Built in the mid-1940s from 20-year-old plans, the Mapes' art deco style was already becoming nostalgic. It opened as Nevada's tallest building in 1947, and its Sky Room overlooked a town that ...

Virginia St., formerly the Virginian Hotel-Casino, houses studio apartments ... The supersized mural was painted over a three ...

If the bricks of the Mapes Hotel-Casino could talk ... your life in your hands if you walked down Virginia Street. The Mapes changed that." Reno grew into a city known around the world ...