Riverside Hotel (Reno)
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| Location | 17 South Virginia Street Reno, Nevada 89501 |
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| Coordinates | 39°31′28.92″N 119°48′44.68″W / 39.5247000°N 119.8124111°WCoordinates: 39°31′28.92″N 119°48′44.68″W / 39.5247000°N 119.8124111°W |
| Built | 1927 |
| Architect | Frederic DeLongchamps |
| Architectural style | Gothic Revival |
| MPS | Architecture of Frederick J. DeLongchamps TR |
| NRHP Reference # | 86002256 |
| Added to NRHP | August 6, 1986 |
Riverside Hotel is a former hotel and casino in Reno, Nevada, that sits on the exact location where Reno began in 1859. The building now houses apartments and studios for artists, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
C. W. Fuller operated a log building on this location that provided food and shelter to gold-seekers who were passing through the area in the reverse gold rush called the "Rush to Washoe" (meaning people were heading east from instead of west to California), spurred by the gold, and later silver, strikes of the . Myron Lake owned the property from 1861 into the 1880s, running consecutive hotel businesses under the name Lake's House. After Lake's death, his daughter and son-in-law operated the hotel and renamed it the Riverside. A subsequent owner, Harry Gosse, converted the small frame building into a brick hotel, retaining the name Riverside. His daughter, Marguerite Gosse, was a Nevada Assemblywoman. This version of the Riverside Hotel was destroyed in a fire. Gosse intended to rebuild but was unable to finance the project and George Wingfield, Reno's most powerful man at the time, acquired the property.
Nevada's pre-eminent architect and former mining engineer Frederic DeLongchamps designed the 1927 version of the Riverside Hotel for George Wingfield. At six stories high, the Riverside was Reno's tallest building at the time of its construction. For the building's design, DeLongchamps employed the rich red brick, so common in Reno, with contrasting cream-colored Gothic Revival style terra cotta detailing. Situated as it is along the Truckee River, next to the Washoe County Courthouse, also designed by DeLongchamps, the Riverside was Reno's most popular hotel. Following the passage of the liberal 1931 divorce law, George Wingfield installed an enormous roof sign advertising the hotel in glowing neon that was visible all over the Truckee Meadows. The Riverside had an international reputation and was mentioned in nearly all of the novels and films featuring Reno divorces.
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