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The Downtown Reno Library is the main library of the
Washoe County Library System Washoe County Library System is the public library system of Washoe County, Nevada. In 2002 it had a bond for new branches and extensive renovations and in a span of several months library usage increased by 17%. The library system did financially ...
, at 301 S. Center St. in Reno, Nevada. It occupies a historic
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-style building listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Washoe County Library. It is known also as the Downtown Library. It was designed by Hewitt Campau Wells in
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style and was built in 1965. The building received the national Industrial Landscape Award in 1968 for its interior use of plants, shrubs, and trees as an integral part of its design. The award, presented by Lady Bird Johnson in Washington, D.C., was given specifically to architect Hewitt Wells, to landscape architect Mitchell Serven, and to Purdy and Fitzpatrick Nursery. Although the building was less than 50 years old, the usual requirement, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. It has a fallout shelter which in 2015 was one of the few remaining ones in Reno. In 2014
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gave the library the award "coolest internal space", giving the library $500.


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Washoe County Library-Sparks Branch The Washoe County Library-Sparks Branch, at a prominent corner location at 814 Victorian St. in Sparks, Nevada, is a historic building that was designed by Nevada architect Frederick J. DeLongchamps and was built in 1931. Also known as Sparks Jus ...
(former building), also NRHP-listed


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Public libraries in Nevada Buildings and structures in Reno, Nevada Library buildings completed in 1965 Libraries on the National Register of Historic Places in Nevada National Register of Historic Places in Reno, Nevada 1965 establishments in Nevada History of Reno, Nevada 1960s architecture in the United States Modernist architecture in Nevada {{Nevada-NRHP-stub