UNR’s Manzanita Hall won’t open for students

About 100 students expecting to move into the University of Nevada, Reno’s Manzanita Hall will find out that they will have a different address.

UNR will announce that the historic dorm, opened in 1896, is not going to house students for the fall 2015 semester.

UNR officials said the decision comes from Nevada Public Works.

Manzanita Hall and Lincoln Hall, two of UNR’s oldest buildings, were once on a tear-down list but it was decided the buildings would be retrofitted to withstand earthquakes and at some point turned into offices, instead of dorm rooms.

But UNR had planned to keep Manzanita Hall open as a dorm this school year. The Victorian atmosphere dorm has single and double rooms and views of Manzanita Lake.

UNR will reopen White Pine Hall for the fall semester. White Pine Hall was scheduled to be torn down in the next few months for construction of a new residence hall. The new hall was expected to open in 2017 and house 430 students.

White Pine Hall has room for about 150 students.

UNR said furniture was moved out in anticipation of it being torn down but officials are working to get it up and ready for students. About 400 students started moving on to campus residence halls on Sunday.