
The Rhyolite Cook Bank Building in its heyday. The original cost to build it was $90,000.00

Cook Bank Building in the 1930s.

Cook Bank Building early 1940s

Cook Bank building 1948
But a reversal of fortune hit the town; the biggest mine dried up, and new investors weren't willing to throw more money into mining the area. By 1920, there was no one left.
The town, what was left of it, became a site for movies, and tourists came to see the remnants of the town and all its abandoned buildings.

Cook Bank Building today.
The photos at right, from the Nevada Historical Society, show the decay of one of Rhyolite’s finest structures, the Cook Bank Building, over time.



