Coulter Hotel - Coulterville Main Street Historic District - Coulterville, CA
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saopaulo1
N 37° 42.625 W 120° 11.839
10S E 747058 N 4177384
The remains of the Coulter Hotel in Coulterville, CA.
Waymark Code: WMR1GQ
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 04/27/2016
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"Although in structural disrepair, this stone hotel is historically a key component of the Coulterville commercial area. Constructed in 1860 by George Coulter, the town's founder, this hotel occupied a prominent site at the intersection of Main Street and the wagon road that is now Highway 49. This structure is constructed chiefly of schist slab, which forms the foundation as well as three walls. The facade, however, is built of neatly dressed locally quarried sandstone block. Soapstone, rhyolite, and tuffaceous sandstone were often used in the Mother Lode to add elegance to structures built of rough and common stone. The Coulter Hotel is the only extant example of this architectural type in Coulterville. The stone walls of this structure remain but have begun to collapse in several key places. Concrete blocks have been added for emergency support of the soapstone blocks at one of the former entrances to the hotel. The Northern Mariposa County History Center intends to rehabilitate this structure as faithfully as possible to its original appearance and utilize it as an historical museum." (
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