Editing Lovelock, Nevada (section)

==Economy==
===Tourism===
[[File:Pershingcourt.JPG|thumb|right|Pershing County Court House in Lovelock]]

Among the tourist events figure the I.D.E.S. Portuguese festival in May and what became the annual Frontier Days weekend in July. There are also hot air balloon races (Lovers Aloft, inaugurated in February 2004) and the Lovelock Street Fever car show, begun in June 2007. A major draw is the Lovers Lock Plaza in the shaded area at the back of the Court House where couples symbolise their love by [[Love locks|attaching a padlock to an 'endless chain']], a practice begun on Valentine's Day, 2005.<ref name=CoC>{{cite web |url=http://loverslock.com/ |title=The perfect romantic gift idea. "Locking your love" in Lovelock, Nevada. |publisher=Lovelock/Pershing County Chamber of Commerce |access-date=2010-05-17}}</ref> The following year saw the construction of a dirt-racing track known as the Lovelock Speedway.{{citation needed|date=October 2024}}

Lovelock's heritage buildings include the wooden built Grace Methodist Church on the corner of Cornell Avenue and 8th Street, dating from 1886. It was destroyed by fire in 1922 and the tower was rebuilt without the original spire; in 1983 the church was badly damaged by another fire and was restored again. [[Marzen House]] Museum is another Victorian building, built in 1874. The Italianate farmhouse was transported from Big Meadow Ranch in the 1980s and has on its site an assay office, farm machinery sheds, and buildings housing vintage automobiles, while inside it contains 1800s furnishings and a museum, shedding light on the area's history.<ref>[http://museums.travelnevada.com/destination/marzen-house-museum.aspx Online information]</ref>

The Longhorn Bar beside the tracks on West Broadway is one of the few remaining commercial buildings in typical Nevada style. Not far away is the [[Central Pacific Railroad Depot (Lovelock, Nevada)|railroad depot]] dating from 1880. In 1999 it was presented to the town by the [[Union Pacific Railroad]] to be restored and moved to another lot for use as an eatery. This was registered as a historic building in 2004.<ref>{{NRHP url|id=04000300|title=Registration online}}</ref>

The [[Pershing County Courthouse]] was built in 1919. Pershing County officials approached [[Frederic Joseph DeLongchamps]], by then the architect of six Nevada courthouses, and asked for a design that would be low in price but distinctive in appearance. As a solution, DeLongchamps designed a round courthouse, patterning it after [[Thomas Jefferson Library|Thomas Jefferson's library]] at the [[University of Virginia]] campus. The circle-over-hexagon design includes a circular interior hallway and a round courtroom decorated with [[Corinthian order|Corinthian]] [[pilasters]]. A broad, sweeping concrete staircase leads to the main floor of the [[Beaux-Arts architecture|Beaux-Arts classical structure]]. Its entrance includes a pedimented portico supported by six [[Ionic order|Ionic]] columns. [[Doric order|Doric]] pilasters separate the main story windows. Cream-colored brick and [[terracotta]] finish the exterior. A shallow dome crowns the roof and provides the courtroom with a dramatic, soaring ceiling.'<ref>Julie Nicoletta, ''Buildings of Nevada'', Oxford University Press USA, 2000, {{ISBN|0-19-514139-3}}</ref>