Rheua Pearce Houses
1208-16 South Pacific Street; Built ca. 1846

The former residence of Rheua Pearce (1894-1993), an educator and founder of the Las Vegas historic preservation movement, is a handsome row of adobe rooms that is actually two houses, both lovingly preserved by Rheua. Territorial window frames, peaked like a classical pediment, punctuate the massive exterior walls (about 2 1/2 feet thick). The pitched roof was probably added around 1900.

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