Category Archives: Springs Historic Photo Database

Boyes Hot Springs, El Verano, History, Photographs, Resorts, Springs Historic Photo Database

New to the Valley of the Moon Historic Photo Database March 2021

Circa 1910. Looking northeast from the hotel. The depot is about in the center. To the left is the club house. The arbor is at center left. In the foreground you can see some wonderful faces. As you know from newspaper accounts, the crowds were very large in the summer. Courtesy of Ron Price.
“Hotel Promenade and Driveway, Boyes Calif.” I think the arbor seen in the first photo is at the right side here. No crowd, just three strolling women. The photographer was C. R. Payne. Courtesy of Ron Price.
Saint Francis villa was near Verdiers Resort in El Verano. Courtesy Ron Price.
Sonoma Creek at Sonoma Grove Resort, 1911. Acker collection.
El Verano Amphitheater. 1950s. At the site of Maxwell Farms on Verano Avenue. I have no information on this establishment. Courtesy Sonoma Valley Historical Society.
Larson’s Sport Shop and Liquor Store, 1950s. Booze and hunting equipment are no longer sold in the same store! This is the current location of the Barking Dog Roasters in Boyes Hot Springs. Photo courtesy of the Larson family.
Evergreen Cottages was on Pine Avenue on Boyes. The buildings still stand. This looks to be from the 1940s. Dig the crazy colors. Acker collection
Ferrando’s Plumbing at Highway 12 and Thompson Ave. 2005. So much has changed since 2005! Photo by M. Acker
Sonoma Valley Grange #407, 2005. When the sidewalks went in, the front entrance was removed. That wall now sports the famous mural by su servidor. Photo by M. Acker

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Agua Caliente, Boyes Hot Springs, Photographs, Resorts, Springs Historic Photo Database

New to the Springs Historic Photo Database

ACSpringsDiningRoom

1916. Gaslights possibly converted to electricity, which came in in 1913.

BoyesPoolsnapshot

Date unknown. The pool was covered in the 1950s.

KoenigisStore1914

1914. The viewer is standing approximately where the parking lot behind the post office is now. The red building on the right is Graham’s Store, the location of the first post office in Boyes.

SonomaProperties

18340 sonoma Highway. burned down in 1979. See the post “The Greengrass Bldg.”

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Boyes Hot Springs, El Verano, History, Photographs, Resorts, Springs Historic Photo Database

New to the Springs Historic Photo Database

bhsbathhousehorseandtank

Probably around 1910

bhsmancigar1912

His name is Gus. Post marked Boyes Hot Springs, but is this the Plaza? 1912

boyeshoteltent

The “Old Hotel.” Before 1923

evvillapano

El Verano Villa. Near Verano Ave. and the creek.

gableshotelcottages

Gables Hotel. Exact location unknown.

smi1937

Sonoma Mission Inn, 1937, ten years after it was completed.

sonomagrovenook1912

Sonoma Grove, on the Highway between Sonoma and Boyes.

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Boyes Hot Springs, El Verano, Fetters Hot Springs, Photographs, Springs Historic Photo Database

New to the Springs Historic Photo Database: From the Ron Price Collection

BellvueHotelPorch

The porch at the Bellvue Hotel, El Verano, before 1911.

BoyesHotelPromenade

Promenade at the Boyes springs Hotel, 1920.

BoyestheaterRonPrice

Boyes Resort Theater, 1921.

FettersCampGrounds

Camp Grounds at Fetters Resort

HotelBHSRonPrice

Hotel at Boyes Springs, 1920s

LittleSwissGroup

Little Switzerland, El Verano, 1954

ParenteBros.threeimages

Parente Resort, El Verano, before 1920

SMIwithMountains

Sonoma Mission Inn, Boyes Hot Springs, 1938

St.FrancisVillaEV

St. Francis Villa boarding House, El Verano, 1915

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