The Nakoma Resort is a golf resort in Mohawk Valley of Plumas County, California.
Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.
A resort is a self-contained commercial establishment that tries to provide most of a vacationer's wants, such as food, drink, lodging, sports, entertainment, and shopping, on the premises. The term resort may be used for a hotel property that provides an array of amenities, typically including entertainment and recreational activities. A hotel is frequently a central feature of a resort, such as the Grand Hotel at Mackinac Island, Michigan. Some resorts are also condominium complexes that are timeshares or owed fractionally or wholly owned condominium. A resort is not always a commercial establishment operated by a single company, but in the late 20th century, that sort of facility became more common.
Mohawk is an unincorporated community in Plumas County, California. It lies at an elevation of 4360 feet. Mohawk is located 1 mile (1.6 km) west of Blairsden.
It features a 24,000 square foot clubhouse designed in 1923 by Frank Lloyd Wright at the request of the Nakoma Country Club in Madison, Wisconsin. According to the Madison, Wisconsin Nakoma Resort's website, the clubhouse's design was described as "the most unique building of its kind in America" by the Wisconsin State Journal. [1] Due to the cost of the construction the Country Club did not build Wright's masterpiece. The design was not implemented until 77 years later, when the owners of Taliesin Architect master-planned Gold Mountain environmentally sensitive community, Dariel and Margaret (Peggy) Garner purchased the 1924 Wright plan and constructed the building just 3 miles outside Portola, CA; with the clubhouse opening in on Mother's Day, 2001. Nakoma is a Chippewa Indian word which means "I do as I promise."
Frank Lloyd Wright was an American architect, interior designer, writer, and educator, who designed more than 1,000 structures, 532 of which were completed. Wright believed in designing structures that were in harmony with humanity and its environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture. This philosophy was best exemplified by Fallingwater (1935), which has been called "the best all-time work of American architecture". His creative period spanned more than 70 years.
Madison is the capital of the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the seat of Dane County. As of July 1, 2017, Madison's estimated population of 255,214 made it the second-largest city in Wisconsin by population, after Milwaukee, and the 82nd-largest in the United States. The city forms the core of the Madison Metropolitan Area which includes Dane County and neighboring Iowa, Green, and Columbia counties for a population of 654,230.
The Wisconsin State Journal is a daily newspaper published in Madison, Wisconsin by Lee Enterprises. The newspaper, the second largest in Wisconsin, is primarily distributed in a 19 county region in south-central Wisconsin. As of September 2018, the Wisconsin State Journal had an average weekday circulation of 51,303 and an average Sunday circulation of 64,820.
The resort also included 12 Spa Villas, vacation rentals intended to echo the construction elements of the clubhouse, designed by Taliesin-trained architects Martin Newland and Elisabeth Winnen, then students of the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture. The entry pond, like the original Madison, Wisconsin design displays two native Indian statues; Nakoma and Nakomis. The Nakoma statue is the daughter of the moon and the mother of Hiawatha. Nakomis is the male counterpart to Nakoma. He depicts a native Indian story of Nakomis teaching his son how to shoot an arrow to the Sun God. The Nakoma Resort and Spa development established in 1996 rejuvenated the surrounding communities of Graeagle and Portola putting Plumas County on the map as an undiscovered mountain recreation area. The area offers the Wild and Scenic Feather River corridor and its world-class trout fishing, Lake Davis, Frenchman's Lake, Great Lakes Basin, Hwy 49 gold country, just to name a few.
Taliesin Associated Architects was an architectural firm founded by Frank Lloyd Wright to carry on his architectural vision after his death in 1959. The firm disbanded in 2003.
