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Arrowhead Springs Hotel a resort hotel, and during World War 2 Naval Convalescent Hospital Arrowhead Springs, is near the City of Arrowhead Springs, north of San Bernardino, California. Naval Convalescent Hospital Arrowhead Springs was a US Navy medical treatment facility during World War 2. The hotel/hospital has an outdoor swimming pool, 130 person theater, natural hot springs, lake, tennis courts and recreational facilities on 1,700 acres in the mountains. From 1961 to 1992, the resort hotel was the headquarters, training center and conference center of Campus Crusade for Christ. In May of 2017, the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians purchased the resort.
File:FirstArrowheadSpringsHotel.JPG, First Arrowhead Springs Hotel, opened in 1864 and burnt down in 1886
File:SecondArrowheadSpringsHotelCalifornia1886.jpg, Second Arrowhead Springs Hotel, opened in 1886 and burned in 1895
File:ThirdArrowheadSpringsHotel1905.jpg, Third Arrowhead Springs Hotel, opened in 1905 and burned in 1939
File:SanBernardinoValley-1907-loc.jpg, Arrowhead Springs Hotel, circa 1907
Image:arrowheadarch1929.jpg, Arrowhead Springs Resort Archway. circa 1929
File:Arrowhead, California.JPG, Natural Arrowhead shape near Arrowhead Springs Hotel
Arrowhead Springs Hotel a resort hotel, and during World War 2 Naval Convalescent Hospital Arrowhead Springs, is near the City of Arrowhead Springs, north of San Bernardino, California. Naval Convalescent Hospital Arrowhead Springs was a US Navy medical treatment facility during World War 2. The hotel/hospital has an outdoor swimming pool, 130 person theater, natural hot springs, lake, tennis courts and recreational facilities on 1,700 acres in the mountains. From 1961 to 1992, the resort hotel was the headquarters, training center and conference center of Campus Crusade for Christ. In May of 2017, the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians purchased the resort.
History
The Arrowhead Springs Hotel opened in 1939 as a resort hotel inSan Bernardino Mountains
The San Bernardino Mountains are a high and rugged mountain range in Southern California in the United States. Situated north and northeast of San Bernardino and spanning two California counties, the range tops out at at San Gorgonio Mountain â ...
. It became a popular spot for Hollywood guests. Above the resort on a near by hill is an arrowhead-shaped natural landmark, thus the name. The report was designed by African American architect Paul R. Williams
Paul Revere Williams, FAIA (February 18, 1894 – January 23, 1980) was an American architect based in Los Angeles, California. He practiced mostly in Southern California and designed the homes of numerous celebrities, including Frank Sina ...
and Gordon Kaufmann in the art deco style. The land was home to the Yuhaaviatam clan of the Serrano people before the resort opened. Before the resort the spot was a small tuberculosis sanitarium center that had a natural steam cave and mud baths that opened in 1864. A 1886 fire bunt down the sanitarium building. A new hotel was built in 1905 and at the same time, the Arrowhead Springs Company was founded selling bottled spring water, Arrowhead Springs water. In 1938 the resort was sold to Hollywood group: Jay Paley, Joseph M. Schenck
Joseph Michael Schenck (; December 25, 1876 – October 22, 1961) was a Russian-born American film studio executive.
Life and career
Schenck was born to a Jewish family in Rybinsk, Yaroslavl Oblast, Russian Empire. He emigrated to New York City ...
, Constance Bennett, Al Jolson, Darryl Zanuck and Claudette Colbert for $800,000. A 1938 fire burnt down this second resort. The group spent $1.5 million and built the current resort. The main building is four-story with two wings the center also had 10 bungalows. The interior was designed by Dorothy Draper of New York. Hollywood guests included Charlie Chaplin
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin Jr. (16 April 188925 December 1977) was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film. He became a worldwide icon through his screen persona, the Tramp, and is consider ...
, Judy Garland, and Clark Gable. Bugsy Siegel was a regular guest also. The resort was used for filming movies, including Humphrey Bogart
Humphrey DeForest Bogart (; December 25, 1899 – January 14, 1957), nicknamed Bogie, was an American film and stage actor. His performances in Classical Hollywood cinema films made him an American cultural icon. In 1999, the American Film In ...
in High Sierra in 1941. The US Navy leased the resort hotel on 7.5-acre and turned it into a 149 room hospital that opened in June of 1944, also called Naval Special Hospital, Arrowhead Springs. It was opened to help with the overcrowing at US Naval Hospital Corona. In June 1944, 500 patients were transferred from Corona to Arrowhead Springs. At the end of the war, in November 1945, when the Hospital closed over 5800 troops had been cared for at the Hospital. After the war it returned to a resort hotel. Esther Williams
Esther Jane Williams (August 8, 1921 – June 6, 2013) was an American competitive swimmer and actress. She set regional and national records in her late teens on the Los Angeles Athletic Club swim team. Unable to compete in the 1940 Summer Ol ...
made a movie, Thrill of a Romance in 1945. In 1946, the resort was purchased the Hull group of Chicago. Then in 1946, sold to Conrad Hilton
Conrad Nicholson Hilton Sr. (December 25, 1887 – January 3, 1979) was an American businessman who founded the Hilton Hotels chain. From 1912 to 1916 Hilton was a Republican representative in the first New Mexico Legislature, but became disil ...
for $2 million. In 1950 Elizabeth Taylor
Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor (February 27, 1932 – March 23, 2011) was a British-American actress. She began her career as a child actress in the early 1940s and was one of the most popular stars of classical Hollywood cinema in the 1950s. ...
and Nicky Hilton
Nicholai Olivia "Nicky" Rothschild ( Hilton; born October 5, 1983) is an American socialite, fashion designer and model. She is a member of the Hilton family by birth, and a member of the Rothschild family through her marriage to James Rothschi ...
honeymooned at the resort. Sold again in 1951 to Hilton Hotel, then to Campus Crusade for Christ in 1961. Campus Crusade for Christ moved to Orlando, Florida
Orlando () is a city in the U.S. state of Florida and is the county seat of Orange County, Florida, Orange County. In Central Florida, it is the center of the Greater Orlando, Orlando metropolitan area, which had a population of 2,509,831, acco ...
in 1991. In March of 1992, the resort went for sale with no buyers. The resort was vacant till sold to San Manuel in 2017.San Bernardino Historical Society, by Steve Shaw
Gallery
See also
* California during World War II * American Theater (1939–1945) *United States home front during World War II
The United States home front during World War II supported the war effort in many ways, including a wide range of volunteer efforts and submitting to government-managed Rationing in the United States, rationing and price controls. There was a gen ...
* DeWitt General Hospital
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Arrowhead Springs Hotel 1940s in California History of California United States in World War II 1864 establishments in California Military installations closed in 1945 Resorts in California