| Stonepine Estate | |
| Location: | Carmel Valley, California, United States |
| Coordinates: | 36.4589°N -121.7189°W |
| Completion Date: | 1920 |
| Website: | Official Website |
The Stonepine Estate is a 330acres hotel located in Carmel Valley, Monterey County, California, United States. Stonepine provides luxury accommodations, dining, weddings, corporate retreats, and equestrian activities. The property consists of two main areas: Chateau Noel and the Double H Ranch. It is listed on the National Registry of the Historic Hotels of America.[1] It was once the oldest thoroughbred breeding facility west of the Mississippi.[2]
The estate was built in 1920 for Helen Crocker Russell (daughter of banker William Henry Crocker) and her husband, Henry Porter Russell, and was known as Double H Ranch, in the style of a Mediterranean estate. They had purchased it when the Rancho Los Laureles was subdivided. The ranch was purchased from descendants in 1983 by Gordon and Noel Hentschel and converted into a country resort, named Stonepine Estate. It is located in Carmel Valley, California, an unincorporated area of Monterery County.
According to the Monterey Herald:
It's here where the Crocker family — California royalty with an empire built on railroad ties and bank notes — lived a Gatsby-esque existence, replete with the Fitzgerald novel's themes of love, money, social classes and the American dream.[3]
The Stonepine Estate Equestrian Center serves guests with private riding on the 330acres grounds of the estate, and also boards horses and serves as a training facility for the local community.[4]
The resort was used to shoot the wedding of Eden Capwell and Cruz Castillo for the Santa Barbara TV series in 1988.[5] It became listed on the National Registry of the Historic Hotels of America in 2019.[6] In 2021, the estate with 400acres was listed for sale at asking price $70 million.[7]