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The development of the hotel was financed by Laurance S. Rockefeller and it was designed by Edward Charles Bassett for the firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. It opened in 1965. Original plans were to use architect John Carl Warnecke and build a series of small cottages, but those plans were abandoned.
The Ahwahnee Hotel's giant metal chandeliers along with the soaring 34-foot ceilings and walls of wood and stone make the room look like a Viking palace. (Diane Cook & Len Jenshel / Corbis) The Ahwahnee Hotel was built in 1927 to draw affluent and influential tourists into the park and give them a Ritz-Carlton experience amid Yosemite's wilderness. (Robert Holmes / Corbis) By Kristin Ohlson