Parley Hunt House is a historic home in

Bunkerville, Nevada Bunkerville is a census-designated place in Clark County, Nevada, United States. The population was 1,303 at the 2010 census. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the census-designated place of Bunkerville (which may not coi ...

which was listed on the

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in 1991. It is a one-story stone hall and parlor plan house built by Parley Hunt in 1907, for use by himself and his mother. It was originally a three-room L-shaped house, with a rear room used for cooking. With

Description

The Parley Hunt House is situated in Bunkerville, Nevada which is a

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close to the Utah border. The village houses one thousand people and it is eighty miles northeast of Las Vegas. At the Bunkerville plat, it is located on tract thirty seven, section twenty five. The house is placed on Canal Street, it is named so because of th
irrigation canal
that runs alongside it. Surrounded on three sides by a

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, the house is built on a site of 0.824 acre. Though the Parley Hunt House is in fine state, it retains only a middling degree of integrity on account of large-scal
upgradation
On the site, there are 3 non-contributing buildings which consist of 1 small, single story gable-roofed wood frame dwelling to the east of the house, and 2 wooden sheds on the western border of the site. It also has a

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and quite a few fruit trees to the north of the residence. The structure has nouvelle aluminum windows, a composition roof, a plastic bubble skylight and an updated interior. It possesses a modernized version of concrete block

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as well which is in between the 2 south, front rooms on the interior. In the southeast room, a fashionable kitchen has been built. Currently, the

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is opened up over the south-west room. It has a couple of loft bedrooms. The back, northwest room has been bisected into a bedroom, bath an
corridor

History and Context

Parley Smith Hunt stayed in the house till 1915. Prior to the 1950s, no less than 3 owners were changed when Mr. Freeman bought and refashioned the Parley Hunt House. Mr. Freeman changed the design of the loft as described in the previous section. Also the kitchen was appended by him during this modification. The structure was first completed by Mr. Parley with 3 rooms including the room at the back which was used as a kitchen. It had a big fireplace between the 2 rooms of the front. The

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of the back room was linked to a 2nd

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. The redesign activities were continued by the 2 following owners

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and Nick Bartlett. The redecoration process included the change of windows from

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, and also from the first fireplace to the concrete block. A tiny living place to the east of the main structure was constructed by Bartlett for his son. The modification made by the present owners of the Parley Hunt House includes the insert o
insulation and gypsum board
to walls and

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s the changes at the roof.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hunt, Parley, House Houses in Clark County, Nevada Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Nevada National Register of Historic Places in Clark County, Nevada Residential buildings in the Las Vegas Valley Houses completed in 1907