Three Historic Nevada Cities: Carson City, Reno, Virginia City
was produced by the National Park Service's National Register of Historic
Places and the Nevada State Historic Preservation Office, in partnership
with the Historic Reno Preservation Society, Reno Historical Resources
Commission, City of Reno, Comstock Historic District Commission, Carson City Planning and Community Development, Carson City Historic Review Commission and
National Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers (NCSHPO).
It was created under the direction of Carol D. Shull, Keeper of the
National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service, Patrick
Andrus, Heritage Tourism Manager, and Beth L. Savage, Publications Managing
Editor. Three Historic Nevada Cities is based on information
in the files of the National Register of Historic Places and National
Historic Landmarks collections. These materials are kept at 1201 Eye
St., NW, Washington, D.C., and are open to the public from 9:00am to
12:00pm, Monday through Thursday.
Terri McBride, Historic Preservation Specialist with the Nevada State
Historic Preservation Office, worked with many local partners to conceptualize
and compile materials for the itinerary. National Register web production
team members included Jeff Joeckel, who designed the itinerary, Rustin
Quaide, and Shannon Bell (all of NCSHPO). Maps were designed by Rustin
Quaide. Property descriptions were written by the local partners and
edited by Terri McBride and Shannon Bell. Essays were written by Terri
McBride (Carson City); Mella Rothwell Harmon, Historic Preservation
Specialist, Nevada State Historic Preservation Office (Reno);
and Ronald M. James, Nevada State Historic Preservation Officer (Virginia
City). Special thanks to the following for their photographic contributions:
Charles Miller; Mella Rothwell Harmon; Rebecca Ossa; Jim Ferris; Joe
Curtis, Mark Twain Books in Virginia City; Bob Blesee and Jim Bantin
with the Special Collections Department of the Library of the University
of Nevada, Reno; Joy Fisher, Penny Postcards from Nevada; and the Nevada
State Archives.
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