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Overview of Virginia City.
| Heritage buildings of Virginia City as they stood when gold rush ended & capital moved to Helena.
| Madison County Courthouse (1876).
Style: Italianate. Architect: Loren B. Olds.
| Entrance of Madison County Courthouse.
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Model T Ford & Wallace Streetscape.
| Antique fire engine tour vehicle.
| Cowboy riding through town.
| Young lady riding sidesaddle in long gown.
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Hangman's Building (1864) where vigilantes hanged road agents from rafter while building under construction. It later served druggists then as post office.
| Elling Bank (1864).
| Wallace streetscape with Metropolitan Meat Market, Cousins Candy Shop, Rank's Drugstore & Masonic Temple.
| Masonic Temple (1865) in stone building built by Paris Pfouts (vigilante president) & Samuel Russel.
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Details of Masonic Temple with adobe mortar since lime was not available in this gold rush town.
| Rank's Drugstore (1865) in stone building built by Paris Pfouts & Samuel Russel.
| Cousins Candy Shop (series of former stores) in 1888 brick building.
| Array of candy in Cousins Candy Shop.
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Bear bench at Cousins Candy Shop.
| Saltwater taffy pulling at Cousins Candy Shop.
| Metropolitan Meat Market & Cousins Candy Shop.
| Metropolitan Meat Market (1888) with cast iron storefront.
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Cast iron storefront details of Metropolitan Meat Market.
| Cast iron leaf details of Metropolitan Meat Market.
| Makers nameplate of Geo. L. Mesker & Co. Architectural Iron Works, Evansville, Ind. on Metropolitan Meat Market building.
| Gold Shop frame building in style of the frontier.
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Historical Museum in frontier board & batten building.
| Montana Post & Historical Museum on Wallace Street.
| Montana Post (1863, reconstructed 1946) built by D.W. Tilton.
| Anaconda Hotel (now Fairweather Inn) (1863).
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Grocer William Kiskadden's Stone Block (Vigilante Barn) (1863) where the Vigilantes were said to meet. Later it became a blacksmith's shop.
| Blacksmith & Wagon Shop in former Kiskadden's Stone Block.
| Buggies in Blacksmith & Wagon Shop.
| City Bakery Building.
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Frontier store on Wallace Street.
| False-fronted wooden shop on Wallace Street.
| Typical goods sold in frontier shop of gold rush town of Virginia City.
| G. Goldberg dry goods & notions store (1863).
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Interior of G. Goldberg (later McGovern) dry goods & notions store exactly as it was in 1945 when the McGovern Sisters locked the door & quit business.
| Kramer Building (dress shop) (1863).
| Wooden buildings in Virginia City landscape.
| Former Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone office in wooden shack.
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Dance & Stuart Store (1863, replica 1950 of original logs).
| Dance & Stuart Store.
| The Chas. Parker Co., Meriden, Conn., coffee grinder in Dance & Stuart Store.
| Interior of Dance & Stuart Mercantile Store.
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Julius Kohls House (1878).
| Log cabin with sod roof.
| Alder Gulch Short Line Depot of Northern Pacific Railroad (c1895) (moved to Virginia City from Harrison, MT).
| Alder Gulch Short Line Depot detail.
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Alder Gulch narrow gauge railroad to Nevada City.
| Alder Gulch narrow gauge railroad locomotive.
| Alder Gulch narrow gauge railroad tourist car.
| Green Front Boarding House (1860s) originally a brothel (female boarding houses) then part of Chinatown.
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Smith & Boyd Livery Stable (c1900) converted to a theater in 1949.
| Classic car passes Theater in Smith & Boyd Livery Stable.
| J.F. Stoer Saloon (Bale of Hay Saloon) (1863).
| Tourist stagecoach passes before Sauerbier Blacksmith Shop (1863).
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Interior of Sauerbier Blacksmith Shop.
| S.L. Simpson Building (Barber Shop) (1863).
| Montana Picture Gallery (established 1864).
| Coffee House next to Buford Block.
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Buford Block (1899) was largest mercantile store in Montana when built.
| Interior of S.R. Buford Store with original inventory from when store closed.
| Groceries in interior of S.R. Buford Store.
| Wells Fargo Express Office with wooden drain pipe crossing sidewalk.
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Interior of Wells Fargo Express Office.
| E.L. Smith Store (1863) with Montana's first show windows.
| Actual inventory within E.L. Smith Store.
| Actual inventory within E.L. Smith Store.
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Painting of Turkish Potentate on store front on Wallace Street.
| Contents Store (1864) where second floor held Territorial Government Office (1865-75).
| Creighton Stone Block (1860s).
| C.L. Dahler House (1866, converted to Gothic c1875).
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Bargeboard of C.L. Dahler House.
| McKay / McNulty House (1884).
| Territorial Governor's Mansion (1864) occupied by Governor Benjamin F. Potts (1870-3) for first three years of his 12-year term.
| Gohn House (1892) & Lewis/Gohn House (1864) on Wallace Street.
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Virginia City Thompson-Hickman Museum (1918). Architect: Frank A. Colby.
| Etching of view of Virginia City (1875) at town Museum.
| Virginia City Museum displays.
| Chinese artifacts of town's Chinese community at Virginia City Museum.
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Carved chair (c1893) which was displayed at Columbia Exposition in Chicago now at Virginia City Museum.
| Madison Co., Montana scroll on carved chair at Virginia City Museum.
| Gun collection at Virginia City Museum.
| Photos of Vigilantes who tried & hanged people they deemed undesirable at Virginia City Museum.
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Wooden tombstones of some men hanged by Virginia City Vigilantes at Virginia City Museum.
| Boot hill cemetery where Vigilantes victims were buried.
| Abandoned gas station on Wallace Street.
| George Thaxton House (1884). Style: Gothic Revival.
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Gothic details of George Thaxton House.
| St. Paul's Episcopal Church (1902-4).
Style: Gothic Revival. Architect: Fennel & Grove.
| Nevada City Rail Depot (1964 replica of Great Northern plans).
| Log & wooden buildings of open air museum.
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Criterion Dance Hall at Nevada City open air museum.
| Log store at Nevada City open air museum.
| Nevada City Hotel.
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