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1859, Charles Fuller decided to build a hotel in Reno for the Comstock
"fortune" hunters who were striking it rich in gold and silver.
Myron Lake changed the name of the hotel into Lake's Crossing. After a
devastating fire in 1870, rebuilds on the site and calls the hotel the
Lake House. In 1888, new owner and manager Harry Gosse replaces the wooden
structure to brick and renames it, the more familiar Riverside Hotel.
 Fire
strikes again in 1922 and destroys the building, until two years later
when George Wingfield purchases property and hires notable Nevada architect
Frederic J. DeLongchamps to design a new building. The new Riverside Hotel
opens to the public in 1927.
Over the next 36 years,
the hotel goes through a series of owners, including Jesse Beck and Pick
Hobson, as well as renovations with the addition of a new west wing and
a swimming pool.
 In
December of 1986, the Riverside Hotel closed.
The building sat dark
and dormant until 1997 when the Reno Redevelopment Agency acquired the
structure. Sierra Arts Foundation, a local arts agency, entered into a
partnership with Artspace Projects, Inc. to rehabilitate the Riverside
Hotel as artist live/work spaces. In 1999, the partnership between Sierra
Arts and Artspace became official and developer Oliver McMillan finalized
a contract with the City of Reno to renovate the building.
In October of 2001,
construction of the Sierra Arts Gallery, office space and the Riverside
Artist Lofts is completed and Sierra Arts Foundation Triumphantly moves
into the space.
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