Bliss Mansion

Duane Bliss built this on the fortune he made cutting Lake Tahoe's forests for the Comstock. As head of the Carson and Tahoe Lumber and Fluming Company—the same combine that ran Glenbrook and the Spooner flume—Bliss raised the grandest house in Nevada here in 1879, a three-story home of clear sugar pine and cedar from his own mills. It was the first house in the state fully piped for gas light. The mansion stands across from the Governor's Mansion and later served as a bed-and-breakfast; it still hosts art and music events in summer.

What the plaque says

Built by Duane L. Bliss Lumber and railroad Magnate 1879 In it's time the most modern and largest home in Nevada. Entirely constructed of clear lumber and square nails. First home in Nevada entirely piped for gas lighting.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Carson City — 0.4 mi
  The capital one man platted before there was a territory—where the Comstock's silver became coin at a U.S. Mint and a small sandstone city that has run Nevada ever since
• Stewart Indian School — 3.5 mi
  The federal boarding school that took Great Basin children from 1890 to 1980 to erase their cultures—its student-built stone campus now a tribally-guided museum telling the story in alumni voices
• The Flume Trail & Marlette Lake — 6.9 mi
  The other thing the Comstock took off Lake Tahoe—not its trees but its water, hauled over a mountain range through the highest-pressure pipeline on earth, on a flume grade that is now one of the country's great mountain-bike rides
• Sand Harbor — 8.7 mi
  The crown of Lake Tahoe's Nevada shore—car-sized granite boulders standing in water so clear the boats above them seem to float on air, on a beach the Washoe kept for thousands of summers

More markers nearby

• The Governor’s Mansion — steps away
• Orion Clemens Home — steps away
• Methodist Church of Carson City — 0.2 mi
• Stewart – Nye Residence — 0.2 mi