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Stone Cellar

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1870s
  • (Photograph by Julie Nicoletta)

The one-and-one-half-story stone cellar about ten feet behind the main house contained the large quantities of food necessary to feed the family and the hired hands on the ranch. The sandstone for the walls, from the Nevada State Prison quarry in Carson City, is laid in random courses and mortared with thick grooved joints. The building also has a sandstone floor and screened storage cabinets to store perishable goods.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Julie Nicoletta
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What's Nearby

Main House
Dangberg Home Ranch
Bunkhouse
Barn
Slaughterhouse and Hide House

Citation

Julie Nicoletta, "Stone Cellar", [Minden, Nevada], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/NV-01-NW095.2.

Print Source

Buildings of Nevada, Julie Nicoletta. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000, 120-121.

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