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Nevada State Children’s Home

Category

Architecture

Marker Type

Blue marker

Nevada Historical Marker Number

Nevada State Children’s Home is Nevada Historical Marker #72.

Carson City is home to 26 Nevada State Historical Markers and the links to each are below for you to research to see if you want to add to your exploration list.

  1. #1 Empire and the Carson River Mills
  2. #25 Nevada’s Capitol
  3. #44 Carson City
  4. #70 Bliss Mansion
  5. #71 Methodist Church of Carson City
  6. #72 Nevada State Children’s Home
  7. #75 Federal Government Building (1888- 1970)
  8. #76 Eagle Valley
  9. #77 Dat-So-La-Lee
  10. #78 Orion Clemens Home
  11. #91 Stewart Indian School
  12. #134 Trans-Sierran Pioneer Flight
  13. #175 Stewart – Nye Residence
  14. #179 First Air Flight Over Nevada
  15. #180 The Warm Springs Hotel and Nevada State Prison
  16. #181 Washoe Indians
  17. #193 Historic Flume and Lumberyard
  18. #194 Gardner’s Ranch
  19. #196 The United States Mint Carson City, Nevada
  20. #213 Lakeview
  21. #235 Camp Nye
  22. #243 Corbett-Fitzsimmon Fight
  23. #250 State Printing Building
  24. #252 Rinckel Mansion
  25. #258 Charles W. Friend House, Observatory & Weather Station
  26. #259 The Governor’s Mansion

Click here to view the full list of Nevada State Historical Markers.

Nevada State Children’s Home History

Children’s facilities first opened here in 1864. The site went through many changes but continued to serve children’s needs until 1992.

County

Carson City, Nevada

GPS Coordinates

39.160038, -119.764359

How to Get to Nevada State Children’s Home

Located at the intersection of S. Stewart Street and E. 7th Street in Carson City, Nevada.

Nevada Historical Marker Transcription

The Nevada Orphans’ Asylum, a privately funded institution, was opened in Virginia City in 1864 by the Daughters of Charity.  By 1870, most of its functions were taken over by the Nevada State Orphans’ Home at Carson City, authorized in 1869 by the legislature and constructed on this site.  The first child was admitted October 28, 1870.

In 1903, the first building gave way to a larger one, constructed of sandstone from the state prison quarry east of Carson City.  This edifice served until 1963 as Nevada’s home for dependent and neglected children.  In 1951, its name was changed to the Nevada State Children’s Home. 

The stone building was in turn replaced in 1963, in accordance with the modern concept of family-sized groups housed in cottages.  The facility closed in 1992.

STATE HISTORICAL MARKER NO.  72

COMMEMORATING A CENTURY OF STATE SERVICE TO THE

CHILDREN OF NEVADA

CARSON CITY HISTORICAL COMMISSION

STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICE

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Nevada State Children’s Home