The 2022 Carson City Historical Building Ornament features the Clemens House, home of Mark Twain.
The ornament is available at the following:
• The Purple Avocado, 904 N. Curry St.
• Carson City Chamber of Commerce, 1900 S. Carson St.
• Nevada Legislature Gift Shop, Room 1189 of the Legislative Building, 401 S. Carson St.
• The Nevada State Museum, 600 N. Carson St. The museum is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday.
The Orion Clemens House, 502 N. Division St., was built in 1862.
The house is best known as the residence, for a few years, of Orion Clemens, the first Territorial Secretary of Nevada, as well as the brother of Mark Twain. Twain, who was still going by his given name Samuel Clemens at the time, spent a lot of time in this house with his brother before they both left Nevada in the mid 1860s.