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by: Nevada Yesterdays is written by UNLV history professor, Michael Green, and is supported by Nevada Humanities The first time I served in the legislature in 1969, I got to be in the old state capitol building. The new one opened in 1971. So the new one is turning fifty. But the old one is turning one hundred and fifty, and that’s the story we want to tell you today. When Carson City became the territorial capital in 1861, it was mainly because of local merchant Abe Curry. He gave the legislature space to meet in his hotel. He also gave the state ten acres or four city blocks in the middle of town where an actual government building would go. But it didn’t happen right after Nevada became a state in 1864. The 1869 state legislature finally passed a bill to provide one hundred thousand dollars to construct a state capitol. A board chose the lowest bid, but the costs ran to about one hundred and seventy thousand. And that was even with the sandstone for the constr ....