page_title: Big Pine Creek (California)
section_title: Historic landmark
hierarchical_section_title: Big Pine Creek (California) / Historic landmark
caption_attribution_description: English: Lon Chaney Sr. High Sierra House, front view. The cabin is located in the Inyo National Forest, about 2.5 miles (4.0&#160;km) from the Big Pine Creek trail head next to the north fork of Big Pine Creek, Eastern Sierra. The cabin was designed by Paul R. Williams, a noted architect, and was built in 1929.
context_page_description: Big Pine Creek is a 12.1-mile-long stream in Inyo County of eastern California, in the western United States. It flows from the eastern Sierra Nevada down to the Owens Valley, where it is a major tributary of the Owens River near Big Pine.
context_section_description: The actor Lon Chaney had a stone cabin built on the North Fork of Big Pine Creek, as a personal retreat. The cabin was designed in 1929 by renowned Southern California architect Paul Williams. It still stands, preserved in the Inyo National Forest, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
  High above the cabin are numerous lakes, some which are of greenish hue due to glacial melt.
caption: The historic landmark
  Lon Chaney—Paul Williams cabin on the North Fork Big Pine Creek.
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