Nevada Historical Society Docent Council

Find all that CLAN owns in the series....
Heck, find all whenever I travel the country. Arcadia Publishing figured out a good thing, for historians and ppl (like me) w/ just a casual interest, both.

For example, here I learned enough about Christopher Columbus Powning to realize I want to know more about him, or at least tout his name to friends. He was apparently a hard worker who never let an opportunity pass by: he started out as a teen selling newspapers, by the time he was 22 he owned the Nevada State Journal, then was elected state senator and developed Powning's Addition (an early housing development) and was an owner of the Reno Water, Land, and Light Company. He died at age 46 in 1898.

I'm also tempted to go see a building up in Reno designed by DeLongchamps. The book says it's 'art moderne' with an exterior of terracotta excised to look like quarried stone, and a lobby of ornamented dark marble walls accented with cast aluminum. The caption to the photo is awkwardly phrased but I think they're saying it's currently the post office on Virginia St. at the Truckee bridge. If so, it should be more famous. I'll have to do a Google image search, at least.… (més)