Whiskey Row

About Dennis Gallagher.

Dennis is the founder, curator and CEO of the Prescott Western Heritage Foundation and the Western Heritage Center, located on Whiskey Row in Prescott.

In 2024 Dennis was awarded the Elizabeth Ruffner Keystone Award for Community Leadership.

Later that year, the Western Heritage Center received the 2024 Governor's Heritage Preservation Honor Award.

It is the kind of restaurant where locals meet for lunch, mm, yummy, pistachio salad.

Business groups gather upstairs, families celebrate birthdays, and visitors stop after walking around the Courthouse Square in Whiskey Row.

The building itself is known as the Mulvian Building.

But the structure standing there today is not the first building to occupy that address.

It was known as the Mulvolen Saloon.

Then, on July 14th, 1900, Prescott's great fire tore through downtown.

The fire destroyed most of Whiskey Row and many of the surrounding businesses, including the original saloon on this site.

Prescott began rebuilding almost immediately.

Our Instagram is, uh, all she wrote official.

And, uh, we're playing this Saturday at whiskey river tavern on whiskey row.

What else you got? What other shows coming up? I saw you got one coming up in December with, uh,

yeah, thank you.

And I just wanted to get out of the city.

You know, I when I quit drinking, I was like, why am I living here? Why am I in this place? So

then you moved to Whiskey Row.

That's all right.

From 7 to 10 p.m., they say arrive at least by 6.30 to get on the sign-in sheet there.

And that is on Whiskey Row, for those looking for it.

Montezuma Street, 160 South Montezuma Street.

Hosted currently by Don and Daryl.

Cool little town.

Saw a live band right there on Whiskey Row.

I showed my son where Wyatt Earp used to party on Whiskey Row.

Very nice.

Yeah.

So Prescott's red light district and double-decker brothel had a lot of history.

When people think about historic Prescott downtown, they usually picture just Whiskey Row.

They picture cowboys, saloons, gunfights, the courthouse plaza, but behind Whiskey Row, almost deliberately tucked out of sight, was another part of Prescott entirely.

All along South Granite Street between Gurley and Goodwin Street stood Prescott's red light district.

The respectable residents of Prescott apparently didn't like to say its name.

More than 100 years later, the City of Prescott decided to construct the Granite Street parking garage.

Before construction could begin, archeologists were brought in to investigate what remained beneath the property.

What they uncovered didn't just reveal the story of the Double Decker brothel, it opened a window into the lives of two communities that had existed side by side behind Whiskey Row and had both been pushed by the margins of Prescott society.