Commercial Soap Company, c. 1906
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In 1905, owner H. J. Crampton relocated his soap business from the Comstock area to Reno, a better site for manufacturing and distribution. Peerless Cleaners would be constructed here exactly 40 years later.
Image courtesy of the Nevada Historical Society
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Peerless Cleaners
There’s something soapy at the intersection of St. Lawrence Avenue and Forest Street. Two businesses, separated in time but linked by a passion for keeping things clean, have perched on this little hilltop since 1905, when it was still the outskirts…