William Spence House

Nevada, United States

Exterior only

Visible from the street; the inside is private.

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Heritage registerNational Register of Historic Places↗

Standing at 308 S. Thompson Street in Carson City, Nevada, the William Spence House is a two-and-a-half-story brick dwelling completed in 1875 by William Mortimer Spence, a London-born cabinetmaker and pianowright who emigrated to the United States in 1860. Designed in Greek Revival style, the house occupies an 85-by-102-foot property and represents the transitional architectural designs that characterized Carson City's residential development in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Spence resided in the house until his death in 1920 at age ninety-eight. The building was recognized as historically significant and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.