Nevada's Historic Buildings: A Cultural Legacy

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201 Notes Research on the buildings discussed in this book relied heavily on hundreds of grant applications submitted by project proponents. In addition, most of these buildings are listed in the State or National Register of Historic Places, and these nominations also served as valuable sources of information. Portions of this book are based on a manuscriptdevelopedbyElizabethSaffordHarveytitled“Art,Enlightenment,Culture: A Retrospective History of the Commission for Cultural Affairs” (2001). Although not cited individually here, the authors acknowledge these important documents, which are on file in Carson City, Nevada, at the State Historic Preservation Office. introduction 1. See Russell R. Elliott, The Turn of the Century Mining Boom. 1 n a territory of humble beginnings 1. For a discussion of the frontier and especially of Turner’s controversial view of the West, see Frederick Jackson Turner, “The Significance of the Frontier in American History” and “The Problem of the West.” See also Ray Allen Billington, Frederick Jackson Turner: Historian, Scholar, Teacher; Allan G. Bogue, Frederick Jackson Turner: Strange Roads Going Down; and John Mack Faragher, “‘A Nation Thrown Back Upon Itself’: Frederick Jackson Turner and the Frontier,” 1–10. 2. Sally Zanjani, Devils Will Reign: How Nevada Began. 3. Faragher, “‘A Nation Thrown Back Upon Itself,’” 9; Frederick Jackson Turner, “The Significance of the Section in American History,” 214. 4. Richard F. Burton, The City of the Saints, and Across the Rocky Mountains to California, 509. 5. Richard Gordon Lillard, Desert Challenge: An Interpretation of Nevada, 75. 6. James W. Hulse, The Silver State: Nevada’s Heritage Reinterpreted, 39–41, 187–89. 7. Ibid., 187; Stanley W. Paher, Las Vegas: As It Began—as It Grew. 8. A. D. Hopkins, “John C. Frémont,” in The First 100: Portraits of the Men and Women Who Shaped Las Vegas, edited by A. D. Hopkins and K. J. Evans, 2–3; Harold A. Steiner, “The Old Spanish Trail, 1829–1850”; Terri McBride, Exploration and Early Settlement in Nevada. 202 Notes 9. Zanjani, Devils Will Reign; A. D. Hopkins, “William Bringhurst,” in First 100, edited by Hopkins and Evans, 6–7. 10. K. J. Evans, “O. D. Gass,” in First 100, edited by Hopkins and Evans, 8. 11. The name also appears as Kyle. Contrary to standard German pronunciation, Kiel is pronounced with a long i. Historic American Buildings Survey, “Kiel Ranch, North Las Vegas, Nevada,” on file at the State Historic Preservation Office, Carson City. 12. Jim W. Steely, senior historical consultant with swca Environmental Consultants , interview, October 14, 2008. Steely was preparing a plan for the Kiel Ranch on behalf of the City of North Las Vegas. Thanks to Steely for his assistance. 13. Paher, Las Vegas, 57; K. J. Evans, “Helen Stewart,” in First 100, edited by Hopkins and Evans, 12. 14. Mella Rothwell Harmon and Guy L. Rocha, “Foreman-Roberts House.” The Nevada State Historic Preservation Office National Register of Historic Places files assert the 1859 date and then provide the 1863 correction. 15. Zanjani, Devils Will Reign. 16. The Winters Ranch also incorporated Egyptian Revival elements (Julie Nicoletta, Buildings of Nevada, 87). Members of the Roberts family lived in their Carson City home until 1969, when the youngest of the Roberts children, Thurman Roberts, died and bequeathed the property to the State of Nevada. The state turned the house over to Carson City, and since the structure needed extensive repairs, the city concluded that demolition was the only reasonable option. Nevertheless, the community rose up in defense of the aged house, and the Nevada Landmarks Society formed for the specific purpose of saving the house and converting it into a Victorianperiod museum and park. 17. Zanjani, Devils Will Reign. 18. Ronald M. James, Temples of Justice: County Courthouses of Nevada, 57. 19. Ibid., 59–60; Marlena Hellwinkel, “Memo to Elizabeth Safford Harvey,” 2002, on file at the State Historic Preservation Office, Carson City. 2 n a state of international fame 1. The concept of an emergent culture is discussed in Raymond Williams, Marxism and Literature, 122–27. For the early development of what would become Nevada, see Zanjani, Devils Will Reign; and Ronald M. James, The Roar and the Silence: A History of Virginia City and the Comstock Lode. Notes 203 2. On the discovery of gold, see Hubert Howe Bancroft, The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, 25:93; and Dayton Historic Society, “Gold!! The Key to Dayton’s Discovery,” http://www.dayton-valley.org/gold...