Firehouse Building
The brick firehouse building was constructed to replace an earlier wooden building in the early 1900s and was operated by the Gardnerville volunteer fire department. The department also served as the town government at that time.
In 1910, editor Bert Selkirk wrote in the record courier newspaper that "with a trained fire department, each member knowing what to do at the right time and working under the command of a cool headed chief, the danger of unnecessary destruction of property would be reduced to a minimum." Genoa had been devastated by a major fire only one month before. On March 11, 1911 the Gardnerville fire department was born with Earl Christensen serving as "The cool headed chief."
Lacking a municipal water system of adequate means, cisterns were built in strategic locations throughout the town to provide firefighters with ample water supply. One of those massive cisterns was located in the parking lot at the rear of the building, that cistern was abandoned and filled with soil in 2001.
The fire house building was purchased by David Park in 2014 and remodeled into the "Pub" side of the Overland Restaurant and Pub.