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Hutchings began his the first tourist hotel in Yosemite Valley in the 1860s; he operated the building until being evicted in 1875. He protested eviction all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which held that the government had the power to designate public lands for national parks. Hutchings also hired a young, Scottish-born man, John Muir, to build a sawmill for his hotel c. 1869. Muir went on to become an authoritative naturalist and tireless lobbyist for the U.S. National Park System.

Hutchings had this gable-roofed, wood-frame, two-story building serving as a hotel and built at least 4 other buildings on the Yosemite property. After 1869, he built a sawmill, two guest cottages and a cottage for his workers.

PCAD id: 14502