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Proposed exhibition center: addendums 1 and 2: architectural, structural, mechanical, electrical, and plumbing drawings, 1983 June 1

Level of Description

File

Scope and Contents

This set contains architectural drawings for MGM Grand Hotels (client) and includes drawings by Cohen and Kanwar Inc. (engineer) and Hellman and Lober (engineer).

This set includes: index sheet, site plans, floor plans, exit plans, reflected ceiling plans, exterior elevations, building sections, finish schedules, door schedules, interior elevations, lighting fixture schedules, electrical schematics, lighting plans, power plans, mechanical schedules, mechanical plans, foundation plans, demolition plans, and framing plans.

Archival Collection

Martin Stern Architectural Records
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Collection Number: MS-00382
Collection Name: Martin Stern Architectural Records
Box/Folder: Roll 118

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Smoke Ranch: Phase I, 1988 May 24; 1989 April 06

Level of Description

File

Scope and Contents

This set includes: index sheet, landscape plans, site plans, floor plans, exterior elevations, foundation plans, framing plans, roof plans, building sections, finish/door/window schedules, general specifications, construction details, interior elevations, plumbing plans, plumbing schematics, electrical plans, lighting plans, fixture schedules, HVAC plans, water and sewer plans, utility plans and grading plans.

This set includes drawings for the Mueller Group (client) by Bronken Engineering Chartered (engineer).

Archival Collection

Gary Guy Wilson Architectural Drawings
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Collection Number: MS-00439
Collection Name: Gary Guy Wilson Architectural Drawings
Box/Folder: Roll 492

Archival Component

A mailbox in the Ascaya development prior residents building homes, Henderson, Nevada: digital photograph

Date

2017-08-05

Description

Infrastructure for the Ascaya luxury home development, including mailboxes like this one along Cloudrock Court, power, gas, and roads was completed before sales of lots began. This has created the unusual site of having an entire master planned community built but no homes or residents. Ascaya, carved into the McCullough Mountain range in Henderson, Nevada, was completed with materials mined from the site.

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A mailbox in the Ascaya development prior residents building homes, Henderson, Nevada: digital photograph

Date

2017-08-05

Description

Infrastructure for the Ascaya luxury home development, including mailboxes like this one along Cloudrock Court, power, gas, and roads was completed before sales of lots began. This has created the unusual site of having an entire master planned community built but no homes or residents. Ascaya, carved into the McCullough Mountain range in Henderson, Nevada, was completed with materials mined from the site.

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Photograph of construction of an unidentified hotel on the Las Vegas Strip, Nevada, circa 1960s

Date

1960 to 1969

Description

Construction of an unidentified hotel on Las Vegas Strip, Las Vegas, Nevada, circa 1960s.

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Film negatives of building development on the corner of Prisin Zano Circle and Highland Drive, August 24, 1965.

Date

1963-08-24

Description

Set of twelve negatives from Nevada State Museum showing the site for the Gerson Park housing project (?), August 24, 1965.

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Merlino, James Donald "Jim", 1928-

Nye County, Nevada Sheriff who oversaw police activities at anti-nuclear protests at Nevada Test Site. See: http://articles.latimes.com/1988-07-11/news/mn-4277_1_nevada-test-site

Date of birth: 11/25/1928

Place of birth: Wallace, Idaho

Person

Architectural drawing of the New Frontier Hotel and Casino (Las Vegas), proposed complex, 1960s

Date

1959 to 1969

Description

Drawing of proposed New Frontier Hotel and Casino complex. Original medium: pencil on parchment.
Site Name: Frontier
Address: 3120 Las Vegas Boulevard South

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Lake, Spud

Robert E. "Spud" Lake was a Las Vegas pioneer and civic developer for whom an elementary school was named. He was born in 1857 in Illinois. He married Mary Ellen Osborn in Missouri in 1885, and they moved to Ontario, Canada, before eventually settling in Las Vegas, Nevada in 1904. He started a barbershop for railroad workers and other settlers in the area. Lake participated in the land auction for the Las Vegas town site and purchased two parcels. The first school was built on one of his parcels; and he served as the first president of the school board, and later as a trustee.

Person

Water filtration system at Crescent Dunes Solar, near Tonopah, Nevada: digital photograph

Date

2014-06-24

Archival Collection

Description

Photographer's note: "Water filtration system, on site photo, Crescent Dunes Solar, near Tonopah, Nevada, USA."
Photographer's assigned keywords: "110 megawatts; CSP; Concentrated Solar Energy; Concentrated Solar Power; Crescent Dunes; NV; Nevada; Solar Reserve; SolarReserve; Tonopah; concentrated solar thermal; green energy; ground-based photo; molten salt; on-site; renewable energy; storage; tower."

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