Martin Hotel

Built in 1913. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

From the record

“Railroad St. in Winnemucca, Nevada, was built in 1913. It is a historic hotel building, known also as Lafayette Hotel Annex and as Roman Tavern, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.”
Wikipedia article Martin Hotel (Winnemucca, Nevada), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Humboldt County · listed in 2003 · category: Building · built in 1913.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 94 W. Railroad St., Winnemucca, 89445
When was it listed? October 2003
Category. building
Census division. Winnemucca
When was it built? 1913
National Register reference number. 03001067 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

172 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 172 fires within 5 miles of Martin Hotel between 1992 and 2020, burning about 18,390 acres in total. 24 started naturally. 8 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Recreation and ceremony	43
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	39
Equipment and vehicle use	32
Natural	24
Arson/incendiarism	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Fireworks	5
Debris and open burning	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Firearms and explosives use	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Smoking	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
4 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.6 acres	Winnemucca District Office	HUSKER
3 September 1995	Natural	1.5 acres	Winnemucca District Office	WINN MT
27 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Winnemucca District Office	LUPINE
26 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Winnemucca District Office	SUNNY DR
20 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Winnemucca District Office	MM 173
20 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Winnemucca District Office	MM 180
20 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	5.9 acres	Winnemucca District Office	MM 182
20 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	5.9 acres	Winnemucca District Office	MM 183

Every fire recorded in Humboldt County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 44 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 44 workings within 5 miles of Martin Hotel: 16 past producers, 10 occurrences, 6 unknowns, 6 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Mercury, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Adamson Mine	Gold, Mercury, Silver, Barium-Barite	Past Producer	1911
Clay Pit	Clay	Unknown
Humboldt Reduction Works	Gold, Silver, Mercury, Lead, Copper, Arsenic	Past Producer
Min-Ad Mill	Limestone, General	Producer	1977
Ole Bull Mine	Lead, Zinc, Silver	Past Producer	Vein
Pride of the Mountain Mine	Silver, Gold, Lead, Copper	Past Producer	1863, 1868
Vulcan Mine	Iron, Mercury	Occurrence	Bournonite, Cinnabar, Hematite, Limonite, Pyrite
Vulcan Mine	Mercury, Iron	Prospect
Winnemucca Mountain Mine	Gold, Lead, Molybdenum, Silver, Copper	Prospect
Pride of the Mountain Mine	Gold, Silver	Unknown

Every working recorded in Humboldt County

Storms near this property

9 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Winnemucca, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 4 flash flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2009	Flash Flood	Winnemucca	$30,000	Flashing flooding caused mud to flow across two downtown streets as well as causing a sinkhole to develop. Also, a basement of a house at the corner of East Second and See streets was flooded and damaged. Flood waters and mud made its way through the Hi-Desert RV Park and into a golf cart shed at the golf course.
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Winnemucca	$2,000	no account filed
August 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Winnemucca	$500	Thunderstorm winds blew down 1 foot diameter trees at the Winnemucca golf course.
September 2023	Flash Flood	Winnemucca	-	Flooding of all lanes occurred at East 4th street in Winnemucca near the intersection of Reinhardt street. This resulted from continuous heavy rain. Road remains closed as of 13:00 LT 9/4/23.
September 2013	Flash Flood	Winnemucca	-	Newspaper relayed numerous reports of street flooding and debris on multiple streets in and around Winnemucca.
June 2004	Tornado (F0)	Winnemucca	-	Trained weather spotter observed tornado on the west side of the Sonoma range.
June 2004	Tornado (F0)	Winnemucca	-	Trained weather spotter observed a tornado.
August 1996	Flash Flood	Winnemucca	-	no account filed
August 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Winnemucca	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Humboldt County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Winnemucca Grammar School	0.2 miles	1991
US Post Office-Winnemucca Main	0.2 miles	1990
W. C. Record House	0.4 miles	1980
Humboldt County Courthouse	0.4 miles	1983
Winnemucca Hotel	0.4 miles	2005
Humboldt River Bridge	0.6 miles	1995

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 03001067 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Humboldt County	All 13 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.