Aetna Springs Resort

Aetna Springs Resort occupies 672 wooded acres in Pope Valley, Napa County, where a mineral springs resort grew from the 1870s into the early 1930s. A compact core holds 32 buildings, including the dining hall, social hall, soda fountain building, the original lodge called Winship, and many guest cottages. Stone walls, two stone and timber bridges, a pergola and a mineral bath pavilion add to the setting. Cobblestone foundations, wood shingles, latticed porches and exposed timber give the buildings a consistent rustic look, strengthened by remodeling in the early 1930s by Albert Farr and J. Frances Ward. The dining and social halls resemble the work of Bernard Maybeck, though the dining hall attribution is undocumented. The resort operated until the 1970s and was later vacant, with some cottage interiors stripped. It was listed as one of California's finest surviving mineral springs resorts and an example of the First Bay Tradition of Arts and Crafts design.