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Workers have improved some of the front of the California Apartments at Forest Street and California Avenue. The building, designed in the 1920s in a Classical Revival style, served many people who came to Reno to establish their residences for quick divorces. “The California Apartments drew a high-class clientele from among locals and divorce-seekers,” according to a Mella Harmon essay at <a href=RenoHistorical.org.">

Workers have improved some of the front of the California Apartments at Forest Street and California Avenue. The building, designed in the 1920s in a Classical Revival style, served many people who came to Reno to establish their residences for quick divorces. “The California Apartments drew a high-class clientele from among locals and divorce-seekers,” according to a Mella Harmon essay at RenoHistorical.org.

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