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In Nevada City and Virginia City, shop, dine and sleep without leaving the atmosphere of the 1890s. You will find fascinating nuggets of history and memories to treasure. The restoration of these towns began decades ago, and the state of Montana recently purchased much of Virginia City and all of Nevada City so that the preservation can continue. Nevada City's Music Hall was built as the ""Recreation Hall"" at Canyon Lodge in Yellowstone National Park, about 1910. It was disassembled in 1959 and moved to this site. The Music Hall now contains perhaps the world's largest collection of band organs and music machines on public display, including possibly the biggest band organ in the world. This building houses the biggest collection of music machines in Montana. The 90-key, intricately carved Gaviolli military band organ is one of the ""Headliners"" in Nevada City Music Hall's collection of nickelodeons (the very first jukeboxes). Built in Paris, France, about 1895, the instrument is 27 feet wide, 12 feet high and four feet deep. In the Music Hall, you'll also find the largest rifle in Montana and mutoscopes, which were the first form of movies before they were show in theaters. When a coin was put in the slot, customers looked inside and turned a crank to watch a little movie flip by. The enormous, elegant chandeliers that once hung here have returned to the restored Capitol building rotunda in Helena. The chandeliers placed back to the Capitol rotunda once the building's extensive renovation project is complete. The Nevada City School perhaps the oldest standing public school building in Montana. The school was built in 1867 in Twin Bridges and used until 1873. In 1873 the Masons built a school with their lodge hall upstairs similar to the one in Bannack.
Cities near Nevada City Montana
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