Levy House
Introduction
Text-to-speech Audio
Images
The Levy House is now the location of the Sundance Books and Music store.
Backstory and Context
Text-to-speech Audio
William Levy was born in Prussia (now Germany) and immigrated to the United States sometime in the mid to late 1800s. He made his way to Nevada and ran a few dry goods stores in mining towns before opening the Palace Dry Goods store in c.1885 here in Reno. He married his wife Tillie Goldsmith and they would eventually have two daughters, Fritzie and Mildred. They bought the property in 1906 and built the home shortly thereafter. William was wealthy enough to own a home in San Francisco and the family back and forth between the two cities. The house remained in the family until 1978, when Mildred passed away. The Nevada Museum of Art owns the house and leases it to the bookstore.
Sources
Boghosian, Paula. "Levy House." National Park Service - National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form. February 24, 1983. https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/NRHP/83001119_text.
Cafferata, Patty. "Levy House." Reno Historical. Special Collections, University of Nevada, Reno Libraries. Accessed August 29, 2019. http://renohistorical.org/items/show/129.
Wikimedia Commons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levy_House_(Reno,_Nevada)#/media/File:LEVY_HOUSE,_RENO_WASHOE_COUNTY.jpg