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Mizpah Hotel
Location: 100 Main St., Tonopah, Nevada Coordinates: 38°4′5″N 117°13′48″W / 38.06806°N 117.23°WCoordinates: 38°4′5″N 117°13′48″W / 38.06806°N 117.23°W Built: 1905 Architect: M.J. Curtis Architectural style: Other Governing body: Private MPS: Tonopah MRA (AD) NRHP Reference#: 78001725 Added to NRHP: July 07, 1978[1] The Mizpah Hotel is a historic hotel in Tonopah, Nevada. The five-story Mizpah was the tallest building in Nevada until 1929.[2] It was named after the Mizpah Mine[3] and was the social hub of Tonopah. The hotel was pre-dated by the Mizpah Saloon, which opened in 1907, and was the first permanent structure in Tonopah.[4][5] The hotel was financed by George Wingfield, George Nixon, Cal Brougher and Bob Govan and designed by George E. Holesworth of Reno, Nevada[4] (other sources state that the architect was Morrill J. Curtis). Brougher in particular was involved with the Belmont, Tonopah, Midway and Tonopah Mining Company and the Tonopah Divide Mining Company. Brougher owned the Tonopah Banking Corporation, which had an office in the lobby of the 1905 building, and was a director of the Bank of Italy in San Francisco.[6]
The reinforced concrete hotel was faced with stone on the front and brick on the sides and rear. The neighboring three-story Brougher-Govan Block, with rooms on the upper floors, served as the first Mizpah and remains connected. Cast iron columns were used in the windows and fire escapes. The three and five story buildings are joined with a wood stairway crowned with a skylight.. Steam heat was provided, along with the first elevator in Tonopah.[4]
According to legend, Wyatt Earp kept the saloon, Jack Dempsey was a bouncer, and Howard Hughes married Jean Peters at the Mizpah. But Wyatt Earp left Tonopah before the Mizpah was built, Hughes was married in Tonopah, but not at the Mizpah, and Dempsey asserted he was never a bouncer.[7] The hotel nevertheless features the Jack Dempsey Room and the Wyatt Earp Bar.[2]
The hotel has been shuttered since 1999. In early 2011, the hotel was purchased by new owners who plan to renovate and reopen the building to the public by August 2011.[8] The hotel was featured in season 5, episode 2 of Ghost Adventures on the Travel Channel.[9]
The Mizpah Hotel is now open and currently features a restaurant, a bar and 47 rooms. Near the bar is a walk-in safe from when the hotel housed a bank. There are plans to renovate further rooms in the hotel annex, to bring the total to 56, and to add a small casino.See also
- Goldfield Hotel designed by Curtis and Holesworth
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2008-04-15. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html.
- ^ a b Chereb, Sandra (2004-03-28). "Historic Mizpah Hotel will be restored to former glory by new investors". San Diego Union-Tribune. http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040328/news_1h28mizpah.html. Retrieved 2008-11-03.
- ^ "Tonopah and Goldfield: They Were the Hub of Nevada's Gold Rush". Rock and Gem Magazine. 2008-11-03. http://www.rockhounds.com/rockgem/articles/tonopah_goldfield.html.
- ^ a b c Nicoletta, Julie (2000). "Tonopah". Buildings of Nevada. Oxford University Press. pp. 191–192. ISBN 0-19-514139-3.
- ^ Gold, Herbert (1982-06-27). "Tonopah: Survivor of Mining Days". New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=travel&res=9F04E1D6153BF934A15755C0A964948260. Retrieved 2008-11-03.
- ^ Monteiro, Joseph P. (February 1978). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination: Mizpah Hotel". National Park Service. http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NRHP/Text/78001725.pdf. Retrieved 2009-05-18.
- ^ Rocha, Guy. "Myth #34 - What Didn't Happen at Tonopah's Mizpah Hotel!". Nevada State Library and Archives. http://nsla.nevadaculture.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=706&Itemid=418. Retrieved 31 July 2011.
- ^ "Century-old Tonopah Hotel Re-open". My News 3 Las Vegas. 2011-05-24. http://www.mynews3.com/story.php?id=43815&n=5037.
- ^ "Mizpah Hotel". travelchannel.com. http://www.travelchannel.com/TV_Shows/Ghost_Adventures/Photos/mizpah-hotel. Retrieved 2 October 2011.
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