Built in the mid-1940s from 20-year-old plans, the Mapes' art deco style was already becoming nostalgic. It opened as ...

Two gas-fueled explosions, 30 seconds apart, ripped through downtown ... by Reno firemen who were joined in mid-afternoon by the Sparks, Carson City and Virginia City fire departments, Nevada ...

Mullen, originally appeared in the Reno Gazette-Journal on Jan. 30, 2000, the date of the Mapes Hotel-Casino's implosion. Since its publication, Nevada lost three of its great keepers of local ...

From his childhood and college days to his last visit before it was torn down, Rick Casazza remembers his time at Reno’s ...

Part of the fabric of the family’s story includes the Mapes Hotel, which stood tall in downtown Reno for over half a ... was the brainchild of one of Nevada’s gaming pioneers Charles Mapes ...