The Belknap House, at 1206 North Nevada Street in

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, is a historic house built in 1875. Also known as the Barber-Belknap House or the Beck-Barber-Belknap House, it includes

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. It was listed on the

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in 1997. It is a two-story building with

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siding. It is significant as the home, during 1881 to 1908, of Charles Henry Belknap, who was Chief Justice of the

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. It is significant also for association with Henry Hudson Beck, who had it built in 1870, and to Oscar T. Barber, a businessman and Nevada State Assembly representative, who owned it in between. And it is also significant as "an excellent example of a two-story Second Empire residential structure". and During the

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, the only known privately built atomic fallout shelter in Carson City was added to the property.

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