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Photo, Print, Drawing Peter Dalton Ranch, 9005 South Virginia Street, Reno, Washoe County, NV

[ Photos from Survey HABS NV-22  ]

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[ Data Pages from Survey HABS NV-22  ]
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About this Item

Title

  • Peter Dalton Ranch, 9005 South Virginia Street, Reno, Washoe County, NV

Names

  • Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
  • Ferretto, Joseph
  • Bill, Barry, transmitter
  • Fisher, Martin, photographer
  • Koval, Ana B, historian
  • Boyne, Katherine, historian

Created / Published

  • Documentation compiled after 1933

Headings

  • -  ranches
  • -  agriculture
  • -  immigrants
  • -  Nevada -- Washoe County -- Reno

Notes

  • -  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.
  • -  Survey number: HABS NV-22
  • -  Building/structure dates: ca. 1868 Initial Construction
  • -  Building/structure dates: 1893 Subsequent Work
  • -  Building/structure dates: 1912 Subsequent Work
  • -  Building/structure dates: 1926 Subsequent Work

Medium

  • Photo(s): 7
  • Data Page(s): 22
  • Photo Caption Page(s): 1

Call Number/Physical Location

  • HABS NEV,16-RENO,2-

Source Collection

  • Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)

Repository

  • Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Control Number

  • nv0122

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Chicago citation style:

Historic American Buildings Survey, Creator, Joseph Ferretto, Ana B Koval, and Katherine Boyne, Fisher, Martin, photographer. Peter Dalton Ranch,South Virginia Street, Reno, Washoe County, NV. Reno Washoe County Nevada, 1933. translateds by Bill, Barrymitter Documentation Compiled After. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/nv0122/.

APA citation style:

Historic American Buildings Survey, C., Ferretto, J., Koval, A. B. & Boyne, K., Fisher, M., photographer. (1933) Peter Dalton Ranch,South Virginia Street, Reno, Washoe County, NV. Reno Washoe County Nevada, 1933. Bill, B., trans Documentation Compiled After. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/nv0122/.

MLA citation style:

Historic American Buildings Survey, Creator, et al., photographer by Fisher, Martin. Peter Dalton Ranch,South Virginia Street, Reno, Washoe County, NV. trans by Bill, Barrymitter Documentation Compiled After. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/nv0122/>.