Silver Nugget Cafe

Silver Nugget Cafe

Silver Nugget Cafe Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
1898, J. L. Murphy. 740 Main St. (southwest corner of 8th Ave.)

This corner commercial block retains its cast iron columns and a plate glass storefront beneath a fancy cornice. It opened, according to an 1898 newspaper account, as “a saloon with a female rooming attachment on the second floor.” In 1992 the upstairs bordello reopened as a bed and breakfast with seven small bedrooms, a bath, and a parlor.

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