Significant Structures

Veeder Carriage House; SW corner Valencia and Hot Springs; Tudor (Jacobethan) Revival; 1902-08; 1 1/2 stories, intersecting gables; common bond brick walls; pressed metal "imbricated shingle" roof; half timbering in gables; 6/6 double-hung windows; single door with side lights and transom; projecting gable supported by wooden brackets on engaged brick pendants.

First National Bank (West Las Vegas Schools); 181 Bridge, St. Register #310; 1882; Italianate; 2 stories; rusticated or finished light brown ashlar sandstone walls with dark brown banded piers, string courses and windowhoods; pressed metal cornice with brackets and urns, fixed windows with small leaded glass transoms (1st), covered (2nd); double doors topped by dentils, pediment and transom.

Rosenwald Building; 205 S. Plaza; St Register #618; World's Fair Classic (WFC); 1908-13; 1 story; brick walls with sandstone accents; covered windows with leaded glass transoms; double doors with side lights and transom, flanked by banded piers with composite sandstone capitals; entrance projects and parapet is raised; pressed metal dentil cornice and parapet cap.

Courtroom Building; 213 S. Plaza; Italianate; 1881; 2 stories;rubble sandstone side and rear walls, brick front; fixed windows with bricked-over transoms, cast iron columns and pressed metal cornice (1st); 1/1 double-hung windows with arched brick recess with "keystones;" pressed metal cornice.#141 (California Store); 247 S. Plaza; W.F.C.; 1908-13; 1 story; tan brick front and part of side, red brick sides and rear; fixed windows; double doors with transom; banded brick piers with cream-colored terra cotta (t.c) capitals supporting t.c. frieze with brick dentils; t.c. dentil cornice and parapet cap.

Elmer and John Veeder Building; 1809/11/13 W. Plaza; decorative brick (Moorish overtones); 1898; 2 stories; yellow/brown brick; 2 store fronts, fixed windows and double doors with transom; brick piers with sandstone capitals support metal cornice; recessed centered entry with wrought iron "frieze;" 1/1 double-hung windows with continuous dentil sill and molding brick frame; corner and entrance "finials;" elaborate cornice with variety of molding brick cornices, recessed panels and decorative patterns.

John Veeder Building; 1815 W. Plaza; Italianate; 1880; 2 stories; rubble sandstone side and rear walls; fixed windows, double door and single door entrance, transoms; cast iron balcony; 1/1 double-hung windows with sandstone hood over round windows pointed on top; brick banded and with geometric designs (2nd); mixtilinear pressed metal cornice with brackets and urns.

Charles Ilfeld Building; 224 N. Plaza; Italianate; St. Register #140? 1882 first 1/3 (left), 1890 remaining 2/3 (right); Italianate; 3 stories finished ashlar sandstone walls (front), stone rubble (sides and rear); basement light wells with iron grills; fixed windows, some with molding lintel and transom, 2 single doors with transoms; chamfered, banded and incised dark brown sandstone piers, bracketed cornice; rusticated dark brown sandstone quoins at corners and division between 1st and 2nd stage; 1/1 double-hung windows paired with bracketed segmental hood with rosettes and continuous sill (2nd) or projecting stone sill with ears and bracketed "flat arch" hood with lions' heads; pressed metal cornice with brackets.

Louis Ilfeld Building; 220 N. Plaza; St. Register #538; W.F.C.; 1921; 1 story; sandstone foundation; brick (front & side), adobe (side), stone (side); small basement window with splayed sandstone lintel with keystones; 1/1 double-hung windows in Palladian group, continuous sill, dentil lintel and leaded transom; single door with arched leaded transom flanked by brick pilasters on continuous (window) sill and "supporting" entablature; facade steps back at windows, forward at entrance; stepping parapet with cap.

Dice Apartments; 210/18 N. Plaza; St. Register #265; N.M. Vernacular; ca. 1840, remodeled ca. 1870; 1 story; stucco over adobe; 5 pairs 1/1 double-hung windows; 5 single doors with transoms; pressed metal corner piers, transom piers and cornice.

Romero Block; 174/78 Bridge Street; Mission Style; 1919; 2 stories, brick walls; 4 store fronts (?); fixed windows with transoms, 4 single doors, 1 double door; 6/1 double-hung windows with continuous concrete sill (2nd); 2nd floor corner pavillions project slightly and have bracketed tile-covered hoods; stepping parapet.

Plaza Park; 1836 space defined; 1880 first trees and picket fence; ca. 1910 encircling and winding sidewalks, irregularly planted trees, Romantic Garden Style; 1983/4 refurbishing, new bandstand in Stick Style Revival. - NRHP, 14 August 1985