Downtown Reno Library

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Downtown Reno Library
(listed as Washoe County Library)
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The interior of the library
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Location301 S. Center St., Reno, Nevada
Coordinates 39°31′20″N119°48′37″W / 39.52222°N 119.81028°W / 39.52222; -119.81028
Built1965
Architect Hewitt C. Wells
Architectural style Modern
NRHP reference No. 13000011 [1]
Added to NRHPFebruary 13, 2013

The Downtown Reno Library is the main library of the Washoe County Library System, at 301 S. Center St. in Reno, Nevada. It occupies a historic Modern-style building listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Washoe County Library. It is known also as the Downtown Library. It was designed by Hewitt Campau Wells in Modern style and was built in 1965. [2]

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The building received the national Industrial Landscape Award in 1968 for its interior use of plants, shrubs, and trees as an integral part of its design. The award, presented by Lady Bird Johnson in Washington, D.C., was given specifically to architect Hewitt Wells, to landscape architect Mitchell Serven, and to Purdy and Fitzpatrick Nursery. [2] Although the building was less than 50 years old, the usual requirement, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. [1] [2]

It has a fallout shelter which in 2015 was one of the few remaining ones in Reno. [3]

In 2014 Cengage Learning gave the library the award "coolest internal space", giving the library $500. [4]

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  1. 1 2 "Weekly list". National Park Service.
  2. 1 2 3 Susie Trexler and Sara Fogelquist (August 12, 2012). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Washoe County Library / Downtown Library or Downtown Reno Library" (PDF). National Park Service.
  3. Skorupa, Susan (April 27, 2015). "9 newsy library things: geocaching and fallout shelter". Reno Gazette Journal . Retrieved March 21, 2021.
  4. Robison, Mark (April 14, 2014). "Downtown Reno library named 'coolest internal space'". Reno Gazette Journal . Retrieved March 21, 2021.