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Commission directs staff to pursue local motel historic district covering eight properties
Summary
After an intensive survey, staff recommended the Flamingo Inn as National Register‑eligible and five motels plus three signs as locally eligible; the commission asked staff to prepare a local historic district nomination for eight properties (excluding the Best Western Hoover Dam Hotel) and to notify owners for a public hearing.
Broadbent’s Courtney Mooney presented the results of an intensive‑level architectural survey of nine motel properties along Nevada Way and their associated signage. Mooney said the period of significance runs from 1932 (oldest surviving motel) through 1957, and that the survey evaluated each property for National Register criteria and local code criteria.
Mooney recommended the Flamingo Inn (804 Nevada Way) as individually eligible for the National Register under criteria A (association with automobile…
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