After third husband Lemuel Sanford "Sandy" Bowers (1833-1868) died, Eilley (1826-1903) opened the Bowers Mansion as a spa, and then she tried to sell it to the state as a psychiatric hospital. The mansion that was built for $300,000 in the 1860s ($8.56 million in 2018) was sold at auction in 1876 for $10,000 ($234,000 in 2018) to Myron C. Lake (the founder of Reno) to settle her debts of $13,622. She died in poverty 27 years later at the age of 77; at the height of the silver boom, she was worth $4 million (nearly $77 million in 2018). Bowers Mansion is currently owned by the National Parks Service, and is open for tours May-September each year.