{"nrhp_refnum":"91000927","name":"Pogue Hotel","other_names":["The Cottonwoods","Montgomery House","Lemon Cove Woman's Clubhous"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"32792 Sierra Dr. (CA 198)","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lemoncove","county":"Tulare County","state":"CA","lat":36.38271991800008,"lon":-119.02456458999995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1991-08-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Agriculture","Exploration/Settlement"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-and-a-half-story, L-shaped redwood-frame hotel and residence built in 1879 at 32792 Sierra Drive (State Highway 198) in Lemoncove, Tulare County, California, with a small pumphouse on a .25 acre parcel. It was built by a ranching company and James W.C. Pogue, and later became a woman's clubhouse.","why_significant":"The property is significant under Criterion B for its association with James William Center Pogue (1839-1907), who lived there from 1880 to 1898 and again at the end of his life. Pogue introduced the lemon industry to Tulare County, laid out the townsite of Lemon Cove in 1894, and served two terms as county supervisor. The hotel also became the social and civic center of the community.","narrative":"Built in 1879 beside the wagon road to Mineral King, this L-shaped redwood hotel in Lemoncove, Tulare County, served travelers, timber teamsters and tourists before becoming a family home and later a clubhouse. Its Late Victorian design shows Eastlake and Stick influences, with arched porches on the ground floor, a bracketed balcony above, and a rare Gothic-style gable on the facade. The building matters chiefly because of James W.C. Pogue, who lived here and introduced lemon growing to Tulare County, moving citrus trees to the grounds in 1879 and winning a first premium for lemons at the 1885 Los Angeles Fair. In 1894 he surveyed the town of Lemon Cove, and the hotel and nearby store became its center. His daughter Nora Pogue Montgomery deeded the building to the Lemon Cove Woman's Club in 1936, and it remains a community gathering place.","period_of_significance":"1880 - 1898","architect_builder":"Pogue, James William Center","architectural_style":"Late Victorian: Gothic, Stick/Eastlake, Swiss","criteria":["B"],"status_note":"Currently used as a social clubhouse by the Lemon Cove Woman's Club; it has changed little since its early years apart from remodelings in 1904, about 1915 and 1936.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:28.046933-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/91000927.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91000927/29c3d18c2d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91000927/29c3d18c2d-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"LittleT889","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pogue_Hotel.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">LittleT889</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pogue_Hotel.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"16000468","name":"Big Creek Hydroelectric System Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/california/big-creek-hydroelectric-system-historic-district-16000468/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123862241","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogue_Hotel","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14683679"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/tulare-county/pogue-hotel-91000927/"}