Charles Arthur Hughes Home

Around 1901, Charles Arthur Hughes and his family first lived in a lumber granary and an old rock house, then traded for this lot and built a sixteen-foot square one-room home. Hughes borrowed Jim's team and wagon and worked at the sawmill to get lumber for the family's first house. The structure was braced on rocks with a lumber floor laid on top, walls and roof made of 12-inch lumber, and 6-inch boards nailed over the cracks. Its ceiling was made of factory cloth, and its south fireplace and chimney were adobe. All 13 children lived in that single room until about 1923, when the present Hughes homestead was built in front of the old house. The new home, which still stands, was made of adobe and block formed beside the house from clay gathered around the cemetery, and materials from the old one-room house were reused for the new roof.

Mesquite, Nevada · United States