TQ’s Summer issue is on the stands and it’s gorgeous! Extra props to my editor, Sylas, for fighting for this cover picture; I love how it turned out.
I wrote a story about Lahontan, a golf course community up in Truckee that was founded in the mid-1990s. It was so timely because I’ve been writing about golf course communities and architecture for a personal project.
Lahontan was the Tahoe area’s first country club development (although Glenbrook was the oldest gated development, dating to 1860, and boasts the area’s—and state’s—first golf course, dating to 1926) and it’s traditionally been fairly rigid with its architecture review process; however, more recently, it’s seen a loosening of those guidelines to accommodate some of today’s more popular trends, like the streamlined rooflines and increased fenestration and glazing.
It’s interesting to compare it to its neighbor, Martis Camp, which gets so much press between its homes and its amenities (though, more recently, Clear Creek Tahoe is edging in with exceptional projects), but Lahontan’s got the classic architecture and, as my husband can attest, the area’s best golf course. A fun article to write, though, and I felt like I learned a lot about the evolution of these luxury Tahoe developments. And, it always helps to get some great quotes; my absolute favorite was by contractor Mark Neave, who said of Lahontan, “I like to think of it as the Audrey Hepburn of gated communities. It’s just timeless.” It probably helps that he said it in an Australian accent.
Link to the article here, and now to get started on my next article, which is a new construction project, this time out of South Lake Tahoe!
Alison O. Bender 