Northern Nevada buildings get official “historic” listing

Monday, March 6, 2000 | 10:06 a.m.

The Board of Museums and History approved the listing for the Farmers' Bank of Carson Valley in Minden and the Nystrom Guest House in Reno.

The Farmers' Bank of Carson Valley on Esmeralda Avenue was built in 1909 and served its original function for a decade. It was one of the first buildings H.F. Dangberg Jr. erected after he founded Minden in 1905.

The vacated bank building went on to house the Minden post office from 1919 to 1974 and today is occupied by a gourmet grocery.

The Nystrom Guest House on Ralston Street was built in 1875 in Gothic architectural style as the home of Washoe County Clerk J.S. Shoemaker.

It was named after Victor and Estelle Nystrom, who operated it as a rooming house in the 1940s and 1950s for people who rushed to Reno to take advantage of the state's liberalized divorce law. It now is operated as a rooming house by a daughter.

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