Winnemucca Hotel — Winnemucca, NV - U.S. National Register of Historic Places on Waymarking.com

The following information from the National Register files:

The Winnemucca Hotel is located on a 0.38-acre parcel at 95 Bridge Street in Winnemucca, Nevada. The hotel’s plan is a complex one. The building, which is likely the oldest building in Winnemucca, was constructed in four sections between 1863 and 1915. The earliest section (1863), which housed the dining room, saloon, and hotel office, is a 2-1/2-story frame structure on a stone foundation and covered with composition siding over shiplap board. It faces Bridge Street and has a medium-pitched end-gabled roof with boxed eaves. Fenestration consists of double-hung windows and an entrance inset at the east corner. The original nineteenth-century porch was removed after 1910. The original ornate bar is still in use in this section of the building. The bar is reported to have been shipped around Cape Horn during the Civil War and laboriously transported to Winnemucca by wagon, presumably from San Francisco.

The second section to be built is attached to the north side of the original building facing Bridge Street. This section was constructed ca. 1872 by David Giroux, who had acquired ownership of the building the previous year. He initially contemplated demolishing the hotel and building a new one, but instead, he decided to expand the existing facility. This two-story, red-brick addition housed more hotel rooms. It has a hipped roof and unusual second-story bay windows at each end. The entrance is centrally-placed with two double-hung windows on each side of the door and two above.

The third section (1875), which faces First Street and housed hotel rooms, was constructed of adobe bricks. The adobe was coated in stucco and is likely the earliest use of that material in Winnemucca. This two-story section is attached to the rear of the original section. It has a flat roof and an un ornamented facade comprising evenly-spaced double-hung windows on both stories.

The Winnemucca Hotel was eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places for its role in the history of commerce in Winnemucca and for its association with Basque sheepherders. The Winnemucca Hotel is one of the oldest buildings in town. The hotel first served wagon teams, miners, and stageline operators. With the arrival of the Central Pacific Railroad in 1869, it added rail passengers to its list of patrons and after 1919, the hotel served as a boardinghouse for Basque sheepherders.