Eureka Sentinel Building

The Sentinel ran off its presses here from 1879 to 1960 — eighty-one years of a mining town's record kept in one sandstone building that cost ten thousand dollars to raise. Three generations of Skillmans edited it, and Edward Moyle gave it more than fifty years before taking the editor's chair in 1944. The paper outlived the boom by decades; the building outlived the paper. It stands now as the Eureka Sentinel Museum, the old print shop intact behind the same walls.

What the plaque says

Constructed in 1879 at a cost of $10,000, the Sentinel Building was designed by architect C.M. Bennett. The Eureka Sentinel was published in this building from 1879 to 1960. Three generations of the Skillman family, Archibald, Edward and Willis, edited the newspaper. The last editor, Edward J. Moyle, had been with the Sentinel for over fifty years before he took over the editorial chair in 1944. State Historic Marker No. 170 Division of Historic Preservation and Archeology Eureka Historical Society

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 Courthouse — steps away
• Tannehill Cabin — 0.7 mi
• Eureka — 0.9 mi
• The Eureka Mining District Producing Ore Since 1864 — 3.5 mi