A big blue lake Part II

At Ed Z'berg Sugar Pine Point State Park, I signed up for a tour of the Hellman-Ehrman Mansion.



The mansion was built in 1903 as a summer home for Isais Hellman, who was a financier and banker.



It was called Pine Lodge back in the day.



Isais Hellman purchased about 2,000 acres of property at Sugar Pine Point between 1897 and 1913.



I enjoyed the awesome old stuff inside the mansion, such as the clawfoot bathtub.



The old bedroom furniture was pretty spiffy, too.



Isais Hellman's youngest daughter, Florence Hellman Ehrman, inherited the property, and the Ehrman family sold most of the property to the State of California in 1965.



While the tour was super awesome, this smashed golden mantled ground squirrel was not awesome.  Those are its innards trailing behind it and that's one of its eyeballs popped out.  Poor ground squirrel.



But moving on to brighter things!  Come back for Part III!