The collection is comprised of architectural records (1947-2001) of American architect, Homer Rissman and the architectural firm, Rissman and Rissman Associates Ltd, a partnership of Homer Rissman and his brother Marshall. The collection includes 825 items from over 40 major projects and over 110 minor projects. The Rissmans' work represented in the collection focused on Las Vegas, Reno, and Lake Tahoe, Nevada, Los Angeles, Southern California, and Arizona, with Homer's early career design work in Chicago, Illinois. The materials feature hand-drawn architectural drawings, ranging from pencil and ink on tracing paper preliminary sketches to ink on Mylar (TM) construction documents, and a number of artist’s renderings, used for presentations and promotional materials. The drawings also contain work from a number of consultants, engineers, and other architects who collaborated on the development of the various projects. The collection includes architectural drawings for: hotels, casinos, integrated casino resorts, office towers, multi-family residential developments, and custom single-family homes.
Information about the Barker Motel sign that sits at 2600 N Las Vegas Blvd. Site address: 2600 N Las Vegas Blvd Sign owner: Barker LLC Sign details: 0.21 acre lot constructed in 1954. Property is closed. Sign condition: 2- the sign is faded and neon has fallen off, as well as the majority of their original sign was taken down or weathered away Sign form: Directional sign on top of building Sign-specific description: The property has a tower which has a sign on top of it that is a peach colored arrow that has dark brown block lettering stating "MOTEL" that points towards the entrance of the parking lot of the motel. This end of the arrow has a steel support that goes to the first story of the building. This portion looks like it used to have skeletal neon but has fallen off. Near the road where this motel is located it looks as though there was once a sign because there is remnants of what the base of the sign was but no graphics on it. Sign - type of display: Neon Sign - media: Steel Sign environment: Located in North Las Vegas, close to Jerry's Nugget Casino Sign - date of redesign/move: Appears there are remnants of their original sign on the roadside, but the letters has been removed. It has been this way since at least 2010. Sign - thematic influences: The arrow stating Motel is a 1950's/60's motel trend within the car consumer era and era of traveling to draw attention for people that are driving by. Survey - research locations: Assessor's website Survey - research notes: http://stefanidrivesvegas.com/12.html Stefani drives Vegas has images of before/after of this motel with an image that they date circa 1960 Surveyor: Emily Fellmer Survey - date completed: 2017-09-08 Sign keywords: Neon; Steel; Directional; Paint