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Lovelock Inn-Lovelock,NV asking price $548,000

The property is very well located in the city of Lovelock, Nevada. Cornell is the primary business street for Lovelock. There are 37 motel rooms plus a large lobby with a wood burning fireplace and registration area and an Owner’s quarters that is a separate modular home. The property also includes a parking area that is large enough for commercial tractor trailer trucks. The 37 unit Inn was completed in the spring of 1949. The 16,000 sq. ft. ranch—style building is surrounded by a six‐foot porch. The property was designed by Paul Williams, the “designer for the stars”. How did it happen that Paul Williams designed the Lovelock Inn? The property was originally built by a member of the E. L. Cord family. The Cord Corporation founded by E. L. Cord (1894‐1974) founded a company that produced the Cord Automobile along with the Auburn and Duesenberg Automobiles in Indiana. Paul Revere Williams (1894‐1980) was a celebrated architect and an African American ‐‐ a combination that few of his contemporaries imagined possible. In 1939 Williams won an AIA Award of Merit for his design of the elegant MCA building in Beverly Hills (later the headquarters of Litton Industries). He also designed the interiors of the original Saks Fifth Avenue building in Beverly Hills, then the exteriors and interiors of two Saks additions. Over time, his firm designed public schools, banks, auto dealerships, the Arrowhead Springs Hotel (in association with Gordon Kaufmann), the W.&J. Sloane department store, the Palm Springs Tennis Club and the Golden State Mutual Life Insurance building. His firm also re-designed the public rooms and bungalows of the Ambassador Hotel and the famed Polo Lounge of the Beverly Hills Hotel. Celebrity clients came to include Frank Sinatra, Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Julie London, and Anthony Quinn.