The Carson City Public Buildings, on Carson Street in

Carson City, Nevada Carson City, officially the Carson City Consolidated Municipality, is an Independent city (United States), independent city and the capital of the U.S. state of Nevada. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 58,63 ...

is a set of historic buildings dating back to 1920. There are three

contributing buildings In the law regulating historic districts in the United States, a contributing property or contributing resource is any building, object, or structure which adds to the historical integrity or architectural qualities that make the historic dist ...

. The set was listed on the

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in 1987. The three are the Nevada State Supreme Court Building, the Ormsby County Courthouse (of the former

Ormsby County, Nevada Ormsby County was a county in Nevada Territory from 1861 to 1864 and in the State of Nevada from 1864 until 1969. It contained Carson City, the county seat, and later, the state capital, founded two years earlier. Name It was named after Majo ...

which was dissolved in 1969), and the Heroes Memorial Building, designed by Nevada premier architect Frederick J. DeLongchamps.

References

National Register of Historic Places in Carson City, Nevada Neoclassical architecture in Nevada Streamline Moderne architecture in the United States Government buildings completed in 1920 Government buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Nevada Frederic Joseph DeLongchamps buildings {{Nevada-NRHP-stub