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Saving Bowers Mansion

“Ladies, let us buy it!” “It” was the popular Bowers Mansion, a gem of northern Nevada’s mining legacy in Washoe Valley, which was put up for sale by its 82-year-old owner in January 1946. The “ladies” were the members of the Reno Women’s Civic Club spurred on by their leaders, Ethel Parker and Dorothy Allen, […]

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