Tree # |
Brochure # |
Location |
Tree Name |
Comments |
| 1 | 2-5 | 595 Arroyo Street, cross street Lander | Giant Sequoia | Technically NOT a state champion tree |
| 2 | 2-6 | 1015 Forest Street, north of Mary | Tuliptree | House formerly owned by the Hunters (she was the former Miss Janet Holcomb); backyard tulip tree also planted in 1950. Cedar tree in back yard planted by Mrs. Hunter; brought from Lake Tahoe in 1950. |
| 3 | 2-1 | Newland Park (California) | Spanish Fir | |
| The Castle (825 California) | Built by Mrs. William Johnston, who also owned the Nixon Mansion. It was designed as a guest house and often accommo-dated the Johnston's children and grandchildren. The French country house is laid out on six levels and was built of heavy native stone by Italian stonemasons. | |||
| 4 | 1-8 | McKinley Park School | Catalpa | unusually tall for its species |
| 5 | 1-9 | McKinley Park School | English Oak | |
| McKinley Park School | Designed by George Ferris in the Spanish/Mission style. It was one of the city's first one-story schools. It is one of the four elementary schools built in Reno around the turn of the century called the "Spanish Quartet". | |||
| The Dow House (935 Jones) | Built in 1907-1908 by Lisle Jamison in the Colonial Revival style with Queen Anne influences. In 1932, it was a popular rooming house for divorce seekers. | |||
| 6 | 1-5 | 26 Winter Street, north of Jones Street | London Planetree/Sycamore | |
| cross Riverside to look up, across river, at the back of the Newlands Mansion | More easily viewed from Riverside Drive. The residence of Francis W. Newlands, U.S. congressman from 1893 to 1903 and U.S. senator from 1903 to 1917, was built in 1889 with the front wing and arbor added before 1908. The house was bought in 1920 by George Thatcher, attorney for George Wingfield. The house has numerous Queen Anne features with wings, bays, porches and a steep gable roof. Because of Newlands' prominence in politics, water and reclamation projects in the West and as the developer of Chevy Chase, Maryland, this property is a National Historic Landmark, the highest designation of national significance. | |||
| 7 | 1-6 | Jones and Washington Street | Little Leaf Linden | |
| Lora J. Knight House (615 Jones St) | Built in 1931 in Colonial Revival style
to accommodate Knight's guests traveling to Vikingsholm, her mansion on Emerald Bay at Lake Tahoe. |
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| 8 | 1-7 | Ralston between First and Riverside | Basswood | State champion tree |