Eureka Courthouse

Built in 1879 and 1880 from brick fired in town and sandstone cut from the hills nearby, the courthouse went up at the height of the boom and, unlike almost everything around it, never came down. Boom-town Victorian in its proportions and the setting for the district's most-watched trials, it still does the county's business — a working building rather than a relic, which in a place this emptied-out is its own kind of monument.

What the plaque says

Built in 1879-80, of locally-fired brick and of sandstone quarried nearby, the Eureka County Courthouse remains a fine example of boom town Victorian opulence. This relic, scene of many famous trials, lives on in reflected glory of the days when Eureka was the first important lead-silver district in the United States.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Eureka — steps away
  The Pittsburgh of the West, reborn — the best-preserved town on the loneliest road, with an 1880 opera house and a working 1879 courthouse

More markers nearby

• Eureka Sentinel Building — steps away
• Tannehill Cabin — 0.6 mi
• Eureka — 0.9 mi
• The Eureka Mining District Producing Ore Since 1864 — 3.5 mi