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| Wawona Hotel and Sherri |
Capture California, the Game-2013
Adventure: 003, Site 008-Wawona
Hotel and Pavilion
National Registry ID: 75000223
Team: YOLT
Date: June 2, 2013
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Address: Wawona
Date Built: 1876
Architect: Washburn Brothers
The necessity to rebuild provided Washburn - who took over the management of the hotel after Washburn, Coffman and Chapman dissolved - and his new partner, Johnny Bruce, the opportunity to construct more substantial and modern hotel facilities. Within a week of the fire, they hired Joseph Shelly, builder of the Long White, and staked out a large two-story building that would include a lobby, sitting room, dining room, office and 25 guest rooms. Although accounts vary, it is believed the new hotel was ready and open for business in the summer of 1879.
Later that year, Big Tree Station welcomed distinguished guest, Ulysses S. Grant. Grant traveled 12 hours from Madera to Wawona by stage, where the Mariposa Brass Band greeted him with Hail To The Chief. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, so much road dust covered the General that he looked as if he had been engaged in the most hotly contested battle of the wilderness.
In 1882, Washburns wife suggested the Indian word, Wah-wo-nah - meaning Big Tree - as a more fitting name for the hotel complex than Big Tree Station. By Sept. 10, 1882, her name was official for the hotel and post-office, though it took a few years before local residents and guests acknowledged the change. (Hotel History)
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