Built 1890 Designated NHL May 23, 1963 Area 8,094 m² | NRHP Reference # 66000459 Opened 1890 Added to NRHP 15 October 1966 | |
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Architectural styles Shingle style architecture, American Queen Anne style People also search for Hawkins House, Pearl Upson House | ||
The Francis G. Newlands Home, also known as Senator Francis G. Newlands House, in Reno, Nevada, United States, is the former mansion of United States Senator Francis G. Newlands. It is one of eight National Historic Landmark-designated historic sites in the state of Nevada. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1963 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.
History
The house was built in 1890 in the newly popular Shingle style of Queen Anne Victorian architecture. Queen Anne characteristics of the house include its "random horizontal plan with wings, bays and porches, and the steep gable roof." A front wing and an arbor were added sometime before 1908.
The house was the first mansion built on a bluff overlooking the Truckee River in Reno, which became known as Newlands Heights. Diverse architectural styles are represented in the area, as exemplified also by the colonial revival Hawkins House next door, another mansion listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The house was purchased by divorce lawyer George Thatcher in 1920. His client Barbara Hutton, heiress of the F.W. Woolworth Company, stayed in the house in 1935, as did other Thatcher clients from time to time.
The house is privately owned and not open to the public.