Historic Reno Preservation Society

Vol. 11, No. 3 – Summer 2008

• Downtown Reno Comes Full Circle
• Roy Frisch – The Man Who Knew Too Much
• “Walls of Wrath” Bus Tour
• Helen J. Stewart, First Lady of Las Vegas
• On the Historic Register: “Hawkins House” 549 Court Street, Reno, NV

Vol. 11, No.2 – Spring 2008

• 100 Years: Mackay School of Mines 1908-2008
• The Downtown Post Office Mystery Mural Hunt
• Finding My Great-Grandparents' House, 57 Boyd Place
• Trinity Episcopal Church

Vol. 10, No. 4 – Fall 2007

• The Beginnings of HRPS, Ten Years Ago
• HRPS and Reno Milestones 1997-2007
• A Tale of Five Presidents

Vol. 10, No. 3 – Summer 2007

• Harry Gosse and the Riverside Hotel
• Relocated History
• City of Reno's Landmark & State Champion Trees

Vol. 10, No. 2 – Spring 2007

• Virginia Street Bridge, The Bridge of Sighs
• It Is Not Just a Stump
• The Mapes Hotel and Casino, Reno's Landmark Hotel
• Historic Maps Online – Next Best Thing

Vol. 10, No. 1 – Winter 2007

• Reno's Arches: The Whole Story
• Memories of the Mizpah
• Shangri-La was Home to Shaws, the Mission and Seach Family
• The Sanborn Maps of Reno
• The Anniversary of the Interstate

Vol. 9, No. 4 – Fall 2006

• Reno Press Brick: A Reno Institution
• Reno's African-American Divorce Trade
• Roberts: A Whiskey Barrel on Every Corner

Vol. 9, No. 3 – Summer 2006

• East Fourth Street, Old and New
• Open Mic Night as HRPS
• Jacob Davis, A Riveting Notion

Vol. 9, No. 2 – Spring 2006

• Housing Reno's 1930s Divorce Trade
• The Virginia and Truckee in Reno, 1872-1950
• Reno and the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
• Carpenter Gothic Country Houses of Northern Nevada

Vol. 9, No.1 – Winter 2006

• Hillside Cemetery, 1875-2005
• A Night of Not-So-Living History
• Architect Russell Mills
• Reno's Catholic Churches, A Trial by Fire
• A Street by Any Other Name…

Vol. 8, No. 4 – Fall 2005

• 2005 UNR Master Plan
• A Look Back at July 2005 Walking Tours
• Downtown Reno Churches 1870-1950
• The Role of Joss House in the Chinese Community

Vol. 8, No. 3 – Summer 2005

• Take a Walk and Discover Reno

Vol. 8, No. 2 – Spring 2005

• Truckee Meadows Remembered: A Success Story in Preserving Nevada Ranching Culture
• The Gray Lady of West First Street
• On the National Historic Register: Morrill Hall
• The Steadfast Lutherans
• HRPS Powning Project Update

Vol. 8, No.1 – Winter 2005

• Bethel AME; The Oldest Surviving African American Church in Nevada
• Edward Parsons, Architect
• 2004 HRPS Historic Preservation Award: 93 Bell, A Real Adaptive Reuse Success!!
• Memories of Teaching in Frandsen
• The Federated Church, A Tale of Two Churches
• Works Progress Administration 1936 Survey a Find for Researchers

Vol. 7, No. 4 – Fall 2004

• Early Reno's Religious Structures
• Frederic DeLongchamps, Architect
• Nevada's First Synagogue, Temple Emanu-El, 1921
• Tough Little Church on Second Street
• A Historic Preservation Success, the Lake Mansion

Vol. 7, No. 3 – Summer 2004

• Reno's El Reno Apartments
• El Reno Developer Roland Giroux by Caricaturist Lew Hymers
• Paul Revere Williams, Architect
• On the Historic Register, the Luella Garvey House
• On the Historic Register, the ATO House
• Sharon Walbridge Honored with HRC Advocate Award
• FootPrints Receives HRC Significant Historic Resource Award
• Truckee Meadows Remembered – Barns or Bust
• Friends of the Washoe County Library Present Award to HRPS

Vol. 7, No. 2 – Spring 2004

• The Westward Migration to the Truckee Meadows
• Bringing Water to the Truckee Meadows, The Ditches
• Viewing the Ditches Today, Walking the Steamboat
• Water Diversions Along the Truckee River
• The Development of Reno and the Truckee Meadows: Land Ownership, Discovery of Gold & Silver, Farming, Railroads, Water and People
• 629 Jones, in the Cann Family for 100 Years
• Postcards by William Cann

Vol. 7, No. 1 – Winter 2004

• A Historic Preservation Story, 93 Bell
• HRPS Focus: C.C. Powning and the Powning Addition
• HRPS Awarded Grant from Nevada Arts Council
• C.C. Powning and Reno Water, Land and Light Co.
• A C.C. Powning Lettter and the power of Coincidence
• The Powning, Poor, Bell Connection
• On the National Register of Historic Places: the El Cortez Hotel
• Update on 937 Jones, the Arrizabalaga or Upson House
• Correction to the deLongchamps House, 821 No. Center
• The Verdi Library Collects the Town's History

Vol. 6, No. 3 – Fall 2003

• The American Dream, Reno's Little Italy In Powning's Addition
• Historic Districts
• Christopher Columbus Powning, Reno's First Leader
• Nominated for the National Register of Historic Places: 937 Jones Street
• September Tours in the City of Trembling Leaves
• Literary Reno Tour
• 2003 Historic Reno Preservation Society Award to Joanne de Longchamps House Northern Nevada International Center

Vol. 6, No. 1 – Winter 2003

• Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the Transcontinental Highways
• Overview of the Bricks & Stones Neighborhood
• The Giraud-Hardy House, 442 Flint Street, Reno
• B.D. Billinghurst Junior High School
• The Lander Street Grocery
• On the National Register of Historic Places: The B.D. Billinghurst Home, 729 Evans Avenue, Reno
• Historic Resources Commission Report
• RSCVA Emphasizes Cultural Tourism and Historic Sites
• Old Barns are Like Old Suspenders
• How to be a House Detective
• Preserving Nevada Barns

Vol. 5, No. 3 – Fall 2002

• The Story of HRPS Walking Tours
• Overview of the Wells Avenue Tour Neighborhood
• Memories of 511 Roberts and Wells Avenue's Oldest Resident
• Beloved Physician Passes / The Naming of Thoma Street
• Remembering Sage
• Completion of the Lincoln and Victory Highways: California Celebrates by Building the California Building
• A Grand Day at the Exposition
• 2002 Preservation Award Presented to Artist's Co-op Gallery

Vol. 5, No. 2 – Spring 2002

• The Powning Addition: Reno's Little Italy
• Five Years Old and On the Move!
• Calling All Photos, Memories, Memorabilia
• Historic Reno Preservation Society Strategic Plan 2001-2003
• Famous figures in Reno's Historical Past: Frederic J. DeLongchamps
• Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Historic Registers but Were Afraid to Believe
• My Legacy: The Next Generation

Vol. 5, No. 1 – Winter 2002

• A Night to Reminisce
• Who Controls Your Property?
• Demolition Through Neglect
• Walking Tours Update
• Another Landmark Gone
• “The Riverside” Documentary to Air on KNBP in February
• HRPS Teams with RSCVA to Promote Heritage Tourism
• HRC Reports
• HRC Examines Its Ordinance
• HRC Property Survey Goes From Cyberspace to Paper
• Reno Hosts National Trust Meeting
• HRPS Remembers When... Scenes from around Reno
• Creating a Walking Tour

Vol. 4, No. 2 – Summer 2001

• A Letter From the HRPS Board to the Membership
• Neighborhoods for Everyone! A Glorious Success
• HRPS Annual Meeting
• Preservation and Choice
• HRPS Preservation Award Winners
• At Last the Map Is Here and Ready for You to Enjoy!
• 2001 Historic Preservation Week Walking Tours Success
• Preservation Possibilities
• “I Will Not Go Downtown. There's Never Any Place to Park!”

Vol. 4, No. 1 – Winter 2001

• On the Atchison, Topeka To The “Santa Fe”
• Opportunity Knocks: Are You at Home or Perhaps in the Office?
• The Last Word
• Our Town, One Town: Neighborhoods to Downtown
• City of Reno Conference of Neighborhoods
• AT&T Before and After Renderings

Vol. 3, No. 3 – Fall 2000

• Wondering about Thinking
• Walk, Walk, We're Gonna Walk All Over You
• Progress – At Last – On Good Old East Fourth Street
• Heritage Coalition Is Not Idle!
• HRPS Sponsors First VIP Bus Tour
• Recycling Old Buildings: Historic Preservation and Adaptive Reuse
• One Region One Vision and Historic Preservation
• Adaptive Reuse, Artfully Done

Vol. 3, No. 2 – Spring/Summer 2000

• Huffaker School: 1867-1951
• Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch – Annual Meeting
• HRPS Partners with Virginia City's Fourth Ward School
• What Was the Population of the City of Reno from 1870 on?
• Preservation Week 2000
• An Interview with Christine Fey
• Adaptive Reuse: Think About It!
• Who Was Granville W. Huffaker
• McKinley Park School: A “Make-Over” Success
• Claire and Ron Evenson Memorial Fund

Vol. 3, No. 1 – Winter/Spring 2000

• Lights, Camera, Laughter – It's Retro at the Trocadero!
• National Trust Celebrates 50th Anniversary
• How About a Microbrewed Reno?
• Reinventing the Biggest Little City in the World
• Walking Tours a Bold Success
• Oral History Workshop Part of HRPS Educational Series
• Century Ends with Reno History Class

Vol. 2, No. 3 – September 1999

• Trailing the Donners
• HRPS Receives Preservation Week Award
• Blast from the Past Walking Tours
• County Works to Restore Historic Courthouse
• HRPS Gives the History of Reno as a Gift to Our Children
• Heritage Tourism Coalition
• The First Hotel Built in the World After World War II
• Wells Avenue Behind the Scenes

Vol. 2, No. 2 – April 1999

• Arches & Columns: “Nevada's First Robber Baron”
• Join Us for HRPS 1st Oral History Workshop
• Heritage Tourism Coalition
• Walking Tour Training
• Bus Tour: “Trailing the Donners”
• “Railroad Project Threatens Historic Rail Deport”
• “The History of Reno” - A Gift from HRPS to Our Children
• Building Partnerships

Vol. 2, No. 1 – January 1999

• Arches & Columns: Reno's Art Deco
• 70th Anniversary of Reno/Tahoe International Airport
• Reno Metallica
• Exempt Firemans' Cemetery Tour
• The 52nd National Preservation Conference
• Meet Gaye Canepa – President of the Reno/Sparks Business Corridor Association (Fourth Street)
• Great Fun at Louis' Basque Corner
• Mapes Update

Vol. 1, No. 3 – August 1998

• Life Before Louis'
• HRPS in Action
• Walking the Walk
• Historic Preservation Part of Uptown Downtown ARTown
• Flanigan Warehouse Tour
• Mayors Conference River Walk
• Mapes on America's Eleven Most Endangered Historic Places List

Vol. 1, No. 2 – May 1998

• 4th Street Needs You!
• Letter From the Editor – Sharon Walbridge

Vol. 1, No. 1 – January 1998

• Historic Reno Preservation Society a Reality
• Champions of the River
• A Logo At Last
• HRPS Membership
• Truckee Meadows Heritage Trust Joins Preservation Effort
• Heads Up! - What's the fate of the Amtrack train station and the El Cortez Hotel?
• Goals of Historic Reno Preservation Society