You have to go back some 146 years—back to the days of Nevada Territory—to hear the kind of bragging about the St. Charles hotel that is common today. It was such a grand building for Carson City, and its developers made sure everyone knew it: “We have the largest and best hotel building in the Territory,” they boasted in an ad that ran on October 2, 1862—two years befo


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