Boulder City, Historic District In Hoover Dam

It’s worth including Boulder City on a Hoover Dam trip to appreciate the scale of work involved – the city was built as a model community to house dam construction workers. The grandest buildings are the Bureau of Reclamation and the Bureau of Power and Light; the Municipal Building; and the Boulder Dam Hotel. Most of the construction, however, was focused on the two- and three room houses for the workers.

Boulder City/ Hoover Dam Museum, built in 1933, the Dutch Colonial style Boulder Dam Hotel now houses the Boulder City/Hoover Dam Museum. Actor Boris Karloff and other Hollywood stars stayed in the hotel’s glory days, and Crown Prince Olav and Princess Martha of Norway hosted a party here in 1939. The out-of-town hotel declined in the postwar rise of Las Vegas as a tourist Mecca, but, since the mid-90s, a group of volunteers has set about rehabilitating it. The museum itself includes memorabilia from the 1930s.

Walk back into 1930s America. The arcaded, southwestern-style buildings were the precursors of today’s shopping plazas. Boulder Dam Hotel, by contrast, is in southern colonial style. Up to 8,000 dam workers were housed in construction workers’ houses and although many of the buildings have disappeared, cottages 1–12 look much as they did when they were built. If you want to travel to this place, you can use the service of tour and travel agents there. In that case, the tour agents will bring you to all the places in this region. But, you have to pay some money to the agents as the payment. Let’s go to there, and enjoy the scenery.

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