Lake Norconian Club

Lake Norconian Club is a resort district in Norco, California, centered on a large Spanish Colonial Revival hotel and club built into a hillside above a 58-acre man-made lake. The 204,000-square-foot main building has stucco walls, clay tile roofs and Churrigueresque cast stone ornament, and its massing remains basically intact. Inside, the dining hall, the gym that began as a ballroom, the music room and the south indoor pool keep much of their original decoration. The district also includes a tea room and terrace, a casino/pavilion, a boathouse, a stone footbridge, gazebos, a power plant with smokestack, a laundry/garage building with gas station island, and the 1920s maids' quarters. During World War II the Navy took over the grounds and added hospital buildings. The property was later divided between the State of California and the Navy, and security features such as guard towers were added. The ensemble preserves a rare example of a 1920s resort and its landscape setting.