Leavitt Building & Masonic Hall

Built in 1893 by Dr. Granville I. Leavitt, a local doctor and Indian reservation doctor, this building housed the Masonic Lodge meeting hall upstairs, while downstairs was the Kash & Karry Unified Grocery until the late 1950s. The hall was used by Hope Lodge #22, F & A.M. until 1940. Designed to be fireproof, the building had iron doors, a roof, and window coverings. In 1897, during a threat of an Indian uprising, it served as a temporary fort for three days until a peace treaty could be drawn up.

Yerington, Nevada · United States