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Asset ID:

e2db14bfe4584d1682894dfe6b91aa67

Title:

Big Tree room.

AltText:

Big Tree room.

Description:

Big Tree Room, Cedar Cottage, 1886. The Upper Hotel began construction in 1857 and was completed in 1859. Its frame later became the Cedar Cottage. James Hutchings began ownership of the Upper Hotel, which then became known as the Hutchings House, in 1864. This was just months before Yosemite Valley was granted to the state by the Yosemite Grant. There was a joke in the hotel to not leave your door unlocked. When the visitor went to their room, they realized their door was a sheet and the "wall" separating one room from the next was cheesecloth. In order to get lumber for the hotel, Hutchings built a sawmill. Hutchings hired a man named John Muir to work in this sawmill. An addition was constructed at the rear of the hotel, which enclosed the trunk of a large growing cedar tree. This sitting room with a fire place became known as the "Big Tree Room." This is what led the Hutchings House to be called the Cedar Cottage. In 1874, the state legislature had $60,000 to take away all private claims in Yosemite Valle

Image Details:

Negative Number: RL_14442

Publisher:

U. S. National Park Service

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Constraints Information:

Public domain

Keywords:

history , hotels , hutchings hotel

Controlled Keywords:

006.003-09, (Yosemite Hierarchy Number)
, Structures-Hotels, (Yosemite Series Description)

Resource Type:

Image

NPS Units:

Yosemite National Park, Code: YOSE

Locations:

Yosemite National Park, California
Latitude: 37.8399200439453, Longitude: -119.540397644043

Related Collections:

1031 Yosemite Historic Photo Collection

Create Date:

c. 1886

Content Dates:

01/01/1886 - 12/30/1886

Source Information Description:

Film Size: 5 x 7

Source Location:

YOSE: Box 11

Photographer:

George Fiske

Contacts:

Person: Archivist
Organization: US National Park Service
Address: Yosemite National Park Archives, PO Box 700-W, El Portal, CA 95318
Email: yose_archives@nps.gov

Time Submitted:

Wednesday, November 28, 2018 12:53:30 PM

Last Edited:

Wednesday, November 28, 2018 12:53:30 PM

Original File Name:

RL_14442.tif

Resource Format:

tif

File Size (bytes):

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Series Description:

1031 Yosemite Historic Photo Collection

Extended Description:

1031 Yosemite Historic Photo Collection

Contribution:

The digitizing of the historic photo collection was made possible through a grant from the Yosemite Conservancy

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Categories:

Museum

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copied by Mike Floyd, copied July 1985

Big Tree Room of Cedar Cottage.

Big Tree Home of Cedar Cottage showing arches.

Trinkets found under Cedar Cottage upon removal.

Close up of porch detail of old Cedar Cottage.

Tearing down old Cedar Cottage.

Fireplace in Big Tree room of Old Cedar Cottage.

Cedar Cottage.

Articles found under Cedar Cottage.

Old Cedar Cottage.

Trinkets found under Cedar Cottage.

Steps at Cedar Cottage. Guest fell down these steps.

Cedar Cottage stairs.

Rear of old Cedar Cottage.

Tearing down Big Tree room of Cedar Cottage.

Tearing down Cedar Cottage.

Rear view of Cedar Cottage during demolition.

Cedar Cottage from rear showing Yosemite Falls.

Cedar Cottage with barricade because of condition.

Site of Cedar Cottage.

Site of Old Cedar Cottage after removal.

From Watkin's stereo #1087

Cedar Cottage showing chimney of Big Tree room.

(From an old photo) Big Tree room in Hutching's Hotel. Copy from an old photo

Upper House later conveted to Cedar Cottage. Photocopied by Cather from early photo made in Yosemite by C.L. Weed in 1859. See also RL-12,570 & 13,713. copied by Cather, copied May 22, 1941

1. Upper Hotel called Hutching's Hotel. 2. Leidig's Hotel 3. Woolen Mill at Merced Falls. According to Bill Stevenson, the dam was built to operate the woolen mill, which his grandfather John J. Jordan ran. Both this grandfathers - Jordan and Stevenson -

Stereo from collection of the Eastman House. copied by Ralph H. Anderson, copied November 17, 1950

(Cedar Cottage) See also RL-05,115 & 13,604. copied from old photo. Date: Unknown, after porch was added

Copied from Hutching's "In the Heart of the Sierras" p. 102. sketch from first photo made in Yosemite.

1/2 stereo, Watkins 1088

Condemned Hotel showing Big Tree Room. Photographer: Ralph H. Anderson (?), Date: 1941 (?)

(Cedar Cottage) See also RL-02,737 & 13,604

Cedar Cottage & old Sentinel Bridge.

From Stereo #1087.

See also RL-01,599.

Showing fire escape ladder.

Copied from Wegner photo album.

Detail of stereo (RL-16,413). Caption: "165. Hutching's Hotel". Merced River in foreground.

Detail of L. Smaus stereo (RL-16,421). Caption: "59. Yosemite Hotel." Hutching's.

Detail of stereo (RL-16,423) from L. Smaus collection. Captioned: "7334 - Sentinel Rock, 3,720 ft. high. View from Hutching's Hotel and Merced River." copied by Michael Dixon, copied July 1985

Detail of RL-16,427. Caption: "No. 265. Hutching's Cottage, Yosemite Valley, Cal." Hutching's House and River Cottage.copied by Michael Dixon, copied July 1985

Detail from L. Smaus stereo (RL-16,437). Caption: "1260. Hutching's Hotel." copied by Michael Dixon, copied July 1985,

Hutchings' Hotel Cottage

Detail of RL-16,484. Caption: "9469 - The Cedar Tree Sitting Room, Sentinel Hotel, Yosemite Valley, Cal., U.S.A." Text on back of the original card (see RL-16,484). copied by Michael Dixon, copied July 1985

Detail of RL-16,486. Caption: "48 - Rock Cottage, Yosemite" is erroneous; actually is Cedar Cottage. copied by Michael Dixon, copied July 1985

Detail of L. Smaus stereo (RL-16,504). Handwritten on back: "The Big Tree Room. First hotel in the Yosemite Valley, Cal. House built around a tree." Man in photo is George Fiske. copied by Michael Dixon, copied July 1985

Detail fo L. Smaus stereo (RL-16,550). Caption: "1259. Sentinel Rock, (3,270 feet high) and Hutchings' Hotel." copied by Michael Dixon, copied July 1985

Detail of L. Smaus stereo (RL-16,520). Caption: "109. Hutchin's Hotel and the Merced River." copied by Michael Dixon, copied July 1985

Detail of L. Smaus stereo (RL-16,522), captioned "The Upper House, Yosemite Valley, Mariposa County, Cal. 1088." Hutching's Hotel. copied by Michael Dixon, copied July 1985

Detail of L. Smaus stereo (RL-16,524). Caption: "Sentinel Rock, 3,276 feet high, Yosemite Valley, Cal." Hutching's Hotel. copied by Michael Dixon, copied July 1985

Detail of stereo from L. Smaus collection (RL-16,527). Captioned "62. View on the Merced, Hutchings' Hotel and Bridge. Sentinel Rock in distance." copied by Michael Dixon, copied July 1985

Detail from L. Smaus stereo (RL-16,528). Caption: "61. View on the Merced. Hutchings' Hotel and Bridge. Sentinel Rock in the distance." copied by Michael Dixon, copied July 1985

Detail of L. Smaus stereo (RL-16,530). Captioned: "600. Sentinel Rock. Hutchins' Hotel." copied by Michael Dixon, copied July 1985

Detail from L. Smaus stereo (RL-16,532). Captioned: "Hutching's Hotel, Yosemite Valley, Cal." copied by Michael Dixon, copied July 1985

Detail of stereo car RL-16,534 from L. Smaus collection. Caption: "No. 35. Sentinel Rock, 3,270 feet high, and Hutchings' Hotel." copied July 1985

Detail of stereo card RL-16-536 from L. Smaus collection. Caption: "No. 965, Sentinel Rock, Yosemite, Cal." copied by Michael Dixon, copied July 1985

Detail of L. Smaus stereo (RL-16,546). Caption: "SENTINEL ROCK, 3,270 feet high". Hutchings' Hotel. copied July 1985

Detail of L. Samus Stereo (RL-16,548). Caption: "1621. Sentinel Rock, 3,270 feet high, Hutchings' Hotel, and the Merced River." copied by Michael Dixon, copied July 1985

Detail of L. Smaus stereo (RL-16,552). Written on back of card: "Yosemite Valley. the Sentinel and Hutchings Hotel. June, 1870. On horse. H.C.T." copied by Michael Dixon, copied July 1985

Detail of L. Smaus stereo (RL-16,554). Caption: "No. 1072. Hutchings' Hotel and Sentinel Rock - Yosemite Valley." copied by Michael Dixon, copied July 1985

Detail of L. Smaus Stereo. Caption: "No. 267. Hutchings' Hotel, yosemite, Cal." copied by Michael Dixon, copied July 1985

Detail of L. Smaus stereo card. Interior view of Cedar Cottage. copied by Michael Dixon, copied July 1985

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