The Krebs Peterson house is the Carson City Historical Building Ornament collectable for 2024 is now available in time for the holidays. The ornament is a collector item and is filled with a tremendous amount of detail with its 3-dimensional appearance.

The ornament is available at the following locations:
— The Purple Avocado, 904 N Curry St, Carson City. Past year’s ornaments are also available at Purple Avocado.
— Nevada Legislature Gift Shop, Room 1189 of the Legislative Building, 401 S Carson St, Carson City (call (775) 684-6835 for times).
— The Nevada State Museum, 600 N Carson St, Carson City. The museum is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday.
— Carson City Chamber of Commerce, 1900 S Carson St, Carson City.

The land for the Krebs-Peterson House was purchased in 1910 and the home was built by 1914. Dr. Ernest Theodore Krebs, a Physician and surgeon and his wife Ida May (Green) Krebs lived there for five years. All four of their children were born in this home. Dr. Krebs had observed that during the 1918 influenza, the Washoe Indians of the Carson City area were not dying of the flu, noting they drank as tea, an herbal medicine called Toh-sa. He was convinced this was a miracle cure and began marketing the product nationally. 


The house was sold in 1919 to Edward Charles Peterson and his wife Julia Gale (Schulz) Peterson, the granddaughter of George Washington Gale Ferris, of the famous World’s Fair Ferris Wheel. Edward Peterson was influential in Carson City as a leader and top officer in the Masonic Lodge of Nevada, as well as a member of the Order of the Eastern Star, Scottish Rite Bodies of Nevada and the Kerak Shrine Temple. He also worked as a state controller from 1927-1935.


John Waynes last film, “The Shootist” was filmed in the Krebs-Peterson house in 1976. The front of the Victorian two-story home was in many scenes as Lauren Bacall interacted with John Wayne. Wayne discovers he has uncurable cancer and plans his own death at the hands of three men who have reason to kill him. John Wayne had a special affection for his all his costars, especially Dollor, a chestnut horse, whom he starred with in six other movies. “The Shootist was named one of the Ten Best Films of 1976.


The Krebs-Peterson house was in the Peterson family until 1991, when Edward and Julia’s only child Edme M (Peterson) Carrington and her husband Paul W. Carrington sold the home.