Built in a distinctive Art Deco style, the hotel was a unique high-rise built to combine a hotel and casino, providing the prototype for modern hotel/casinos. When it opened in 1947, the 12-story …

6 days ago · 25 years ago, Reno's historic Mapes Hotel-Casino was demolished. Take a look back with us City Plaza has yet to fulfill ambitions for site of Mapes ‘It was beautiful’: Mapes …

4 days ago · First built in 1947, the Mapes Hotel was the brainchild of one of Nevada’s gaming pioneers Charles Mapes Jr. The hotel-casino was as grand as Mapes’ dreams.

5 days ago · One of those in-between places was Charles and Gladys Mapes’ hotel-casino in Reno. ‘Wow, this is pretty cool’ When the Mapes first opened in 1947, the 12-story hotel was …

3 days ago · The Mapes Hotel, built in 1947, was the first skyscraper constructed in the Western United States after World War II, combining a hotel and casino in a distinctive Art Deco style.

4 days ago · The city built a temporary park while waiting for the construction hold-ups, giving City Manager Charles McNeely a $20,000 budget to do so. ... Reno's historic Mapes Hotel-Casino …

For more than three decades, the Mapes and the Riverside were Reno’s most elegant hotel casinos, remembered fondly as the site for high school proms and local dinner dates as well …

Apr 12, 2006 · The story of the rise and fall of the beloved hotel, erected in 1947, is ably told in a new book titled, "Mapes Hotel and Casino: The History of Reno's Landmark Hotel" by Patty …

Feb 4, 2016 · But all good things come to an end and on December 17, 1982—exactly 35 years after it opened—the hotel’s doors were closed. Charles Mapes Jr. had invested heavily in …

The first high-rise hotel and casino built in the United States, it became the prototype for later casinos in Reno, Las Vegas, and For many years the Mapes flourished as “the place to be” in …