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Historic House Museums in Nevada

We try to keep this list of historic house museums for Nevada current, but it is best to check directly with the museums for their hours and other information. If you know of a historic house museum in Nevada that should be listed here, please use our submission form to let us know about it.

Carson City

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Bowers Mansion

Franktown Rd.
Carson City, NV 
Phone: (775) 849-0201

Year Built: 1863
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The Bowers Mansion was built in 1863 by Lemuel "Sandy" Bowers and his wife, Eilley, and is the finest example of the homes built in Nevada by the new millionaires of the Comstock mining boom.

Henderson

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Clark County Museum

1830 S. Boulder Hwy.
Henderson, NV  89002
Phone: (702) 455-7955

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Admission Price: Adults $2, Seniors & Children $1
Hours: 9-4:30pm Daily
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The museum is a 30-acre site that features a modern exhibit hall with a timeline exhibit about southern Nevada from pre-historic to modern times and a collection of restored historic buildings that depict daily life from different decades in Las Vegas, Boulder City, Henderson, and Goldfield.

Incline Village

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Thunderbird Lodge (Whittell Mansion)

969 Tahoe Blvd
Lake Tahoe
Incline Village, NV  89450
Phone: (775) 832-8750

Year Built: 1936
Admission Price: Tours by Land $39 Adults, $19 Children; water tour
Hours: By Reservation Only, Tue-Sat, May-Oct
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Using a California Gold Rush inheritance, enigmatic San Francisco bon vivant Geo. Whittell Jr. constructed his Castle-in-the-Sky, Thunderbird Lodge, in the midst of a vast land holding spanning the entire length of Lake Tahoe's Nevada shoreline. Vistors experience the animal barns, guest cottages, a stone Card House perched high on the bluff above a man-made lagoon, and a 600' secret tunnel leading to the steel boathouse blasted from a granite hillside, home to the famous 55' long art-deco wooden speedboat THUNDERBIRD. The Thunderbird Lodge National Historic Site is open to the public for guided tours, weddings, special and corporate events.

Lovelock

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Marzen House Museum

25 Marzen Lane
Lovelock, NV  89419
Phone: (775) 273-7213

Year Built: 1874
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The Marzen House Museum features antique mining equipment, including several large-scale pieces that can be found on the museum grounds, vintage home fixtures and other antiquities from pioneer homes, relics and artifacts dating back to the region’s earliest Native American inhabitants, and a display dedicated to the Immigrant Trail. One of the museum’s most interesting displays is a representation of an Indian cave known locally as the Lovelock Cave.

Virginia City

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Mackay Mansion

291 S. D St.
Virginia City, NV  89440
Phone: (775) 847-0373

Year Built: 1860
Admission Price: Call for info
Hours: 10am-6pm Daily
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The 1860 home of silver king John Mackay includes collections of silver and original furnishings.

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