All Around Reno

All Around Reno http://allaroundreno.com Visit the Reno Area in Virtual Reality Sun, 27 Dec 2009 07:04:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Emigrant Trail, Hidden Valley; by Nichole Brown http://allaroundreno.com/?p=143 http://allaroundreno.com/?p=143#comments Sun, 27 Dec 2009 06:52:46 +0000 admin http://allaroundreno.com/?p=143 In Hidden Valley a short segment of the Emigrant Trail is identified by markers and fenced off for preservation. If you look carefully, you can note the wagon ruts in the dirt. The Donner Party likely used this route in 1846.

]]> http://allaroundreno.com/?feed=rss2&p=143 0 McCarran Mansion; by Danny Schotthoefer http://allaroundreno.com/?p=136 http://allaroundreno.com/?p=136#comments Thu, 24 Dec 2009 04:45:43 +0000 admin http://allaroundreno.com/?p=136 Click on the doorway to enter the mansion.
Built in 1913 as the Gibbons Mansion, the home was purchased by up-and-coming Nevada lawyer, judge, and politician Pat McCarran in 1921. His law practice thrived in the days of the “Reno Cure” for troublesome marriages. Among his famous clients was actress Mary Pickford. The property passed through other owners in the years following McCarran’s death in 1954. Now restored, it houses the offices of ELP Capital, Inc., and IntoHomes Mortgage Services.

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]]> http://allaroundreno.com/?feed=rss2&p=136 0 Lake Mansion; by Matt Myers http://allaroundreno.com/?p=125 http://allaroundreno.com/?p=125#comments Wed, 23 Dec 2009 02:31:40 +0000 admin http://allaroundreno.com/?p=125 Click on the doorway to enter.
Built in 1877, the building was sold to Myron Lake in 1879. His toll bridge, the first commercial crossing of the Truckee, provided a name, “Lake’s Crossing,” for the settlement that was to become Reno.

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]]> http://allaroundreno.com/?feed=rss2&p=125 0 Donner Lake Beach; by Caitlin Filer http://allaroundreno.com/?p=104 http://allaroundreno.com/?p=104#comments Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:22:51 +0000 admin http://allaroundreno.com/?p=104 Donner Lake was named after the unfortunate Donner Party, which spent a long and tragic winter near the lake in 1846. A museum on the northeast shore has artifacts from the period.

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]]> http://allaroundreno.com/?feed=rss2&p=104 0 Reno Amtrak Station; by Andrew Perkins http://allaroundreno.com/?p=92 http://allaroundreno.com/?p=92#comments Tue, 22 Dec 2009 05:44:54 +0000 admin http://allaroundreno.com/?p=92 Click the hotspot to enter the station.
The Central Pacific Railroad reached Reno in the spring of 1868. The town’s first railroad station was build the next year. It burned down in the great fire of 1879. Its successor was also destroyed by fire. The third station lasted until 1925, when its new owner, the Southern Pacific Railroad, constructed the current building.

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]]> http://allaroundreno.com/?feed=rss2&p=92 0 Reno Post Office; by Lucy Osborne http://allaroundreno.com/?p=89 http://allaroundreno.com/?p=89#comments Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:49:09 +0000 admin http://allaroundreno.com/?p=89 Click on the target to enter the Post Office.
The downtown Reno post office was designed by Frederick DeLongchamps in 1932 and opened in 1934. The aluminum panels over the entrances salute transportation and are similar in style to the patriotic and American Indian motifs in the interior. The first-floor lobby contains ornamented, dark marble walls accented with cast aluminum. The City of Reno has purchased the building, and plans to restore the open atrium of the original design.

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]]> http://allaroundreno.com/?feed=rss2&p=89 0 Pioneer Center; by Sean Mazner http://allaroundreno.com/?p=86 http://allaroundreno.com/?p=86#comments Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:41:08 +0000 admin http://allaroundreno.com/?p=86 Click on the red targets to enter and explore.
The Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts opened in 1968. The auditorium is topped with a 140-foot diameter gold-anodized geodesic dome made up of 500 faceted panels, a design inspired by architect Buckminster Fuller. The Pioneer Center is home to the Reno Philharmonic, the Nevada Opera Association, and the A.V.A. Ballet Theatre.

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]]> http://allaroundreno.com/?feed=rss2&p=86 0 Bowers Mansion; by Courtney Law, 2008 http://allaroundreno.com/?p=82 http://allaroundreno.com/?p=82#comments Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:19:54 +0000 admin http://allaroundreno.com/?p=82 The Bowers Mansion, in rural Washoe County between Reno and Carson City, stands as a reminder of how fortunes were made and lost with the Comstock bonanza. Lemuel S. “Sandy” and Eilley Orrum Bowers were probably the first millionaires produced by the fabulous find in Gold Canyon.
As strangers, they had adjoining claims. After a rich vein was struck, they were soon married and had the mansion built.
The mansion was the fulfillment of Eilley’s dreams of prestige and respectability when it was completed in 1864. The Bowers employed stonecutters from Scotland for the construction of their new home, which eventually cost $400,000 to build, an exorbitant sum in the 1860s. Eilley and Sandy toured Europe purchasing furniture, statuary, painting and other adornments for their home.
Misfortune followed fortune and soon all was lost. The richness of their vein gave out; a new mill was destroyed; financiers balked. Then Sandy died in 1868.
Eilley struggled on, finally, in 1878, losing the mansion by foreclosure. Ultimately, Eilley went blind and deaf. Impoverished, she died in 1903 in California.
The building was restored in 1967 and is now owned by the Washoe County Parks Department. Tours of the mansion are given in summer and autumn.
From the Nevada State Historic Preservation Office and the National Park Service

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]]> http://allaroundreno.com/?feed=rss2&p=82 0 El Cortez Hotel; by Brett Corbin http://allaroundreno.com/?p=78 http://allaroundreno.com/?p=78#comments Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:08:45 +0000 admin http://allaroundreno.com/?p=78 Click on the target to enter.
Designed by Reno-based architect George Ferris and his son, the El Cortez Hotel was Reno’s tallest building when it was completed in 1931. Today it is one of three remaining major Art Deco buildings in the city. In its heyday the hotel featured the Orchid Room and a popular restaurant called the Tracedero Room. The El Cortez was built in anticipation of increased divorce traffic after Nevada’s divorce laws were liberalized.

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]]> http://allaroundreno.com/?feed=rss2&p=78 0 NCORy Building; by Zachary Hausauer http://allaroundreno.com/?p=74 http://allaroundreno.com/?p=74#comments Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:37:49 +0000 admin http://allaroundreno.com/?p=74 Click on the doorway to enter.
This building was constructed in 1910 as the passenger depot for the Nevada-California-Oregon Railway, a narrow-gauge line connecting Reno with northern California and southern Oregon. It is located at Record and 4th Streets.

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