Common name: Private Residence
Historic name: Dat-So-La-Lee House
General Location: Southeast corner of Division and Proctor Streets, Carson City, Nevada
Address: 331 West Proctor Street
Assessor's PN: 003-211-01
Current use: Residence
Original use: Residence
Year of construction: Circa 1895
The vernacular board and batten cottage has a concrete block foundation and a combination of shed and gabled roof forms. Windows are double-hung and either many-paned or one-light-over-one. There are no decorative features. The utilitarian vernacular building is essentially styless. The building is cumulative in form with additions to all sides except the east. The porch has been enclosed and screened.
A small freestanding metal garage stands to the east of the cottage and may (or may not be) actually part of this property.
The cottage is smaller in scale, height and mass than adjacent houses. Its material is also different than its neighbors. Its utilitarian design is compatible, but its combination of forms gives it a notable uniqueness.
The significance of the structure lies not in it architectural importance but with its historical associations. The structure was the dwelling of Dat-So-La-Lee. a Washoe Indian woman, famed for her excellent basket work reflecting original Washoe techniques and design, and her important cultural contributions through that medium. She was established in this cottage by Abe and Amy Cohn in the mid 1890s. The Cohn's built and lived in the larger house next door at 333 West Proctor and served as her benefactor for the last thirty years that she wove baskets and dwelt here. Many of her fine works are now on display at the Nevada State Museum.
Sources: Nevada State Survey; Phyllis and Lou Zauner, Carson City, Nevada (1977), p. 24.
Listed in the National Historic Register: 1994 June 06.
City Landmark: Kit Carson Trail, Plaque No. 40.
Year of construction: 1895 (estimated), on the original site (assumed) .
Architect: Unknown.
Text: Carson City Historic Resources Inventory, 1980 & 1988.