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Paint Shop

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c. 1915, Nevada Northern Railroad
  • Paint Shop (Bret Morgan)
  • Paint Shop (Julie Nicoletta)

Large forty-four-light, steel sash windows serve as walls in this two-story building set north of the engine house. Like many of the other buildings in the yards, the paint shop has a long rectangular plan (45 by 210 feet). Its function required a great deal of natural light; to supplement daylight from the window walls, a gable-roofed clerestory with thirty-two-light steel sashes rises above the standing-seam, metal-clad roof. Because of the structural weakness of the windowed walls and years of neglect, the building has become dangerously unstable. The museum is slowly restoring it.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Julie Nicoletta
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What's Nearby

Nevada Northern Railroad Yards
Freight and Express Building
Engine House
East Ely Passenger Depot
Centennial Fine Arts Center (Ely L.D.S. Stake Tabernacle)

Citation

Julie Nicoletta, "Paint Shop", [Ely, Nevada], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/NV-01-CE27.4.

Print Source

Buildings of Nevada, Julie Nicoletta. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000, 179-179.

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