Ehrman Mansion Sugar Pine Point State Park
by LeeAnn McLaneGoetz McLaneGoetzStudioLLCcom
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Ehrman Mansion Sugar Pine Point State Park
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LeeAnn McLaneGoetz McLaneGoetzStudioLLCcom
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Photograph - Photography
Description
Ehrman Mansion, Sugar Pine Point State Park
on Lake Tahoe's West Shore at Tahoma
Sugar Pine Point names a forested promontory perched above the western shore of Lake Tahoe, as well as a state park that offers ten terrific miles of trail.
Sugar pines are, alas, a bit scarce these days. In the 1870s, there was lots of logging in this part of the Tahoe Basin in order to supply Comstock Lode miners with lumber and firewood.
One of Lake Tahoe�s first permanent residents was �General� William Phipps, who homesteaded the land we now call Sugar Pine Point in 1860. Phipps protected his 160 acres from being logged.
Turn-of-the-century banker Isaias Hellman built �the finest High Sierra summer house in California� a rustic, yet elegant three-story mansion overlooking the lake. Now known as the Ehrman Mansion (for a later owner) the house is open for guided tours during the summer months.
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November 3rd, 2011
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