In the late 1890s, the southeast quarter of this block was owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and used as a tithing lot, where church members gave in-kind donations of fruit, crops, and other goods that were distributed to the poor. The tithing office was an adobe room over a rock cellar, and the fenced lot also had a barn for storing hay. In the early 1920s, after the land was purchased from the LDS Church, the Hughes and Frehner Store was built on this site; it later became the Valley Inn Bar and was then rebuilt, using the same cement walls, as the Golden West Restaurant and Casino. Around 1923, the Pulsipher family turned a granary from the old tithing lot into a one-room home beside the store, but within a year they had outgrown it and Howard built a new concrete house on the same lot, plastered inside and out, the first home in the Virgin Valley to have running water and an indoor bathtub.