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Wungnema House
Look at this beauty! It’s the Wungnema House located in Carson City, Nevada. The original builders/owners of the Wungnema House, were Burton and Pearl Wungnema. Their name, Wungnema, is Hopi for “grow”, as in growing corn. Both of them … Continue reading
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Tagged Brunswick Canyon, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Carson City, Ernest Wungnema, Fallon, Homer S. Talas, Hopi Indians, Hopi Nation, McQueen Family, Mills Park Golf Course, Native American Stonemasons, Pearl Wungnema, Stewart Indian School, Talas Family, V&T Roundhouse, Wonderstone, Wungnema
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Honoring the Native American Stonemasons at Christmas
Every year since 2002, the Downtown Redevelopment Citizens Committee of Carson City has issued a Christmas ornament featuring a historic building in the city. The ornaments are designed to highlight the city’s historic and unique buildings. The 2018 ornament featured … Continue reading
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Tagged Burton Wungnema, Carson City, National Register of Historic Places, Native American Stonemasons, Pearl Talas, Purple Avocado, Stewart Cultural Center and Museum, Stewart Indian School, the Downtown Redevelopment Citizens Committee of Carson City, Wungnema, Wungnema House
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More Pratt Avenue
Pratt Street – This street has an additional stone house, a house that used to have a stone facade and a house that used to feature a pink stone fireplace. Let’s take a look at them! According to the Carson … Continue reading
South Pratt Avenue
This house in Carson City was built in 1934 in the Stewart Vernacular style of masonry. As with the other stone houses on the street, it was built by the master and student stonemasons from the Stewart Indian School. The … Continue reading
Quarries and Stones
Let’s talk about the stones used locally by the Native American stonemasons in their many construction projects. The masons used a combination of quarried and found stones, the primary stone being Rhyolite. The quarried stones came from quarries in Carson … Continue reading