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	Drakesbad Guest Ranch
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	Drakesbad, California
Built	1909
Architect	Edward Drake; et al.
Architectural style	No Style Listed
NRHP reference No.	03001062
Added to NRHP	October 22, 2003

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Drakesbad Guest Ranch, also known simply as Drakesbad, is a resort near Chester, California. It is located on Hot Springs Creek at the head of Warner Valley, in Lassen Volcanic National Park.

History

The original ranch was founded in the 1880s by Edward R. Drake (1830-1904). Drake was a trapper and miner who settled down to operate a tavern near Bidwell Bar, California. As mining declined Drake moved to Prattville and resumed trapping in the mountains. Drake settled in the Hot Springs Valley valley at some point in the late 1870s, building a cabin and eventually assembling about 400 acres (160 ha) encompassing a number of thermal features associate with the area's volcanism. Drake kept cattle at the homestead during the summer and moved back to Prattville during the winter. Drake sold "Drake's Hot Springs and Ranch" to Alexander Sifford in 1900.^[2]

Alexander Sifford, a schoolteacher from Susanville, came to the valley in 1900 to drink the mineral waters in hopes of relieving stomach trouble. Sifford stayed for three days and agreed to buy the property from Drake for $6000, giving Drake the right to continue to use the land. The Siffords established a guest ranch on the property,^[2] expanding Drake's bathhouse and guest cabin. By 1912 the Siffords had built a dining room and kitchen and twenty tent platforms.^[3]

The original Drake lodge was destroyed by the weight of winter snows during the winter of 1937-38. The Siffords contacted a local contractor who built a new lodge in ten days, finishing on June 30, 1938, with guests in their beds the same night.^[4]

The Sifford family would manage the ranch and surrounding environs as a popular hunting and vacation resort until selling the 400-acre (1.6 km²) property to the National Park Service during the period of 1954-1958.

The resort is at 5,700 feet (1,700 m) altitude, features kerosene lamps - although the lodge was electrified in the 1990s - and has no room keys.^[5]

Historic designation

The Drakesbad Guest Ranch was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on October 22, 2003.Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page).

References

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
^ ^a ^b Bozeman, Tandy. "Introduction". Drakesbad Guest Ranch - A History In Photographs. National Park Service. Retrieved 1 December 2011.
^ Bozeman, Tandy. "The Lodge: 1900-1930". Drakesbad Guest Ranch - A History In Photographs. National Park Service. Retrieved 1 December 2011.
^ Bozeman, Tandy. "The New Lodge: 1938 - present". National Park Service. Retrieved 1 December 2011.
^ Cite error: The named reference lat_list was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

External links

Official site: Drakesbad Guest Ranch
Drakesbad Guest Ranch Cultural Landscape Report, National Park Service

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.

[drakenps1-2] Bozeman, Tandy. "Introduction". Drakesbad Guest Ranch - A History In Photographs. National Park Service. Retrieved 1 December 2011.

[drakenps2-3] Bozeman, Tandy. "The Lodge: 1900-1930". Drakesbad Guest Ranch - A History In Photographs. National Park Service. Retrieved 1 December 2011.

[drakenps3-4] Bozeman, Tandy. "The New Lodge: 1938 - present". National Park Service. Retrieved 1 December 2011.

[lat_list-5] Cite error: The named reference lat_list was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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