Hawkins House

549 Court St., Reno, Nevada. County/parish: Washoe.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places December 17, 1979. NRIS 79001465.

1 contributing building.

Also known as:

  • Sierra Nevada Museum of Art

From Wikipedia:

Hawkins House (Reno, Nevada)

Hawkins House, later known as Sierra Nevada Museum of Art, is a historic home in Reno, Nevada. It was designed in a colonial revival style by Elmer Grey for Prince A. Hawkins, a scion of the well-established Hawkins family, in 1911. It is now the offices of the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association (NIAA).

It is adjacent to the Francis G. Newlands House, a National Historic Landmark.

From 1978 to 1988, the building housed the Sierra Nevada Museum of Art, now known as the Nevada Museum of Art.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63816771