Deadwood historic Main Street
— the street that burned twice and rebuilt in brick.
Not only on a wall.
Deadwood historic Main Street, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
Each tile ships in a kraft box, tied with cream ribbon, with a handwritten note from the studio if you'd like to add one.
Three or five different vistas, hung together — a chapter of places you've been, or want to go.
“Six blocks of brick and sandstone in a narrow gulch, rebuilt after the fires of 1879 and 1894 in the Italianate commercial style of every boomtown that wanted to outlast its luck. Saloon No. 10 sits a few doors from where Wild Bill Hickok was shot in 1876. Limited-stakes gambling came back in 1989 and paid to restore the facades that had been quietly leaning into the next century. from the studio
The place, in three passes.
Deadwood's Main Street runs the length of a narrow gulch in the northern Black Hills of South Dakota. The street was laid out in 1876 as a mining camp at the head of Deadwood Creek and rebuilt in brick and locally quarried sandstone after the fires of 1879 and 1894. The entire commercial core was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1961 as the Deadwood Historic District, one of only a handful of full-town landmark districts in the country. The Italianate storefronts, cast-iron columns, and bracketed cornices reflect a single decade of rebuilding.
South Dakota voters approved limited-stakes gambling for Deadwood in 1989, the first jurisdiction outside Nevada and Atlantic City to do so. A share of the gaming revenue is constitutionally dedicated to historic preservation, and the resulting Deadwood Historic Preservation Commission has funded the restoration of more than a hundred buildings on Main Street since. Each August the city absorbs an overflow of riders from the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally about 14 miles north, and the street fills again in late July for the Days of '76 rodeo, a Wild West heritage event running since 1924.
The historic blocks run roughly from the Franklin Hotel at the south end to the Bullock Hotel at the north, a walk of about six blocks. Saloon No. 10 holds a daily reenactment of the 1876 shooting of Wild Bill Hickok by Jack McCall. The Adams Museum on Sherman Street keeps the Hickok and Calamity Jane archives, and the Mount Moriah Cemetery on the bluff above town holds both graves. Street parking is metered; the city ramps a block off Main are the practical choice on rally weekends.
