Visit Oasis Bordello Museum, Wallace, Idaho

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The Oasis Bordello Museum is dedicated to the history of sex work; housed in a former brothel, curious tourists or nostalgic former patrons can tour the upstairs, which has been preserved as it was when the women left. The former Lux Rooms has been repurposed into a boutique inn, and it also has many elements preserved from its brothel roots, including floor-to-ceiling gold veined mirrors. Built in 1910, this Renaissance Revival-style building was built to serve as a commercial building and as the home of the Oasis Rooms, a bordello. The building features a red brick exterior with buff brick trim, decorative patterned brickwork, paired one-over-one double-hung windows, a neon sign mounted to the front facade, and a large first floor bay with plate glass windows and transoms. The building is a contributing structure in the Wallace Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976, and expanded to its present size in 1983.

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