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HB856183
View Of Ranch From U
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HB856184
View Of Ranch From U
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HB856185
View Of Outbuildings Facing Northwest
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HB856186
View Of Wash House Facing Southwest.
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HB856187
View Of Bunk House In Foreground And Other Outbuildings In Background Facing Northwest.
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HB856188
View Of Garage Facing West.
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HB856189
View Of Outbuildings And Dairy/pump House Facing East.
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Location9005 South Virginia Street,
Reno, NV
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1933.
Notes
Survey number HABS NV-22
Building/structure dates:
1868 initial construction
Building/structure dates:
1893 subsequent work
Building/structure dates:
1912 subsequent work
Building/structure dates:
1926 subsequent work
Significance: The Dalton-Ferretto Ranch is eligible to the National Register as a district; the four major buildings and the ten outbuildings located on approximately six acres with fencing, an orchard, and other landscape features form an intact late nineteenth century and early twentieth century ranch complex. This ranch is one of the few extant Truckee Meadows ranches. The ranch is eligible under criterion A. Ranching was the major industry in the Truckee Meadows from shortly after gold was discovered on the Comstock until the middle of the twentieth century. At the turn-of-the-century, agriculture was the largest industry in Washoe County and Reno was the largest city in Nevada. The ranch was owned by Peter Dalton from 1870 to 1910 and Joseph Ferretto and family from 1912 to the present. Dalton cultivated hay and grain, raised cattle, and conducted a dairy. The Ferretto family, an important Italian family in the area, purchased the property in 1912 and Joseph Ferretto ran the ranch. The ranch produced mostly alfalfa and wheat and fed beef cattle during the winter. The buildings extant on the ranch date from 1868 and includes two houses (1893 and 1926), a barn (circa 1868), a dairy and pump house (circa 1860s and 1912) and ten smaller outbuildings.
Subjects
AgricultureImmigrantsRanches
Related Names
Ferretto, Joseph
Fisher, Martin, Photographer
Koval, Ana B., Historian
Boyne, Katherine, Historian
Collection
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
Contents
Photograph caption(s):
1. VIEW OF RANCH FROM U. S. HIGHWAY 395 FACING SOUTH.
2. VIEW OF RANCH FROM U. S. HIGHWAY 395 FACING NORTHWEST.
3. VIEW OF OUTBUILDINGS FACING NORTHWEST. REMNANTS OF SHEEP HERDER'S TRAILER IN FOREGROUND.
4. VIEW OF WASH HOUSE FACING SOUTHWEST.
5. VIEW OF BUNK HOUSE IN FOREGROUND AND OTHER OUTBUILDINGS IN BACKGROUND FACING NORTHWEST.
6. VIEW OF GARAGE FACING WEST.
7. VIEW OF OUTBUILDINGS AND DAIRY/PUMP HOUSE FACING EAST.
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