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David Smaill House

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c. 1876, David Smaill. 313 W. Ann St.
  • David Smaill House (Bret Morgan)
  • (Photograph by Julie Nicoletta)

This one-story gabled building represents a type of house commonly constructed in the late nineteenth century. Many miners and tradesmen in northern Nevada built individualistic, eclectic, and highly decorative houses. The Smaill House uses Eastlake-inspired wood porch trim and has an exuberant carved bargeboard; a gable pendant, often seen in houses of this type during that period; and a framed circular vent. Builders constructed the shell of a house and then applied prefabricated wood ornamentation.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Julie Nicoletta
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What's Nearby

Masonic Temple (Virginia and Truckee Passenger Depot)
Northern Nevada Children's Museum (Civic Auditorium)
Carson City Historic District
Nevada State Museum (U.S. Mint)
Orion Clemens House

Citation

Julie Nicoletta, "David Smaill House", [Carson City, Nevada], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/NV-01-NW078.1.

Print Source

Buildings of Nevada, Julie Nicoletta. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000, 109-109.

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