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Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1936/12/00 Union Pacific Railroad Owner Sun Valley Lodge opens
1936/12/00 Gilbert Stanley Underwood Architect Sun Valley Lodge opens
1937/00/00 Gilbert Stanley Underwood and Co Architect Gilbert Stanley Underwood and Co develop Sun Valley, 1936-1937.
1939/12/00 Ernest Hemingway Author Hemingway works on his book "For Whom the Bell Tolls" at the Sun Valley Lodge in Sun Valley, Idaho. For Whom the Bell Tolls
1945/00/00 Jack Hemingway Groom Mourning widow, Byra Louise Whittlesey, meets a handsome bellhop named Jack Hemingway at the Sun Valley Lodge. Marriage of Byra L "Puck" Whittlesey and Jack Hemingway
1964/11/15 Union Pacific sells the Sun Valley Resort
2015/06/00 Updated and remolded Sun Valley Lodge opens with a new 20,000 square foot full service spa and salon

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Particulars for Sun Valley Lodge:
Area of Significance Architecture
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Area of Significance Entertainment - Recreation
Historic Use Health care resort
Sight Category Historic District
Criteria Historic Event
Historic Use Hotel
Architectural Style Late 19th and early 20th century american movements
Level of Significance National
Criteria Person
Owner Private
Service Spa
Architectural Style Swiss Chalet Revival



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration: 11th January 1989

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name: Sun Valley Historic District
Registry Address: ID 75
Registry Number: 88003122
Resource Type: District
Owner: Private
Architect: Underwood,Gilbert Stanley, and Co.; et al.
Architectural Style: Late 19th and early 20th century american movements, Other
Attribute: RusticChalet
Contributing Buildings: 7
Non-Contributing Buildings: 8
Contributing Structures: 1
Other Certification: Date received-pending owner objection
Certification: Determined eligible-owner objection
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: National; State
Area of Significance: Entertainment-recreation, Architecture
Applicable Criteria: Event, Architecture-Engineering, Person
Criteria Consideration: Significance of less than fifty years
Significant Year: 1936, 1937, 1938
Associated People: Harriman,Averell W.
Historic Function: Domestic, Health care, Recreation and Culture
Historic Sub-Function: Hotel, Resort
Current Function: Recreation and Culture, Domestic, Health care
Current Sub-Function: Hotel Resort

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Lodging
Lodging category Casual Lodging
Lodging Attribute Grand Hotel
Lodging Style Hotel
Lodging type Resort

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