Maps of/to Glen Alpine Springs

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Photo Top Left - The Maybeck-Designed Dining Hall.
Photo Top Right - The Maybeck-Designed Kitchen.

Photo Bottom Left - the Maybeck-Designed Social and/or Assembly Hall
Currently used for Meetings and Interpretive Center

Photo Bottom Right - The Maybeck-Designed Bubblestone Cabin.

Nine Buildings Still Stand
at Glen Alpine Springs Today!
The first buildings were constructed in the 1870s by Nathan Gilmore to house his family. By 1884 Glen Alpine was one of the first resorts in the Tahoe Basin. The new summer resort became famous for it's "curative" mineral spring water which was bottled at the spring and shipped out at the Tallac Wharf on Lake Tahoe. Expansion in the 1880s and 90s brought a 2-story, 16-room hotel, dining room, kitchen, office, barn, outbuildings, ice house, water pumps and tanks and by 1905, it's own Post Office. Guests stayed in the hotel or in tent cabins. It's estimated there were over 50 tent cabins and as many as 25 permanent buildings at one time.

A fire in 1921 destroyed the dining room and kitchen and the new owner E.G. Galt hired Bernard Maybeck to design fireproof buildings. The first Maybeck buildings completed were the Assembly Hall, the Kitchen and Dining Hall with plans for cabins and many other buildings including a gate house, dance pavilion, communications center and showers. A one-of-a-kind experimental Bubblestone Cabinwas constructed in 1922 using new and innovative aerated concrete building materials patented by Richard A. Rice. The four Maybeck buildings designed and built in 1922 still stand today -- a tribute to Galt's foresight and Maybeck's design and excellent use of native and fireproof materials.

The hotel burned down in the 1940s. The original Gilmore home converted to a 2-story, 8-room hotel early in the century finally collapsed in the late 1960s. By the time of the purchase in 1977 the buildings and grounds had suffered benign neglect. Many buildings had collapsed, destroyed or vandalized and what remained was fairly run down and unusable. Slowly since then with only a few volunteers and minimum donations have the remaining 9 buildings been maintained by The Historical Preservation of Glen Alpine Springs.

Buildings
and
Facilities

Glen Alpine Springs
1873-
Today

EXISTING BUILDINGS (Indicated in Red)	EXISTING MAYBECK - DESIGNED BUILDINGS (Indicated in Gold)	BUILDINGS OR CABINS No Longer Existing (Indicated in Green)
BARN, built 1990 CARETAKERS CABIN Docent Summer Residence LARGE GUEST CABIN Maybeck-Design Influenced SMALL GUEST CABIN Maybeck-Design Influenced PAGODA OVER THE SPRING Original 1890s, rebuilt 1990s	ASSEMBLY HALL aka SOCIAL HALL Built 1921. Used as Interpretive Center. Across from the Spring DINING HALL Built 1922 KITCHEN Built 1922 BUBBLESTONE CABIN Built 1922	HOTEL 2-story, 16 rooms Built 1884, burned 1940s CLIFF HOUSE 2-story, 8-room hotel Original Gilmore home Built 1870s, now flat DINING ROOM Built approx.1890s, burned 1921 POST OFFICE STORAGE BUILDINGS TENT CABINS, OUT BUILDINGS GUEST CABINS

HOW TO FIND GLEN ALPINE SPRINGS Glen Alpine Springs is located off Hwy.89 Southwest of the city of South Lake Tahoe in the Lake Tahoe Basin and further in the mountains below Fallen Leaf Lake. The roads into Fallen Leaf Lake are very narrow one lane roads and are not snow plowed in winter. At Lily Lake the road ends in a parking area provided by the U.S. Forest Service. From there, it's a gradual climb by foot on a rough rocky roadway to the Desolation Wilderness Trail. Glen Alpine Springs is accessible only by foot. No cars or trucks are allowed beyond Lily Lake.
DIRECTIONS FROM LAKE TAHOE	DIRECTIONS FROM FALLEN LEAF LAKE
For a larger map of the South Lake Tahoe area, select here or select the map above.	For a larger map of the Fallen Leaf Lake area, select here or select the map above.

LOCAL
ELEVATIONS
Pyramid Peak

10,020 feet
Tallac Mountain

9,735 feet
Glen Alpine Springs

6,800 feet
Fallen Leaf Lake

6,400 feet
Lake Tahoe

6,229 feet

COOL WATER & CLEAR MOUNTAIN AIR
Cold mountain water flows from melted snows and springs in the Desolation
Wilderness area into Glen Alpine Creek. That Creek cascades over Modjeska Falls
on it's path to Lily Lake then rushes down to Big Falls and finally into Fallen Leaf Lake.
That same clear, cold water flows from Fallen Leaf Lake via Taylor Creek into Lake Tahoe.

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:

The Historical Preservation of Glen Alpine Springs, Inc.
PO Box 694 -- Glen Ellen, CA 95442

VOICE

(707) 996-6354 --

FAX

(707) 935-6320

E-MAIL

GASprings@vom.com

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Prepared for The Historical Preservation of Glen Alpine Springs by James K.Thompson
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