Description

The property is well located in the city of Lovelock, Nevada. Cornell is the primary business street for Lovelock. There are 37 motel rooms plus a large lobby with a wood burning fireplace and registration area and an Owner' s quarters that is a separate modular home. The property also includes a parking area that is large enough for commercial tractor trailer trucks.

The 37 unit Inn was completed in the spring of 1949. The 16,000 sq. ft. ranch style building is surrounded by a six foot porch. The property was designed by Paul Williams, the designer for the stars . In 1948/1949 it was the ultimate design and model for a motel in the desert. It is constructed of native Nevada stone, pink in coloring, mined near Carson City. The special thick tile in the bathrooms looks as good today as it did the day it was installed over 60 years ago. The building cost $260,000 to construct in 1949 and spared no expenses, even installing copper pipes though out. The knotty pine, rock maple and rustic wormwood used for the interior were transported by rail from Oregon. The bricks for the building were all fired on the property, while the rocks in the fireplace were from the Humboldt River.

Lovelock owes its formal beginning to the railroad, but was important to travelers many years before the first train arrived. The site was known to pioneers of the 1840s and 1850s as Big Meadows because it was an important place to rest and water animals before crossing the Forty Mile Desert. James Blake is credited with establishing the first permanent settlement there in 1861, but he later sold his property and stage station to George Lovelock, who arrived in 1866. Lovelock donated eighty acres of his ranch to the Central Pacific Railroad to establish the town that now bears his name.

The Central Pacific Railroad arrived in Lovelock in 1868, stimulating the area¹s agricultural and livestock industries. The town also served as a distribution center for several mining districts including the Trinity and Rochester. Today gold mining is still an important part of the economy. Nevada is the 3rd largest producer of gold in the world after South Afric and New Zealand.