U.S. Mint
a.k.a. Mint Building;Nevada State Museum
600 N. Carson St., Carson City (Independent City), NVThe building has regional significance as the first structure to be constructed from the plans of Alfred Bult Mullett (1834-1890), who served as Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department from 1866, until 1874. "His tenure of office coincided with an accelerated government building program following the Civil War, and Mullett was responsible for the design of many public buildings in cities and towns throughout the country. The buildings erected by the Treasury Department while Mullett held the office of Supervising Architect are unexcelled by any American structures of their time in scale and solidity of construction."
Other structures in the West designed by Mullett were the Custom House in Portland, Oregon, and the old San Francisco Mint.
The building has local significance in its relationship to the mining boom on the Comstock. As the outpouring of precious metals increased, problems in its transportation to the nearest mint arose. The solution was the construction of a U.S. Mint in the tiny hamlet of Carson City. The transportation problem centered on the risks and high cost of sending large amounts of bullion by wagon and train to San Francisco. Again, the Superintendent of Construction, and later the Mint's first Superintendent was Abraham Curry, the founder of Carson City.
Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
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