A dramatic cloudscape fills the sky over Golden Gate Villa, a Queen Anne home built atop Beach Hill in Santa Cruz in 1891. The house was designed by San Francisco architect Thomas J. Welsh for ...

Built during the Gold Rush more than a century and a half ago, Cary House Hotel in Placerville is one of the oldest hotels in ...

Among the features: pet-wash station, koa wood-panelled office, chandelier from Spain, fiber-optic night sky ceiling display.