Debate over preservation of Las Vegas hotel shows difficulties in assessing historic status of recent vernacular buildings
In discussing the push to have the El Cortez added to the National Register of Historic Places on KNPR, executive vice president Alexandra Epstein said that, until recently, she hadn’t known the registry existed.
Though surprising, that makes sense, given our city’s young age and that most structures deemed historic are 50-60 years old—an age not assumed to be notable, much to the exasperation of local preservationists.