sketch of western-themed hotel

Fabulously Failed Dreams

The unadulterated visions of grand architecture found in UNLV Libraries' Special Collections and Archives.

While the Bonanza Hotel Casino was eventually built in Las Vegas, the final design was not as fantastically themed as this iteration of Homer Rissman's 1950s. His are among the original architectural drawings now housed in UNLV's Special Collections and Archives.

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