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San Francisco Bay area

Richmond: While working with J. W. Wright, Coffee helped sell some of the first subdivisions in Richmond, California, including; Soito′s Addition in 1907,^[6] Emeric No. 2 in 1908,^[7] and Central Richmond in 1909. He worked on the Pullman–Pueblo tract in 1910 with McKenzie & Hogg. Coffee advertised extensively to promote Richmond, referring to it as "the Pittsburgh of the West".^[8] He offered free excursions to Richmond and organized various activities to help attract prospective buyers. On March 6, 1910, during aviations pioneer era, he sponsored one of the earliest airplane exhibitions in California at the Central Richmond tract. The event featured the O'Brien–Hudson Monoplane, or Richmond Monoplane, built by local ″inventors″ Clifton O'Brien and John W. Hudson,^[a] and piloted by O'Brien.^[9] The event attracted several thousand people, but ended in disappointment when the cylinder head blew off before takeoff.^[10]

• Add photo of Coffee with Hudson & O'Brien
• partially motivated to build homes for "homeless" San Franciscans?^[2]

Glen Arbor: In 1909 Coffee developed the Glen Arbor subdivision in the San Lorenzo Valley of Santa Cruz County. Today the community falls within the Ben Lomond Census Designated Place. Coffee, with his wife and son, made their home in the development. To support the subdivision Coffee built a train depot on the Southern Pacific railroad line,^[3] and a clubhouse designed by architect L. D. Esty.^[11] One of the incentives Coffee used to draw interest in the development was a competition for naming the new community. In keeping with other Scottish naming conventions in the area, started by the early settler John Burns, Glen Arbor was the winning entry.^[12] Heidelberg, Monte Cruz, and Portola Heights were other top contenders.^[13]

• 1909 May, Ordway Tract map filed See.
• In addition to the Richmond and Glen Arbor, and while still with J. W. Wright, Coffee also worked on the subdivisions of Sans Souci Heights on Lake Tahoe and Rock Ridge Terrace near Oakland. Sans Souci Heights became part of Homeland, California.
• 1919 May 22, death of J. B. Olsen who help establish Gen Arbor, first subdivision in San Lorenzo Valley.See.
• contest See.
• Need source for "first development in San Lorenzo Valley".

Balboa Island

Balboa Island: In 1912 Coffee went to Southern California to work for the Balboa Island Realty Company where he worked on the subdivision and promotion of Balboa Island. He again advertised and sponsored many free excursions to entice prospective buyers. In May Coffee used another aviation pioneer to help attract attention. This time arrangements were made to display Glenn Martin's "hydroaeroplane"^[14] which had recently set an over–water record, flying from Balboa Island to Santa Catalina Island and back.^[15] Also in May Coffee opened the company′s first branch office in Southern California′s Inland Empire region, on E Street in San Bernardino.^[16] By July he had made arrangements for a special train from Redlands and San Bernardino that could accommodate 1,000 people.^[17] When the Newport Bay Investment Company sold its holdings and dissolved the company at the end of October, Coffee left the Balboa Island Realty business. He still had a lein on the land for unpaid commissions of nearly $13,000.^[18]

Outside California

Guaymas, Mexico: In September, 1912, Coffee had spent a month touring Sonora, Mexico, and was convinced the land was ripe for development, noting the planned opening of the Panama Canal.^[19] After he left Balboa Island Realty he made a second trip to Mexico in November.^[20] Newspaper accounts stated he was working with the Los Angeles firm of Riccardi & Lacy to find land in Guaymas, Mexico. Riccardi was described as someone who specialized in "colonizing European people in new countries". Coffee was helping the firm locate land in Mexico for settling up to 250 Italian families.^[21]

1915

• March, living in Martinez; See.

1916

• 1916 Mar, founded Glen Arbor lives in Martinez see
• 1916 Sep, South Ogden, Utah, Sunset Heights Sales Manager see
• 1916 Sep 4, (20 years ago) developed for agricultural purposes

1917

• June, living in Ontario, CA? See.
• 717 S Flower St, Employer: Ville De Paris, Salesman

1918

• March, L. W. Coffee of Phoenix; See.

Oil Development: Newspaper accounts show that Coffee had organized, and was president of, the Consolidated Oil Development Company. The company had purchased 19,900 acres of land south of Tucson, Arizona. The intent of the operation was to sell land, rather than shares in the oil company. A portion of each acre of land sold would contribute to a drilling fund, and each land owner would share in the profits from any oil or water discovered.^[22][23] In June, 1919, Coffee and the company began selling lots.^[24] By July the company had began drilling its first well.^[25]

• 1919 Jun 8, mention of Coffee of LA visiting friends, formerly business in Tucson and Nogales. See.
• 1919 Jun 8, President of "Consolidated Oil Development Co", drilling in near Tucson. See.
• 1919 Jun 16, Additional drilling. See.
• 1919 Jun 23, Additional drilling. See.
• Book by Hunt; claimed he made and lost several fortunes in Texas.
  • During his days in Desert Hot Springs Coffee claimed he had, "made and lost fourteen fortunes back in Texas", but the particulars of such a fortune are not known.^[26]

Southern California

LOS ANGELES

• In 1919 opened real estate office in LA.^[4]
• 1920 Mar, Planned excursion to Burbank, with Victor Girard: See.

Electric Park: Unlike many towns, where Electric Park was an amusement park, the Los Angeles Electric Park was the name of Coffee's subdivision located at the junction of five trolley lines; four Pacific Electric Railway lines and one Los Angeles Railway line.^[27] Coffee's obituary in the Riverside Press Enterprise states that Coffee built 359 homes at Electric Park, ″... at a rate of one completed each day.″^[1] The subdivision was about halfway between Downtown Los Angeles and the San Pedro Harbor. Advertised as ″the path of development″ between the city and the harbor,^[27] the phrase would prove prophetic. The residential blocks mentioned in the September 23, 1920 ad for Electric Park, on 116th and 117th streets between Figueroa and Moneta^[27] (now Broadway),^[28] are today the location of the Harbor Freeway and Century Freeway interchange. The portion of the subdivision west of the Harbor Freeway is in the Vermont Vista neighborhood of Los Angeles, and the eastern portion is in the Broadway-Manchester neighborhood.^[29][30]

• 1920 Oct, Electric Park, LA
  • Sep 23, Coffee & Stiller, Electric Park at "Athens on the Hill", business at Figueroa and Moneta and residential 116th and 117th: See. USED
    • Moneta renamed Broadway in 1925; See.
  • Oct 11, earliest ad, between Broadway and Figueroa See.
  • Oct 11, working for "Title Insurance and Trust Company" See.
  • Oct 18, List of red car and yellow car lines See.
  • Oct 23, Mentions "South Los Angeles" new town See.
  • Oct 30, Map of Electric Park See.
  • Oct 11, Coffee coordinates with Dover Rice for sales in Santa Maria Valley & Electric Park
  • Nov 1, photo of white building, See.
  • 1924 Apr 3, Last ad mentioning Coffee & Stiller; See.
  • 1924 Jul 9, Possible new town to include Electric Park See.
  • Los Angeles neighborhood map; See.
  • Vermont Vista neighborhood See. USED
  • Broadway-Manchester neighborhood See USED

1921

• In Grosse bldg See.

Capistrano Beach: In November, 1924, Coffee organized the Capistrano Beach Syndicate. The syndicate purchased three miles of ocean-front land to establish the Capistrano Beach resort and club. They purchased one thousand acres from John and Frank Forster, sons of Marcus A. Forster who had purchased Rancho Boca de la Playa in 1886.^[31] In May, Coffee and the sales agent, Joseph Arthur Waldy, staged a large automobile parade through many Southern California cities to advertise the town using the slogan Birth of a City.^[32] After the first 200 acre phase was sold, the syndicate voted to replace Coffee with Charles Piers to manage the development.^[33]

• Possible photo of parade
• photos of Capistrano Beach See.
• Description of tract in relation to beach See.
• Description of parade route See.
• Large ad about live radio at "Birth of a City": See.
• Ref uses 10,000 acres^[34]

LA Office

• 1927 Apr, Flower Street Income Properties, owned in part b coffee See.
• 1928 Jan, Photo of Coffee see
• 1928 Jan, Move to new building from Grosse bldg to Pac Nat Bank on 9th and Hill see
• 1928 Feb, Part of LA City planning committee. See.

Serra: In May, 1928, L. W. Coffee & Company, Inc. started offering lots for sale in the Serra business district near Capistrano Beach. The lots followed the original town layed out by the Pacific Improvement Company in 1888.^[35]

• See.

Azusa

• 1929 Feb, Azusa Lawsuit See.

Wheeler Hot Springs: In June, 1929, Coffee started making arrangements to purchase Wheeler Hot Springs in the Ojai Valley of Ventura County. His plan was to form a syndicate of interested businessmen to further develop the hot springs resort, and to subdivide some of the land for homes.^[36] By August it was announced that L. W. Coffee and Associates had purchased the hot springs, which he planned to operate under the name Wheeler Hot Springs Corporation. One hundred and twenty acres would be subdivided for developing mountain resort homes.^[37] Two months later came the Wall Street Crash of 1929, triggering the Great Depression, and Coffee′s plans did not move forward.^[38] By January, 1930, it was announced that Wheelers Hot Springs corporation had been reorganized and the resort was back under control of the Wilcox and Blumberg families, who Coffee had purchased the springs from. Although no longer part of the reorganized business, Coffee's plan to subdivide some of the property for home sites proceeded without him.^[39]

• Additional Wheeler article, See.
• 1929 Oct, Coffee develops geology skills, See.

1944 Oct 19, Desc of coffees plans (15 years ago)

DHS

• 1932, Founded DHS [San Francisco obituary.
• 1955 Aug 15, Closed LA office See.

List of subdivisions managed or sold by L. W. Coffee

Coffee was advertised as the subdivision manager, and/or selling agent, for subdivisions listed below. His biography describes him as the "originator, founder and developer" of Desert Hot Springs.^[4]

Cabot Yerxa & Bill Anderson

In 1913 Cabot Yerxa established a homestead in the area of what would become Desert Hot Springs on a promontory he named Miracle Hill, just to the east of a small palm grove that surveyors had previously named Two Bunch Palms. Yerxa hand dug a well to about 30 feet, and found hot mineral water. He dug a second well on the other side of the hill and found a cold water supply. In May, 1917, Yerxa left the desert to join the Army and fight in World War I. After the war Yerxa operated a general store and was a postmaster in Fertilla, north of Blythe, California, until 1924, then traveled extensively in Europe and other locations before settling in Moorpark, California where he operated a retail business.^[63]

A. Muller, Yerxa's bookkeeper and clerk, had mentioned Yerxa's hot and cold water discovery to Coffee in several letters. In November, 1932, Coffee stopped in Moorpark, visited his friend Muller, and Muller introduced Coffee to Yerxa. Yerxa encouraged Coffee to visit the area, and provided Coffee with a map and a letter of introduction to Bill Anderson, another homesteader still living in the area. Coffee and his wife Lillian took a train to visit the site a few days later, just before Thanksgiving. Upon arriving at the Garnet station, the couple had to walk several miles through the desert to reach Yerxa's abandoned dwelling, and then to Bill Anderson's home. Anderson told the Coffees of his experience homesteading in the desert, and expressed his interest and thoughts about possibly developing the area. Anderson's excitement convinced Coffee that there were possibilities, if a good source of hot mineral water could be developed.

While Anderson expressed an interest in developing a community, as Coffee learned more, he began to develop the idea of using the hot springs to establish not just a community, but also a world-class health center. Later he would suggest that Desert Hot Springs could be the Baden Baden of America. After spending about 4 weeks studying the area, Coffee was convinced to move forward with development.

The Trust

Coffee's plan was to form a trust with interested landowners in the area. The owners would mutually share in the profits from development of the land. Since most of the landowners had moved away, it took some effort to locate the individuals and to organize the trust, but with Bill Anderson's assistance Coffee was successful, and the trust was formed in about four months time, with The Pioneer Title and Trust Company of San Bernardino as the trustee. The beneficiaries of the trust included early homesteaders Mrs. Lucy P. Milliken-Woods and Willard G. "Bill" Anderson, Aubrey Wardman, who had gained possession of the Ford I. Beebe homestead, and Leo Pierson, who had originally purchased his land from the Southern Pacific Land Company.

In May, 1933, Coffee began drilling to identify a good source of water, and by late 1933 Coffee had began selling 1 acre lots in the new Desert Hot Springs subdivision.^[64] By February, 1934, it was announced that construction had been started on the Desert Hot Springs subdivision, which was to include a hot spring bathhouse and plunge,^[65]. In April of that year Frank W. and Edith E. Chandler purchased Bill Anderson's interest in the trust. Chandler was a well known dentist who at the time was living in Mentone, California. Chandler was intent on breaking the trust, and Woods and Pierson sided with him. Wardman attempted to convince them to stay in the trust.

Coffee continued developing the subdivision, bathhouse and some guest cottages, but the trust was eventually dissolved in 1936, and the land rights reverted to the original owners. Bill Anderson died in an automobile accident on Dec 28, 1937,^[66] and Chandler's interest in the trust was not resolved until 1938, at which time Coffee had to relinquish any interest he had in the trust.^[67] After the dissolution, Chandler purchased an additional 80 acres of the Woods tract, which included the original bathhouse and cottages that Coffee had already built.^[68] Given that Coffee was not one of the original owners of the trust land, Coffee no longer had any control or financial interest in the development.^[69]

Aubrey Wardman

William John Aubrey Wardman (1877–1962) was a prominent businessman from Whittier, California. Wardman worked his way up in the local phone company, and eventually purchased controlling interest in both the Whittier and Downey telephone companies. In 1919 he invested in the Santa Fe Springs, California oil fields making him even wealthier, and during the depression years he started purchasing citrus groves and eventually owned over 1500 acres.^[70] Wardman was said to have obtained the Ford I. Beebe desert homestead through payment of a debt.^[71]

With the end of the trust in 1938, development activity in Desert Hot springs ceased. Coffee said his hope for building a great health center in the area had "gone down about 90 per cent",^[68] until early 1939 when Aubrey Wardman proposed to Coffee that they use Wardman's land and financing to start over. Coffee immediately agreed and signed a contract with Wardman to manage the project. Shortly afterwards, Leo Pierson sold 280 acres of his land to Wardman, and Wardman purchased another 320 acres, including Yerxa's holdings.^[72]

By January, 1940, Coffee had everything in place to begin selling lots.^[73] By January 1941 the foundation for the first commercial bathhouse was started, and on July 12th a grand opening of the new bathhouse (Palm Dr and 8th St) and facilities drew 3,000 people.^[74] Interest and sales continued to increase until December 7, 1941, when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor triggering U.S. involvement in World War II. Sales and construction nearly ceased at the start of the war, but slowly picked up until the original subdivision was sold out by the fall of 1943.

In June, 1951, Coffee purchased Wardman's remaining interest in Desert Hot Springs,^[75] and Wardman announced his retirement from further development in the town.^[76]

Wardmans:

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Coffee Contributions

PO Costs for first 2 years. (Hunt p. 109) Donated land for Baptist, Catholic and Methodist churches, Arroyo park, and Fire station.

Bill Anderson died in an automobile accident Dec 28, 1937. See. See.

Became official when map was filed in 1940.See.

1974: "Desert hot springs Why" articles

1. 0: Feb 14, Prelude ^[2] USED

1. 1: Feb 21, ^[77]

1. 2: Feb 28, ^[78]

1. 3: Mar 7, ^[79]

1. 4: Mar 14, ^[64] USED

1. 5: Mar 21, ^[69] USED

1. 6: Mar 28, ^[68] USED

1. 7: Apr 4, ^[73] USED

1. 8: Apr 11,
2. 9: Apr 18,
3. 10: Apr 25,
4. 11: May 2,
5. 12: May 9,
6. 13: May 16,
7. 14: May 30,
8. 15: Jun 27,
9. 16: Jul 4,
10. 17: Jul 18,
11. 18: Jul 25,
12. 19: Aug 1,

Trust members:

• Leo Pierson (purchased from Southern Pacific Land Company), erected home of stone near railway, moved to Hollywood xx
  • 1936 Dec 10 purchased 180 acres by Desert Springs Holding Co, A. Wardman
• Mrs. Lucy P Milliken (Walter) Woods (5/20/1920), moved to Hollywood xx
• Mr. Ford I. Beebe (1/13/1921), lost homestead through financial difficulties, possibly moved to Hollywood
  • A Wardman xx
• Willard G. "Bill" Anderson (11/11/1926) (one of two living in DHS when Coffee arrived) xx
  • Frank W Chandler bought Anderson's interest. Chandler died Apr 8, 1947.
    • Mrs. Edith E. Chandler, took possession in 1938

Other Homesteaders in the area:

• Otto A. Dixon (5/4/1917)
• Cabot Abram Yerxa (2/7/1918)
• Robert V. Carr (11/1/1915)
• Ira S. Chapman (6/18/1925)
• Michael "Mike" Driscoll (9/11/1928) (one of two living in DHS area when Coffee arrived, no indication he was part of trust)
• Frank C. Haughton (3/29/1930)
• Otto Fred Opperman (1/6/1965)

Timeline

Undated sources

• Timeline Timeline

1932 Nov: Timeline: L.W. Coffee meets Cabot Yerxa who was then operating a grocery store in Moorpark, Ventura County, California. A. Muller, Yerxa's bookkeeper introduced them. (19740221)

• 1932 Coffee was introduced to Cabot Yerxa through a mutual friend in 1932. Yerxa told Coffee of his discovery of hot mineral water on his homestead north of Palm Springs. A short time later Coffee visited the area, and began developing a vision of of a new town devoted to health and wellness. ^[80]

• 1932 Nov (source says 1931): Visited W. B. Anderson (s/b W. G. Anderson) homestead, and decided then to build city. (19490930)

1933 Quote: Coffee organizes a trust whose beneficiaries are the various owners in the area that would become Desert Hot Springs. He begins to drill for water, leasing a small drilling rig and hiring Earl Howard, "a real well driller." Drilling proceeded from early May to late June, when they had "about 65 feet of water in the well at a temperature of 140°. The weather was warm, I was not accoustomed [sic] to it, so all activities ceased until November of the same year." Eventually the well was extended to a depth of 333 feet. (Timeline)

1934 Sep 1, DHS opened to public USED

1934 Sep 1, Coffee place the first advertisement for the opening of Desert Hot Springs. See.

1935 Sep 27, Coffees Mineral Springs, Frank Chandler recently buys part interest, lists mineral content of water See.

1935 Sep 27, Coffee's Hot Mineral Bath ad

1936 Apr 10, Chandler acquires in interest in Coffee Mineral Springs, list trust members, USED

1936 Dec 19, Leo Pierson sells land to Desert Springs Holding Co

1937 Timeline: Cabot Yerxa returns to DHS. He begins to build his pueblo in 1939 and continues working on it until his death in 1965.

1937 Jan 2, New York group to develop DHS

1938 Timeline: Coffee's trust falls apart after 5 years of litigation (nothing ever changes!). Everything halts.

1938 Nov 18, Coffee relinquishes rights to property to L.S.B. Ritchie USED

1940

• 1940 Plat map recorded in 1940 laying out Cabin Sites. (19490930)
• 1940 Coffee starts over by resurveying the area. Sells the first house lots at $95, taking a loss on every one. He builds a tank house containing an ordinary household bath tub at Palm Drive and Eighth. Due to the great demand he then builds a temporary concrete tub outside. (Timeline)

• 1940 Aug 24, A. Wardman buys property from Marion T. Pierson

1940 Dec 13, Coffee subdivider, auto court and motels

1941 Timeline: Coffee builds and opens the first commercial bath house; 120 feet long, separate men's and women's sections. More than 2000 people show up for the grand opening on July 12 and partied until 2:30 AM. At the time Desert Hot Springs consists of only 1 cafe and less than a score of homes.

1941 Jul 7, DHS cabin sites, Coffee subdivider

1941 Jul 10, DHS Grand opening Jul 12th,

1941 Jul 11, Wardman tract opening, street lights to turn on Jul 12th,

1941 Jul 14, 3000 people at grand opening, white race only, plaque dedicated

1942 Apr 4, DHS first sunrise service

1945 Jan 25, Large add for Tract #3 with photo and description of town

1945 Feb 16, Tanner Motor Stage Company, 45 lots sold in Tract #3

1945 Feb 23, Article describing DHS, Wardman, and Coffee

1945 Mar 30, land donated for school

1945 Apr 6, 4th annual Easter Sunrise Service on Miracle Hill

1945 Jul 31, Chamber of Commerce formed and

1946 Jun 28, 4th of July celebration planned, fire fund, 2 bunch palms "worlds worst desert resort"

1946 oct 11, Fiesta Del Desierto (oct 1 -12), fire fund and

1946 Dec 10, Tract #5,

1947 Jan, Fire, $40,000, lack or fire dept. cited and

1947 Jan 24, rebuild soon, Coffee to meet with architects

1947 Apr 11, new $25K bath house to be built, target July 1 and

1947 May 23, Health first before sports and recreation

1947 Jun 13, Baptist church ground breaking

1947 Jul 22, Plaque commemorated

1947 Jul 29, Coffee donated lot for Methodist church

1947 Oct 24, second annual Fiesta del Desierto

1947 Dec 2, bathhouse to be completed by first of 1948

1848 Jan 8, Article by Coffee published in the Sentinel

1948 Mar 18, Find Desert Sentinel article on Wardman

1948 Oct 1, Coffee donated land for Catholic church

1948 Nov 30, Forms DHS realtor group

1949 Mar 18, Street lights, Easter sunrise services

1949 Sep 30, 49r celebration, map filed in 1940 made name official

1950 Apr 28, Therapeutic Pool added.

1951 Mar 8, 11th annual Easter sunrise

1951 Jun 8, Coffee buys Wardman's interest in DHS USED

1951 Jun 28, tracts 4 and 6 open

1951 Jul 19: First Cabot Yerxa article, also 10 year DHS anniversary article.

1951 Jul 26: mentions MacCargers

1951 Sep 6: Article honoring Wardman and discussing Coffee's book. Wardman retires.

1952 Jan 31: In 1952 Coffee and his wife formed the L. W. and Lillian Coffee Foundation. The intent of the foundation was to help ensure the continuity of Desert Hot Springs after the Coffees were gone. Some of the profits from the bathhouse they developed would go to the town, and ownership of the bathhouse, along with other properties, would go to the town upon their deaths.^[81] See also

1952 Feb 7: Flood Control Dispute

1952 Apr 10; Angel View Park, Formed in 1947, deeded to Athletic Association 1951

1952 Apr 17; Easter sunrise at Angel View Park;

1952 Jun 12; Coffee announces additions to bath house and reasons for foundation

1952 Jun 22; Lillian Coffee obituary

1952 Jun 26; Lillian - Power behind the throne

1952 Oct 16; Coffee starts major sales campaign

1952 Oct 23; TV advertising; Baden-Baden of America

1952 Nov 2: By 1952 Desert Hot Springs was being billed as, "The fastest growing health center in the world."^[82]

1952 Nov 6; Additional Advertising campaign discussed

1952 Nov 27; More Advertising

1953 Jan 13; Coffee remarries

1953 Mar 12; largest subdivision in Riverside County history

1953 Apr 6; approval given for new subdivision to double size of DHS

1953 Aug 20; Coffees sister dies

1953 Sep 3; Coffee in Alhambra hospital for surgery

1953 Oct 8; Coffee recovers using "healing waters", and progress on major subdivision

1953 Nov 12; Discussion of water for Coffee's new project

1953 Dec 17; Coffee conflict with water board on new subdivision

1954 Feb 5; Desert Hot springs rated "Health city"

1954 Feb 11; DHS top spot in county for building permits

1954 Mar 15; Elected president of rotarians

1954 May 13; Ball park sold by coffee for only $1000 to community.

1954 Jun 17; Additional subdivisions

1954 Jul 15; KPAL radio broadcast

STOPPED HERE, START 1954, Newspapers.com

1954: Moved to DHS in 1954.^[83]

1955 Aug 17, Coffee described DHS development plans See.

1956 Jul 26; Desert Hot Springs 10 years old, lists years tracts were opened, praises Lawrence & Lillian Coffee, part of article missing

1968: By 1968 over 100 wells had been drilled.

Bathhouse and health center

A major part of Coffee's vision for Desert Hot Springs was to develop a "health" community. Coffee saw the hot mineral water as a natural resource that had healing powers and ... "include quote here" ... When he initially formed the Desert Hot Springs trust, Coffee's first effort was to build a bathhouse, which at the time was primarily a plunge or swimming pool. After the trust was dissolved, Coffee lost control of the original bathhouse, but with the formation of his new enterprise with Aubrey Wardman, Coffee built a new bathhouse that included ... The new bathhouse was a wooden structure, and burned down in 1947 after a fire started in the laundry. After the fire Coffee quickly rebuilt the bathhouse, but used cement, stucco and tile, rather than wood. Over time he continued to expand the bathhouse promoting the health benefits of its waters. Initially known as the "Desert Hot Springs Mineral Baths", he renamed the bathhouse "Coffee's Mineral Baths" after he purchased Wardman's interest in Desert Hot Springs.

First bathhouse built in 1941 was a wooden structure.

Destroyed by fire in Jan 1947. see

Include quote on dedicatory tablet in Community Book? see also

Coffee and his wife developed a bathhouse in

Opening of Bathhouse - whites only

Background on bathhouse and remodel

Installation of Plaque at Bathhouse.

Coffee / Wardman business relationship.

Riverside County Hot Springs

Foundation