Is midcentury modern Las Vegas “the next Palm Springs”? I think it may be! I had a fantastic time last year speaking at, then completely touring, the Nevada Preservation Foundation’s weekend event spotlighting the wonderful midcentury architecture of Las Vegas. I won’t be there this year, alas, I have too many balls in the air. But I am sad — because preservation genius Heidi Swank has really dialed up the event this year — it looks fantastic! If you’re near Las Vegas — or can zip in to make a weekend of it — this a hot ticket. For more information, see their website >> Las Vegas Home and History Weekend 2017.
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Melissa P says
For those going do not miss the Golden Steer event. I had my wedding dinner there and it was fabulous! Made for a perfect end to my midcentury style Vegas wedding wedding 🙂
Carolyn says
Sounds like an uploader in our future with all these people’s plans for home tours.
Mary Elizabeth says
Uh-oh! Just realized that there is a new HGTV show “Flipping Las Vegas.” I haven’t seen it yet, but please tell me they aren’t smashing up pink bathrooms.
Hi to Heidi, an ingenious and generous retro-renovator! Good luck with your Nevada Preservation Foundation event.
celebutante says
They take blah beige 90s Tuscan specials in hokey neighborhoods and install tacky Home Depot “upgrades.” The vast majority of 60s Vegas houses remain untouched; by and large, they’re not considered classic, vintage, or awesome, most people here just think they’re old, crummy houses. (qualifier – I’m a Vegas local with 1963 mid-century)
Mary Elizabeth says
Well, here’s hoping events like the Home and History Weekend are going to change folks’ minds about the 1960 homes.
Robin, WA says
Looks very cool! Makes me wish I still lived in Nevada. Vegas (and Nevada in general) needs to wake up and realize the gold mine they have in mid century architecture.
On a related note, I will be going on a tour of Richland, Washington’s “alphabet houses” in a couple of weeks. They are part of the housing built for the people who worked at the Hanford site during WWII. The government built the workers an entire neighborhood with a multitude of house plans – each named for a letter of the alphabet. The tour should be cool. We get to ride on a 1940s-era city bus too!
linda h says
Wish I could get to Vegas ,though. Last year’s Home and History Weekend there sounded great and this one does look even better. But first I want to go to Palm Springs.
linda h says
Time also for the White Rock Home Tour here in the Dallas area with about six homes on the tour this weekend, the 22nd and 23rd.
linda h says
A couple of the homes in Dallas are new, but modern, but most are 1961 or earlier, with one of them as old as 1937.
Debbie in Portland says
Everything about this sounds amazing! Too late to make plans for this year, but you’ve got me thinking about NEXT year.
Maybe this could be a Retro Renovators Field Trip? Vegas in 2018, anyone? 😉
Joe Felice says
I’m still waiting for the RR convention at that mid-century motel in Orlando.