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This captivating enclave close to Reno’s downtown is probably the city’s best-kept secret.
The project was a joint venture of Joe Ginocchio and his sister, Katherine Ghiglieri, whose family had owned the land for…This impressive Newlands Heights home was finished in 1907 as a statement piece for U.S. Senator George S. Nixon, who was elected in 1905 by the Nevada State Legislature (which elected the state's representatives to the U.S. Senate until 1909).…Merchant Wilhelm Levy immigrated to America from Prussia (Germany). Some of Reno’s most striking and glamorous architecture is found in buildings of the Modern Era. The Modern Movement (MoMo), broadly defined as spanning from the 1930s through the 1970s, is associated with styles including Art Deco, Art and Streamline Moderne, Mid-Century Modern, International, Googie, New Formalism, and Brutalism. While “Midtown” is a relatively new term for the popular Reno district it denotes, the neighborhood itself has been a busy commercial and residential area for nearly a century.
It was similar in appearance to the Armstrong house at 821 N. Center, but its exterior was quite original. Born in New Mexico in 1918, Ribera bought the restaurant at 1415 South Virginia Street from its previous owner, Maria…The two-story solid brick building that stands today at 235 Lake Street is not the original Santa Fe Hotel, although it is located on the same site. The Lake Mansion, now sitting proudly at the corner of Court Street and Arlington Avenue, was built in 1877 by…Known today as the Best Value Lodge, the single-story, 18-unit Longhorn Motel opened at 844 S. Virginia Street on May 15, 1954. In 1945, the Reno School District had originally planned to remodel the existing…The C. Clifton Young Federal Building and U.S. The building housing the first Santa Fe was constructed there in 1913 for a man named A.J. This tour links the downtown Reno arches with stories of the forces that shaped the town: railroad and mining, immigrants, the notorious divorce and gambling mecca — and now as a livable cultural hub. The route–through western Nevada and passing through Fallon, Sparks, and Reno to the California state line–was set by 1921.
Instead, the golden-domed building came to be called the Pioneer Theater-Auditorium after the statue of a pioneer family that stands in…After the demolition of the Carnegie Free Public Library, the Reno branch of the Washoe County Library was housed in the Nevada State Building, which by the mid-1960s, was slated for demolition to make room for the Pioneer Theater and Auditorium. Reno boasts an extraordinary array of tourist lodgings with ties to early motor tourism. It was constructed to unite the departments of Speech Communications and Theater, Art, and Music under one modern…Silas E. Ross Hall opened in June 1957, kicking off a campus construction boom that included the Max C. Fleischmann College of Agriculture Building, the Sarah Hamilton Fleischmann School of Home Economics, the Jot Travis Student Union Building, and…The 80-unit El Rancho Motel No.
The Modern Movement (MoMo), broadly defined as spanning from the 1930s through the 1970s, is associated with styles including Art Deco, Art and Streamline Moderne, Mid-Century Modern, International, Googie, New Formalism, and Brutalism. 2 was opened in 1954 by Pete Cladianos, Sr. on the former site of the Nevada Packing Company, which had ceased operations in 1947, and burned down in 1950.
Tour Description. The…As 1960 approached, the city of Reno was reckoning with its rapid growth and the accompanying need for a new city government facility. At the time, Reno High School was severely overcrowded, and a new high school was needed to accommodate baby boom kids approaching high school age. Roughly bounded by Liberty Street and Plumb Lane on the north and south, Arlington Avenue and Holcomb Avenue on the west and east, today’s Midtown District is a place of innovation and revitalization, but also … Modern buildings incorporated new technologies and materials, among them concrete, aluminum, asbestos, and air conditioning. John M. Fulton moved into the…For full functionality please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Tour Description. Wooster…For full functionality please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.