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The development of the hotel was financed by Laurance S. Rockefeller and it was designed by Edward Charles Bassett for the firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. It opened in 1965. Original plans were to use architect John Carl Warnecke and build a series of small cottages, but those plans were abandoned.
Nevada's pre-eminent architect and former mining engineer Frederic DeLongchamps designed the 1927 version of the Riverside Hotel for George Wingfield. At six stories high, the Riverside was Reno's tallest building at the time of its construction.