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Thursday Doors- Eureka!

September 4, 2025Posted in Photography, Thursday Doors, Travel and TourismTagged Doors, Eureka, Historic Sites, Mining town, Nevada, Rural Decay, Thursday Doors38 Comments

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Several weeks ago a girlfriend of mine sent me a photo of a building in Eureka, NV via a text message. She said, “Here’s a door picture for you! ❤️ Eureka, NV.

I asked her if I could share it with you all and she said, “Yes. I knew you’d like those.”

It has 4 doors!

She said she did the walking tour and this building is number 35 on the tour. She sent the passage about the history of this site/building too.

I hadn’t heard of Eureka, NV prior to her sending me these images so, I looked it up. Travel Nevada says, ” Eureka, Nevada bills itself as the Friendliest Town on the Loneliest Road in America. This charming little town is one of the American West’s best-preserved mining communities, thanks to dozens of beautifully intact historic buildings to admire and plenty of hands-on history to explore, along with modern comforts, tasty food, and drink, and endless outdoor adventure a stone’s throw away.”

“In 1864 several prospectors made their way east from booming Austin in search of less crowded diggin’s, which they found—at least for a brief moment. Eventually, their “eureka” moment arrived in the form of a silver strike that would become the state’s largest, second only to the unrivaled Comstock Lode in Virginia City.

Unlike thousands of Western boomtowns that quickly went bust, Eureka continued to prosper, thanks to its proximity to troves of silver, lead, zinc, and (still today) gold. At its height, Eureka could churn out 700 tons of ore in a single day, a feat that secured status as the seat of the richest county in the Silver State.”

https://travelnevada.com/cities/eureka/

There’s more information and some photos at the link. I think it would be a neat place to explore.

Thank you so much, Jarlath for the images and introduction to Eureka, NV and its doors!

Friends who send door pics are the best aren’t they.

This post is part of the weekly challenge Thursday Doors hosted by Dan Antion over at https://nofacilities.com/2025/09/04/osv-cow-parade/

Head on over there to see more doors from around the world or join the craze and add a door or two of your own. 😊

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Thursday Doors-Vintages

July 24, 2025Posted in Photography, Thursday Doors, Travel and Tourism, Travel PhotographyTagged Cruising, Doors, iPhone 14 Pro, Quantum of the Seas, Thursday Doors, Travel and Tourism, wine31 Comments

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He-Man and I were recently on an Alaskan Cruise which was a lot of fun and full of beautiful scenery, but you know I had an eye out for the unique or unusual door too. I think this one fits the bill. Vintage’s Bar on the Quantum of the Seas ship.

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This post is part of the weekly challenge Thursday Doors hosted by Dan Antion over at https://nofacilities.com/2025/07/24/shop-doors-part-2/

Head on over there to see more doors from around the world or join the craze and add a door or two of your own. 😊

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Thursday Doors- Jensen Mansion

April 17, 2025April 17, 2025Posted in Architecture, National Register of Historic Places, Photography, Thursday DoorsTagged chimneys, Doors, Fence, Historic Places; Cololnial Revival Style Houses, Houses, mansions, patio, pineapple decor, Thursday Doors, white picket fence, widow's walk43 Comments

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This week I’m sharing a house with a pretty door that I’ve wanted to photograph for ages. While shopping in downtown Gardnerville, NV a few weeks back I finally turned down Ezell Street to make a few photos of the Jensen Mansion.

This mansion was built by Arendt Jensen back in 1910. In the year 1887 when he was just 28 he arrived in Gardnerville, NV. There were just two houses in town.

There’s a plaque on the tree out front telling us a little about him and the house.

The Plaque says,” Arendt Jensen had this beautiful mansion constructed for his family in 1910. Mr. Jensen owned a general merchandise store in Gardnerville that became very prosperous. He later established the first bank in Carson Valley. The Douglas County Farmer’s Bank.

An advertisement in the Record Courier newspaper in 1906 stated at the “A. Jensen store you can buy anything at prices that are right.”

Meticulously restored, the Jensen Mansion has been a bed and breakfast in the recent past. The home and grounds also appeared in the movie “The Wizard” staring Fred Savage, and Beau Bridges. The home was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.”

I found this website while doing a bit more research about the man and house. https://www.clairitage.com/2017/12/29/gardnerville-jensen-mansion/

There’s some interesting information on the Clairitage site. There’s a photo of the brick Mercantile building that Jensen built there, and the 3 arched building is still in town. The 3 arched building is a huge antique store that I love to poke around in. My last stop in I scored a lovely duck decoy that now lives in my bedroom. 😊 Okay let’s get back on topic. The door!

Here’s a somewhat closer look at the front door.

I like the privacy lace curtains over the door, and the pineapples at the gate.

The side patio and large front patio, and the widow’s walk are all nice too.

I think it’s a private residence again so I wasn’t able to walk around the grounds or get a peek inside. Maybe one day.

This post is part of the weekly challenge Thursday Doors hosted by Dan Antion over at:

https://nofacilities.com/2025/04/17/mt-washington-pittsburgh-doors/

Hop on over there to see more doors from around the world or join the craze and add a door or two of your own. 😊

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Thursday Doors- From Santa Barbara, CA

April 10, 2025April 9, 2025Posted in Thursday DoorsTagged Architecture, Doors, Houses, Lamps, Portals, Santa Barbara CA, Thursday Doors, vines47 Comments

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He-Man and I went back to Santa Barbara, CA for a long week-end to celebrate our wedding anniversary at the end of March. While out and about I photographed a couple of doors, and a gate.

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Reagan Ranch Center

This post is part of the weekly challenge Thursday Doors hosted by Dan Antion over at https://nofacilities.com/

Head on over there to see more doors from around the world or join the craze and add a door or two of your own. 😊

I’m out photographing wildflowers and I hope waterfalls today so I’ll be late responding to your comments and visiting your posts, but I’ll get there.

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Thursday Doors-Favorites of 2024

December 19, 2024December 18, 2024Posted in Photography, Thursday DoorsTagged Architecture, Bar, Church, Door Pulls, Doors, Photography, Restaurats, Travel and Tourism54 Comments

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This week we’re sharing our favorite doors from the past year.

I’ll start with Coventry Cross Church.

The Round House from Put-in-Bay, Ohio

From Florida Quaker Steak and Lube has to be here. I loved the door pulls the most.

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Speaking of door pulls I have to include the door my friend in CT sent me from her visit to Gillette Castle with its unique door pull and beautiful door.

Oh, the beautiful turquoise door/gate must be included in my favorites for the year.

I have more favorites than I thought I did for this year.

The little bird bungalows

Last but not least, my favorite door of all. From our house to yours, I wish you a very Merry Christmas!

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Home ❤️

This post is part of the weekly challenge Thursday Doors hosted by Dan Antion over at https://nofacilities.com/2024/12/19/2024-favorite-doors/

Head on over there to see more doors from around the world or join the craze and add a door or two of your own. 😊.

Thursday Doors will be back in January 2025, see you then!

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Thursday Doors-Christmas Doors

December 12, 2024Posted in Christmas, Holidays and Fetes, Photography, Thursday DoorsTagged Christmas, Christmas Decorations, Christmas Doors, Christmas lights, Doors, Photography, Thursday Doors, Wreaths39 Comments

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This week we’re sharing favorite Christmas Doors. I went up to Carson City to photograph and see the Governor’s Mansion display of lights.

Here’s a closer look at the doors, well as close as I could get.

After viewing some of the lights downtown I stopped in Scoup’s a local Ice Cream and Soup cafe for a bowl of soup and saw this door hanging on the wall.

Next week we’re sharing favorite 2024 doors then we’ll have a break until next year.

This post is part of the Thursday Doors challenge hosted by Dan Antion. If you’d like to see more Christmas doors from around the world head on over to his blog here-https://nofacilities.com/2024/12/12/osv-gingerbread-doors/

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Thurs. Doors- Put-in-Bay

May 30, 2024May 30, 2024Posted in Photography, Thursday Doors, Travel and TourismTagged Doors, Ferry, Miller Boat Line, Monuments, Ohio, Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial, Put-in-Bay, South Bass Island, United States of America44 Comments

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While in Ohio earlier this month we also wanted to see more of the area we based ourselves in so, one afternoon after a morning of birding then lunch we drove back to our hotel grabbed some stuff then headed to catch the ferry to Put-in-Bay, an island on the shallow western end of Lake Erie.

We decided to be walk-on Ferry passengers. Here’s where we we’ll wait for the ferry to come in. See the ferry making its way to the dock on the right back there? There’s a blue door!

*Miller Boat Line Ferry pedestrian waiting area*

Does that big ole portal the cars, trucks, and passengers enter and exit the ferry count as a door?

It was smooth sailing over to the island. We’re almost there! I see lots of doors as we approach the island.

The view of the dockyard from the upper deck of the ferry. There are several open doors.

Welcome to the island!

Some fun facts about Put-in-Bay:

The island dates back to the War of 1812 when Put-in-Bay became an important operations headquarters for Oliver Hazard Perry. The island was the launching point from which Perry set sail to defeat the British fleet commanded by Robert H. Barclay in the war of 1812. The historic battle of Lake Erie and the American victory gave the United States Navy and our country the often quoted slogan, ” We have met the enemy, and they are ours.” For more information about the island and its history visit this website. ~https://www.visitputinbay.org/history/

Today there’s a 352 foot granite column on the battleground site. The Perry’s Victory and International Peace Memorial. There’s a lookout at the top, which we were told has exceptional views on clear days like it was that day, but it was closed the day we were there. Two pics because I can’t decide which to share. I hope you like them both.

In fact most things on the island were closed. Their season starts Memorial week-end so, we were 12 days early . The preferred method of transportation while on the island is by golf cart or foot. We took the bus into town and had a great bus driver who shared lots of great information about the island with us. Then he hooked us up with the trolley driver who was giving out free tours of the island that day. He was nailing down his talk-points of interest about the island and practicing on us. He was great! I took a few snaps of the bus and the trolley but I can’t find them. Sigh.

This is getting rather long so, I’ll wrap it up. I have more doors and history from the island to share with you next week.

This post is part of the Thursday Door weekly challenge. To see more doors from around the world visit our host’s Dan Antion of No Facilities site https://nofacilities.com/2024/05/30/on-board-the-delta-pearl/

Nikon D850 and iPhone 14 Pro

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