Modern Federal · Opera houses

Scene of the Thompson's Opera House alongside the Gem Theater in the old mining town of Pioche, which appears to hang along the side of a mountain and in a bowl below in Nevada's high desert, near the state's eastern border with Utah

Nevada · 1850–1939

Scene of the Thompson's Opera House alongside the Gem Theater in the old mining town of Pioche, which appears to hang along the side of a mountain and in a bowl below in Nevada's high desert, near the state's eastern border with Utah, Nevada, 1850–1939
Scene of the Thompson's Opera House alongside the Gem Theater in the old mining town of Pioche, which appears to hang along the side of a mountain and in a bowl below in Nevada's high desert, near the state's eastern border with Utah, Nevada, 1850–1939. Opera houses — Modern Federal Architecture, from the Library of Congress record.

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