'Handmade Utopia' Relishes the Architecture of California's Back-to-the-Land Movement

'Handmade Utopia' Relishes the Architecture of California's Back-to-the-Land Movement

When I was about 10 years old, my parents organized a vacation to a tiny enclave called Orr Hot Springs just outside of Ukiah, California. Nestled in the mountains with a history dating to 1858 as a stagecoach stop with redwoods shading the trails, the property has a uniquely layered architectural history. We stayed in what my dad called “Art’s cabin,” which turned out to have really been built by a guy named Art in the mid-1970s. A giant tree i…