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Show Form No. 10-3pO. 'Rev. 10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT Or THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE FOR NPS USE ONLY RECEIVED N.A TIONAL REGISTER OF mSTORIC PLACES INVENTOR Y -- NOMINATION FORM CONTI NUATION SHEET ITEM NUMBER DATE ENTERED 7 PAGE 5 usually wood~ sometimes stone, that comprised the mine's surface plant. Concrete fOl.mdations are all that remain of various mills and smelters. The physical relationships of buildings to each other are e:ndemic of mining districts and areas. Eureka •s town layout follo\oIs the geographical character:' 3tics of the area--prilllarily the hilly topography. All commercial enterprises, and various institutional structures, are all located on one long main street, nmning through the center of town. l\'ood~ brick, and stone buildings run along the street \d th varying cornice heights. About half the original structures have been removed, but the south side of ~fain Street remains much the same. Geographically, headframes and mine surface plants exist in Eureka City; thus, a closeness in physical relationship between the various building types. In other areas of thernultiple resource district headframes are scattered, but the remnants . of are dumps and railroad grades in the vicinity creates a vision of conpatibility and continuity of the mining theme. . . . .A hreakd0101Il of the approximate percentages of building types is as' £01101-1s: Residential 84% Commercial 5% Institutional 4% Industrial 7% The heaviest concen-tration of these structures is found in the proposed Eureka Hi$toric District. Some kn01m archeological sites do exist in the area (and are noted) but an in-depth archeological suxvey of the district has not been completed. |
