A subsequent owner, Harry Gosse, converted the small frame building into a brick hotel, retaining the name Riverside. After Lake's death, his daughter and son-in-law operated the hotel and renamed it the Riverside. Myron Lake owned the property from 1861 into the 1880s, running consecutive hotel businesses under the name Lake's House. Fuller operated a log building on this location that provided food and shelter to gold-seekers who were passing through the area in the reverse gold rush called the 'Rush to Washoe' (meaning people were heading east from instead of west to California), spurred by the gold, and later silver, strikes of the Comstock Lode. The building now houses apartments and studios for artists and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.Ĭ. Riverside Hotel is a former hotel and casino located in Downtown Reno, Nevada, that sits on the exact location where Reno began in 1859.
