The Mapes Hotel was a hotel and casino located in Downtown Reno, Nevada, next to the Truckee River on Virginia Street. It was built in 1947 and opened on December 17 of that year. It was the first skyscraper built in the Western United States since the start of World War II.

Jan 28, 2025 · 25 years ago, Reno's historic Mapes Hotel-Casino was demolished. Take a look back with us. This article, written by then-investigative reporter Frank X. Mullen, originally appeared in the...

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 as world-class performers.

Jan 29, 2025 · 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 Hotel was a ...

Jan 30, 2025 · RENO, Nev. (News 4 & Fox 11) — Thursday marks 25 years since the downtown skyline changed forever when the iconic Mapes Hotel in Reno was imploded, a significant event in the city's history. The ...

Dec 15, 2017 · When the downtown hotel-casino closed its doors on Dec. 17, 1982, it was a metaphor for the rough-and-tumble Reno that had been and was no more. At 8 a.m. today, the ruined hotel was...

Jan 29, 2025 · Part of the fabric of the family’s story includes the Mapes Hotel, which stood tall in downtown Reno for over half a century until it was demolished on a chilly winter day on Jan. 30, 2000.

The first high-rise hotel and casino built in the United States, it became the prototype for later casinos in Reno, Las Vegas, and Atlantic City. Until the city of Reno imploded it on Super Bowl Sunday in January 2000, the twelve-story hotel occupied a prominent site in downtown Reno along Virginia Street and the Truckee River.

Mapes Hotel (site) The luxury hotel-casino revolutionized Reno's gambling landscape upon its 1947 opening. The 12-story Mapes Hotel became the tallest building in Nevada when it burst onto the Reno scene in 1947.

Jan 30, 2025 · 25 years ago on this day, on January 30th, 2000, on Super Bowl Sunday that year, crowds gathered in downtown Reno, tension was in the air, firefighters and police were nervous, birds went crazy, and then in an instant, the 12-story 1947 Mapes Hotel was turned into a pile of dust. What was once the