Search Results
Photograph of Las Vegas Club and Overland Hotel (Las Vegas) at night, after 1949
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Site Name: Las Vegas Club
Address: 18 East Fremont Street
Image
Photograph of the hotel lobby of the Desert Inn (Las Vegas), after 1950
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Site Name: Desert Inn
Address: 3045 Las Vegas Boulevard South
Image
Photograph of Maude Frazier Hall construction, Nevada Southern University, circa 1957
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Image
Photograph of Maude Frazier Hall construction, Nevada Southern University, circa 1957
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Image
Photograph of Maude Frazier Hall construction, Nevada Southern University, circa 1957
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Image
Photograph of construction of Nevada Southern University, Las Vegas, circa 1960s
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Image
Aerial view of the Hoover Dam, approximately 1934-1936
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Image
Trump Tower on the Las Vegas Strip, Las Vegas, Nevada: digital photograph
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Image
Photograph of Mizpah Hotel, Tonopah, Nevada, circa 1980s
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Image
Transcript of interview with Brad Nelson by Stefani Evans, October 30, 2017
Date
Archival Collection
Description
In 1984, with the advice of his father ringing in his ears, Brad Nelson uprooted his wife and two children from their Denver home and moved them to Henderson, Nevada, where he would begin a new adventure in shaping the new master-planned community of Green Valley with Mark Fine and American Nevada Corporation (ANC). Nelson, lifelong Nebraskan and only child of his parents, arrived armed with a Bachelor's degree in landscape architecture with urban planning option, a Master's degree in urban planning, and fifteen years of planning and executive experience with the national firm of Harmon, O'Donnell and Henniger Planning Consultants. He arrived in time to plan Green Valley's first village, the Village of Silver Spring. By the time he left ANC for Lake Las Vegas in 1999, his work was done and most large parcels had been sold. As Nelson puts it, by 1999 ANC was "out of land, and I'm a land guy." Lake Las Vegas had plenty of undeveloped land, so "land guy" Nelson a chief operating officer
Text