1950's BECKWITH Riverside Hotel CASINO Lighter! RENO

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1950's BECKWITH Riverside Hotel CASINO Lighter! *RENO* Please check my sellers list for another rare Riverside Hotel Casino lighter & more great vintage lighters. This vintage 1950's Beckwith USA pocket lighter features the Riverside Hotel Casino in Reno. This is a very rare Beckwith that must have been an award for a Riverside sponsored Bowling Tournament. I will include some history of this early Reno Casino at the end of this item description. Condition is excellent, showing minimal wear. It appears to have hardly, if ever been used. It is all original & in perfect working condition. Paypal is the required payment at listing end. Thanks & Riverside Hotel (Reno) Riverside Hotel U.S. National Register of Historic Places Location: 17 S. Virginia St. Reno, Nevada Coordinates: 39°31′28.92″N 119°48′44.68″W ? / ? 39.5247°N111°W ? / 39.5247;111 Built: 1927 Architect: Frederic DeLongchamps Architectural style(s): Gothic Revival Governing body: Washoe County, Nevada MPS :Architecture of Frederick J. DeLongchamps TR Added to NRHP :August 6, 1986 NRHP Reference#: 76001143 [ 1] The Riverside Hotel is a former hotel in Reno, Nevada , USA, that sits on the exact location where Reno began in 1859. [2 ] The building now houses apartments and studios for artists, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places . Early history C.W. Fuller operated a log building on this location that provided food and shelter to gold -seekers who were passing through the area in the reverse gold rush called the "Rush to Washoe" (meaning people were heading east from instead of west to California ), spurred by the gold, and later silver , strikes of the Comstock Lode . Myron Lake owned the property from 1861 into the 1880s, running consecutive hotel businesses under the name Lake's House. After Lake's death, his daughter and son-in-law operated the hotel and renamed it the Riverside. A subsequent owner, Harry Gosse, converted the small frame building into a brick hotel, retaining the name Riverside. This version of the Riverside Hotel was destroyed in a fire. Gosse intended to rebuild but was unable to finance the project and George Wingfield, Reno's most powerful man at the time, acquired the property. Nevada's pre-eminent architect and former mining engineer Frederic DeLongchamps designed the 1927 version of the Riverside Hotel for George Wingfield. At six stories high, the Riverside was Reno's tallest building at the time of its construction. [2 ] For the building's design, DeLongchamps employed the rich red brick, so common in Reno, with contrasting cream-colored Gothic Revival style terra cotta detailing. Situated as it is along the Truckee River , next to the Washoe County Courthouse , also designed by DeLongchamps, the Riverside was Reno's most popular hotel. Following the passage of the liberal 1931 divorce law, George Wingfield installed an enormous roof sign advertising the hotel in glowing neon that was visible all over the Truckee Meadows . The Riverside had an international reputation and was mentioned in nearly all of the novels and films featuring Reno divorces. The Riverside Hotel was laid out to suit wealthy divorce-seekers, with 40 corner suites that included kitchen facilities and connecting rooms for children and servants. Each of the apartment suites was furnished with a specially designed cork-insulated and tile-lined refrigerator. Cold brine was circulated through the refrigerators from the main refrigeration plant in the basement. There were 60 single rooms for shorter stays as well. Such a room was occupied by Clare Boothe (award-winning author, editor of Vanity Fair , congresswoman and ambassador ) when she arrived in Reno in 1929 to divorce her husband George Brokaw : "Her train arrived in Reno at 4:30 a.m. on Wednesday, February 6, 1929, in a fierce blizzard. Clare's mood turned bleak as the weather when she discovered that her reserved apartment at the Riverside Hotel (a red brick building between the Truckee River and the courthous... read more

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