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Savage Mansion (c.1863)

Storey County
  39.30537, -119.65106

"... I'm sure the famous 100-mile view probably astounded Mr. Grant! ... Considering he was used to more of the familiar flatter, greener, damper, and murkier landscapes of the East." -- Journal Entry, July 2007

Along D Street, one block south of the Virginia City Elementary School - Virginia City
* Find this one two blocks south of the Mackay Mansion *

Original Date Visited: 7/7/07

Signed: No

  • Marker 87 plaque
  • The opulence of the many historic mansions on the Comstock
  • The opulence of the many historic mansions on the Comstock

Exact Description:
This elegant mansion, designed in a French Second Empire style, served as a residence for the superintendent, as well as a mine office for the Savage Mining Company. The first floor served as the mine office while the upper two stories provided a residence for many successful superindendents.

Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States and "General of the Armies," spoke to the townspeople from the second floor balcony on October 27, 1879, after a town parade in his honor.

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