The Mizpah Hotel was built in 1907, shortly after the town of Tonopah was founded. Once the tallest building in the state, the hotel quickly became the heart of town providing lodging, libations and entertainment to fuel the great Nevada silver rush.

After more than one hundred years of ups and downs, transfers of ownership and natural calamities, Fred and Nancy Cline purchased the Mizpah in early 2011, and are planning to open to the public in August of 2011.

Like most of their endeavors, the Mizpah Hotel has special meaning for the Clines. Nancy’s great uncle was pioneer Harry Ramsey, a miner by trade. He came to Tonopah in 1900 to seek a future in silver and was later joined in 1904 by his sister Emma, Nancy’s grandmother. Emma eventually moved to the San Francisco Bay Area where she met and married Nancy’s grandfather, George Bunting, a sea captain for Standard Oil.

Today, the Clines are thankful to be a part of the revitalization of Tonopah—Nancy’s ancestral hometown and the rebirth of the Mizpah.

Tonopah's Central Nevada Museum contains displays describing not only local mining history but also other cultural and social aspects of the region.

Self-guided tour of the site of the silver strike that started one of Nevada's biggest mining booms in the 1900's. The 110-acre park encompasses portions of four of Tonopah's major mines and includes original buildings, large and small artifacts and an underground mine tour