Henry Piper House

Historic building in Nevada, US

United States historic place


Henry Piper House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places


39°18′42″N 119°38′59″W / 39.31167°N 119.64972°W / 39.31167; -119.64972
Built	1875
Built by	Henry Piper
NRHP reference No.	11000254^[1]
Added to NRHP	May 4, 2011

The Henry Piper House, in Virginia City, Nevada, United States, is a historic house that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). It is operated as a bed and breakfast, the B Street House Bed and Breakfast, and is the only bed and breakfast in an individually-NRHP-listed house in Virginia City.^[2] The house was built after the Great Fire of 1875, which destroyed much of Virginia City, and was completed by December.^[2] The house was renovated into a bed and breakfast during 2004–2007, and it received a Nevada state historic preservation award for its renovation in 2008.^[3] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.^[1]

Henry moved to Virginia City in 1861 with his older brother John. The two maintained local political careers and partnered in the running of Piper's Opera House as well as the Piper's Corner Saloon on B and Union Streets.^[4] Henry served in the Nevada Assembly for one term later becoming a "box herder" at Piper's Opera House. His job was the management of the often drunk and disorderly women of the demimonde and youthful miners who attended the Opera House productions.^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b "New listings, week of May 13, 2011". National Park Service.
^ ^a ^b "B Street House Bed and Breakfast". Archived from the original on April 4, 2014.
^ "B Street Bed and Breakfast". Sierra Nevada tourism.^{[permanent dead link]}
^ Eichin, Carolyn Grattan, "The Piper Brothers' Business of Amusements, Piper's Corner Bar," Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, 56, no. 3-4 Fall/Winter 2013, 151-166
^ Eichin, Carolyn Grattan, From San Francisco Eastward: Victorian Theater in the American West, (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2020), 42-44, 118-120, 1948908387 (ISBN 9781948908382)