“ Arohead ” 
House-parties are the rule for a large portion of the 
summer months at “Arohead,” and to provide indi¬ 
vidual sleeping quarters, a number of guests’ cottages 
are built near-by. 
In design and work¬ 
manship these cor¬ 
respond with the 
main house, and 
each is complete 
within itself. 
Mr. Tevis and his 
four sons, all young 
men, are ardent lov¬ 
ers of out-door life, 
of fishing and of 
hunting, and it was 
for this reason that 
“A rohead” was 
built on the shore 
of Lake Tahoe. 
This lake abounds 
with almost every 
variety of the “ finny 
family” that inhab¬ 
its fresh water, and 
is a well known re¬ 
sort for all followers 
of the genial Izaak 
Walton. In the 
surrounding moun¬ 
tains, various kinds 
of game, both large 
and small, are to be 
found, affording 
excellent opportuni¬ 
ties therefore for eagle falls near 
sport, which some¬ 
times is of a very exciting nature. Mr. Tevis has 
his own private boat house on the lake, and in 
addition to a number of row boats of various 
sizes and kinds for various purposes, a modern, 
high-power gasoline launch. By this means delight¬ 
ful excursions are made to the many points of 
interest along the lake’s shores. In short, “Aro¬ 
head,” as a summer 
retreat is unexcelled 
and has but few 
equals. A house an 
example of all that 
is artistic in the 
builders’ craft, of a 
design that melts 
into the envi ron- 
ment as if it had 
grown there; a site 
naturally most beau¬ 
tiful, yet enhanced 
in beauty by the 
blending of the sev¬ 
eral motifs into one 
harmonious whole 
by the art of the 
landscape archi¬ 
tect; a lake, cele¬ 
brated throughout 
the world because 
of its crystal beauty, 
and surrounding 
snow-capped moun¬ 
tains. All this in 
combination would 
suggest a fabric of 
fancy. But the in¬ 
vigorating tonic of 
the pine woods, the 
cool breezes from 
the tevis house the snow-capped 
mountains, the 
silvery flash of the speckled trout, lured by the 
gaudy fly of its liking, all of which have been so 
recently experienced and seen, prove it to be the 
tangible realization of a presumptuous dream. 
LAKE TAHOE-SNOW-CAPPED MOUNTAINS IN THE DISTANCE 
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