Bureau of Mines Boulder City Experimental Station, Oil & Paint Storage Building, Date Street north of U.S. Highway 93, Boulder City

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Date Street Complex, bordered by U.S. Highway 93 Truck Route, and Elm and Date streets Boulder City, Clark County, Nevada Building 900 is located in the southwest corner of the complex near U.S. Highway 93. Building 700 is to the northeast. Boulder City, Nev., Topographic Quadrangle, U.S.G.S., Photorevised Universal Transverse Mercator Coordinates: (approximate center of building)

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Building as part of the Date Street Complex, was part of the Bureau of Mines Electrometallurgical Research Facility located in Boulder City. As such, it is within the designated Boulder City Historic District. However, it was constructed after the period of significance, established for the Boulder City Historic District, and its function as a storage facility is not considered a contributing factor to the overall significance of the Research Facility (Pfaff Therefore, the building is not considered a contributing element to the District. The significance of the Boulder City Historic District is tied to the Boulder Canyon Project (Hoover Dam) and to the history of American City Planning.

This was the first community constructed following the federal New Towns model, as well as the "first fully-developed experience in new town planning as promoted by the Community Planning Movement, a movement which is recognized as the force which most influenced contemporary community planning practices" (yv oodward et al. Description: Building used for oil and paint storage, is a one-story brick building constructed on a linear rectangle plan. It is oriented on a northwest/southeast axis, but the descriptions of the elevations will be addressed as north, south, east, and west. The building measures 21 (east/west) by 17 (north/south) feet. It was built in according to a date and initials scratched into the poured concrete at the north entrance.

It appears in a aerial photograph but not in an earlier aerial photograph, dated c. The front-gabled roof has a low pitch (26 ) and is clad with corrugated sheet metal. It has open eaves with enclosed metal rafters and an approximate 10-inch overhang on all elevations. There are two cylindrical ventilators placed symmetrically on the ridge. The brick walls are BUREAU OF MINES BOULDER CITY EXPERIMENTAL STATION, OIL AND PAINT STORAGE BUILDING (Building No. HABS No. NV-35-1(Page2) constructed on a variant American Bond with 8 rows of stretchers topped by a row of headers. At the roof-wall jointure is a concrete frieze band two bricks thick that encircles the entire building. The foundation is a concrete slab. The primary (front) elevation faces north.

A wood-framed plain wood (particle board) door is offset east of center. Above this is an incandescent light. To the west of the door is a metal vent pipe that stops below the roof overhang. A concrete pad fronts the entry area, with a second, smaller, section off the northeast corner of the building. The west elevation has a single wood-framed window opening offset to the south end that has been boarded. It retains a sill and lintel constructed of brick headers. A second bricked-in window was originally symmetrically placed at the west end. The south elevation has a single wood-framed plywood door, offset to the east end. On the east elevation are two symmetrically placed window openings, both with brick sills and lintels. The south window is a recessed, wood-framed, split casement.

The north opening has been partially in-filled with wood, surrounding an offcenter opening with a swamp cooler unit. On the north end of the elevation is an electrical box with two conduits going downward into the ground. Concrete pads are present on the west and south elevations. The one on the south appears to be a partial walkway from the door to the east of the building. The building interior has a wood partition dividing it into two rooms. In the south room the wall stops at the concrete frieze band and is open to the roof, metal framing visible. There is wood shelving on the south, east, and north walls, with a wall cabinet in the southeast comer. The south window on the west elevation was boarded over, but remains intact on the interior.

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