The Downtown Reno Library is the main library of the Washoe County Library System, at 301 S. Center St. in

Reno, Nevada Reno ( ) is a city in the northwest section of the U.S. state of Nevada, along the Nevada-California border, about north from Lake Tahoe, known as "The Biggest Little City in the World". Known for its casino and tourism industry, Reno is the ...

. It occupies a historic

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-style building listed on the

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as the Washoe County Library. It is known also as the Downtown Library. It was designed by Hewitt Campau Wells in

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

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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

in 2013. It has a

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which in 2015 was one of the few remaining ones in Reno. In 2014 Cengage Learning gave the library the award "coolest internal space", giving the library $500.

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Downtown Reno Library
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

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