Chapter One
History
Blueprints, letters, the four people behind the 1941 build.
Timeline
Eighty-six years on the ridge
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Dec 15, 1939
Sugar Bowl opens
California's first chairlift spins above Donner Pass.
Jul 1940
Wurster's site visit
First site notes with Jerome Hill.
→ Notes1941
Drawn and built
Fourteen sheets; framed and closed in before the snow.
→ SheetsJan 1942
Payment in full
Wurster's thank-you note closes out the job.
→ LetterDec 1943
House & Garden
An eight-page feature on the finished lodge.
→ FeatureMay 1952
Ten years on
Wurster's 'Letter No. 1' — a decade-later check-in.
→ Letterc. 1970
Schroll family
The lodge passes to the Schrolls for half a century.
2024
Anderson family
A new chapter opens on the ridge.
2025
Restoration
Taken back to the studs and put right, room by room.
14 sheets · 1941
Original Blueprints
Wurster's plans, elevations, and sections drawn at the board.
8 documents · 1940 – 1957
William & Jerome's Letters
Site notes, punch lists, thank-yous — the paper trail.
Four lives
The Company
Hill, Schroll, Disney, Wurster.
8 pages · 1943
House & Garden
The country magazine's feature on the finished lodge.