{"nrhp_refnum":"87000495","name":"Pope Estate","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"NW of US 50 and CA 89 jct. on N side of CA 89","address_restricted":false,"city":"South Lake Tahoe","county":"El Dorado County","state":"CA","lat":38.937315245000065,"lon":-120.0446105053893,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-04-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Economics","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A lakeside estate complex on the shore of Lake Tahoe near South Lake Tahoe, California, with about 20 structures on 32.52 acres. The Main House was built in 1884 by George Tallant, and the other buildings date from roughly 1900 through the 1920s.","why_significant":"The estate is significant for its architecture and for its history. The Main House is an early shingle-style lakeside house with notable interiors, and it set the style for the surrounding buildings. The complex is described as the oldest and most intact in the area, showing a vanished lifestyle of wealthy California banking families, including the Tallant, Tevis and Pope families.","narrative":"Set on the shore of Lake Tahoe, this estate is a group of about twenty buildings on roughly 32 acres. The centerpiece is a shingle-covered Main House built in 1884 by banker's son George Tallant, with a gambrel roof, bark-covered log porch columns, leaded-glass windows and finely finished paneled interiors. Around it stand a kitchen and dining building, guest and help cabins, a boathouse, barn, gazebo, caretaker's house and other outbuildings. Shingles, gabled roofs and diamond-paned windows give the complex a consistent English cottage character. The estate passed from Tallant to the Tevis family in 1899 and to George Pope in 1923, all prominent in California banking and finance. It was judged significant as an unusually complete picture of an early wealthy lakeside lifestyle, and as the oldest and most intact estate complex in the area. The Main House is among the oldest remaining estate houses there.","period_of_significance":"1884-1920's","architect_builder":"Unknown (Main House built by George Tallant in 1884; architect unconfirmed, Ernest Coxhead suggested as a possible designer)","architectural_style":"Shingle style with American and Dutch Colonial Revival influences and English cottage references","criteria":[],"status_note":"Form lists the property as unoccupied, in fair to good condition with some deterioration and alterations. A 1979 windstorm destroyed the east sleeping porch of the Main House, and the gazebo is in disrepair.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:27.949346-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/87000495.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87000495/864438e247-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87000495/864438e247-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Mistshine","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lakeside_View_of_the_Pope_Estate.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Mistshine</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lakeside_View_of_the_Pope_Estate.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123858621","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Estate","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16967424"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/el-dorado-county/pope-estate-87000495/"}