph DeLongchamps in the Classical Revival style. The hotel was the largest commercial building in Minden and was operated by H. F. Dangberg, the founder of the town. The inn earned a reputation as "one of the finest small hotels on the West Coast" and was visited by a number of actors and celebrities who passed through Minden on the Virginia and Truckee Railroad. In addition, the hotel included a bar and gambling operations until 1987. The building now houses Douglas County offices.
John Charles (Jack) Robertson was an English-American contractor and builder who constructed some of the earliest important buildings in Portland, Oregon. During his career in Portland, he built the Labbe building, the Alisky building, the city's first high school building, later named Lincoln High School, and the First Presbyterian Church.
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