The collection is comprised of drawings (1950-1990) completed by American architect Martin Stern and/or his architectural firm, Martin Stern Jr., AIA Architect and Associates, and contains 400 cubic feet of materials including 710 drawings from over 300 different projects involving over 100 buildings. Stern’s work focused on the resort centers of Las Vegas, Nevada; Reno, Nevada; Lake Tahoe, Stateline, Nevada; and Atlantic City, New Jersey. 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.
Bird's eye rendering of proposed Holiday Inn and Casino expansion in Las Vegas. Includes revision date. Original medium: pencil on tracing paper taped to mylar. The property became Harrah's Las Vegas in 1992. Site Name: Holiday Casino Address: 3475 Las Vegas Boulevard South
Howard Dreitzer grew up in Miami, Florida. He came to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1974 and went to dealer school on the GI Bill. Howard starting in gaming dealing craps at the Nevada Club and worked at several casinos downtown. Then he became a box and floor man at the Flamingo Hilton. Howard moved to Atlantic City, New Jersey and was a pit boss and later a shift manager at several casinos there. Then he worked at the Harrahs New Orleans Casino and Hotel until it went bankrupt.
Elevations, details and stair plans for the west façade of the Holiday Inn in Las Vegas. Original medium: paper ozalid. The property became Harrah's Las Vegas in 1992. Rissman and Rissman Associates, Ira Tepper and Associates, mechanical engineers; J. L. Cusick and Associates, electrical engineers; Harold L. Epstein, structural engineer. Site Name: Holiday Casino Address: 3475 Las Vegas Boulevard South