Summit Soda Springs

  • Also Known As: Old Soda Springs

  • Address: East End Soda Springs Rd
  • Vicinity: 36 mi drive SE of Soda Springs in Placer County
  • Travel Genus: Sight
  • Sight Category: Historic District


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Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1871/08/00 Central Pacific Railroad Owner Captivated by its beauty and sparkling mineral waters, Mark Hopkins becomes trustee of the 80 acre Summit Soda Springs area which is owned by the Central Pacific Railroad.
1872/00/00 Mary Hopkins Searles Hostess William Jones leases Soda Springs from the Central Pacific Railroad and builds a three-story hotel (lost) to accommodate friends of Mary Hopkins and other visitors. The Soda Springs Hotel burned in 1898.
1873/00/00 Mark Hopkins Home A simple rectangular log cabin with steeply pitched roof is built for Mark Hopkins.
1898/00/00 A stone chalet is built for Timothy Hopkins, a son by adoption and the manager of all of Mary Hopkins's properties.
1911/07/00 Timothy Hopkins sells Summit Soda Springs to Josiah Stanford, a nephew of Leland Stanford, Jr.
1929/05/15 Alien L Chickering, for many years president of the California Historical Society, acquires Summit Soda Springs.

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Particulars for Summit Soda Springs:
Area of Significance Architecture
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Historic Use Health care resort
Sight Category Historic District
Criteria Historic Event
Building Type House
Building Material Log Architecture
Criteria Person
Owner Private
Architectural Style Richardsonian Romanesque
Historic Use Single dwelling
Area of Significance Social History



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration: 15th December 1978

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name: Summit Soda Springs
Registry Address: SE of Soda Springs
Registry Number: 78000734
Resource Type: District
Owner: Private
Architect: Multiple
Architectural Style: Other
Attribute: Richardsonianlog house
Area in Acres: 15
Contributing Buildings: 8
Non-Contributing Buildings: 1
Contributing Sites: 1
Contributing Structures: 1
Contributing Objects: 1
Certification: Listed in the National Register
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: State
Area of Significance: Architecture, Social history
Applicable Criteria: Event, Architecture-Engineering, Person
Period of Significance: 1875-1899, 1850-1874
Significant Year: 1872, 1898
Associated People: Hopkins,Mark
Historic Function: Health care
Historic Sub-Function: Single dwelling, Resort
Current Function: Domestic
Current Sub-Function: Single dwelling

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