Forest Service land and are being revived for luncheons and nature enthusiasts who hike there among the sneezeweed. The Depression and then another fire during the 1950s on the west side of the lake hastened the demise of the resort, which closed in 1967. It was later rebuilt by Bernard Maybeck with fire-resistant stone, concrete and steel. Nearly 200 houses, spread across 2,500 acres, especially near Meyers, were lost in the Angora Fire, and Boyd spent anxious moments every day it burned scanning her incoming e-mails from the homeowners association for news of her own home.Ĭharred remains of fireplaces along Tahoe Mountain Road are silent memorials to what had remained miraculously intact for decades despite other fires in the vicinity.ĭuring the 1920s, a fire 2 miles west of the lake partially destroyed 19th century Glen Alpine Springs resort, which had first made the area famous. The house passed into the hands of the Clifton daughters, Caroline Drewes (who wrote about the 1920s fire at Fallen Leaf as a cub reporter for the Call Bulletin, and later worked for the San Francisco Examiner), Janet Livermore and Margy Boyd, who is the last living Clifton. The Cliftons rented a cabin at the lake for years until they bought one of the few parcels of land available for sale (the rest of the land along the southwest side of the lake is owned by the state and leased to homeowners) and built their own home. This chapel is where the scions of many San Francisco families who summer at the lake were christened. Francis of the Mountains chapel at Fallen Leaf, a 1920s Nordic-style structure built with wood and some stone remnants of the Stanford chapel salvaged from the rubble of the 1906 earthquake. Horace Clifton was a well-known lawyer, and the Cliftons, both among the founders of the San Francisco Opera, also contributed greatly to the small St. Juniper Ledge, as the house is called, sits on the hill adjacent to the Stanford Sierra Camp, where Stanford faculty and alumni have been camping for nearly a century, and was built for Horace and Olga Clifton's family in 1927.
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This picture-postcard, redwood Alpine-style home - with a peaked roof and exposed trusses, walls with no insulation, steel windows that can be shuttered for the winter and a native stone foundation - is a reminder of what some of the houses that were lost in the recent fire looked like. The fire raged dangerously close for several days but stopped just short of the east ridge that overlooks the small lake, saving the hills that sweep down to the summer homes along its edge.Īmong them is a house on the south side of the lake by architect Warren Charles Perry, who was the dean of the School of Architecture at UC Berkeley from 1927 until 1950. The slender, 3-mile-long leaf-shaped glacier lake, where scenes from "The Bodyguard" and "City of Angels" were shot, barely escaped June's Angora Fire - named for the thickly wooded hills just south of Lake Tahoe that were stocked with Angora goats by ambitious pioneers in the 1800s. Margy Boyd Tom Livermore MANDATORY CREDIT FOR PHOTOG AND SF CHRONICLE/NO SALES-MAGS OUT Eric Luse Show More Show Less 8 of21 designspotting 11_619.JPGĬoming from downstairs up to the main room of the home. Master Bedroom photos of different seasons of the chapel the family built. Margy Boyd Tom Livermore Horace and Olga Clifton-plaque MANDATORY CREDIT FOR PHOTOG AND SF CHRONICLE/NO SALES-MAGS OUT Eric Luse Show More Show Less 5 of21 designspotting 11_315.JPG Margy Boyd with her dog Fidel, who is the present owner in the main room of the home. Morning along the water's edge of Fallen Leaf Lake. Margy Boyd Tom Livermore MANDATORY CREDIT FOR PHOTOG AND SF CHRONICLE/NO SALES-MAGS OUT Eric Luse Show More Show Less The 80 year old home was built by the Cliftons who also built the historic chapel. Margy Boyd Tom Livermore MANDATORY CREDIT FOR PHOTOG AND SF CHRONICLE/NO SALES-MAGS OUT Eric Luse Show More Show Less 2 of21 designspotting 11_424.JPG Clifton house in Fallen Leaf Lake, one of the houses that might have succumbed to the Angora fire had the fire jumped the ridge and reached the lake. Present owner is Margy Boyd.Įric Luse / The Chronicle names (cq) from source 1 of21 designspotting 11_325.JPG The main room of the home with the grand fireplace off to the right, front door to the left and the loft above the seating area to the rear.Ĭlifton house in Fallen Leaf Lake, one of the houses that might have succumbed to the Angora fire had the fire jumped the ridge and reached the lake.
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