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Watson Cabin is an early Tahoe pioneer home that was built perched above Lake Tahoe in 1909 by Robert M. Watson as a wedding gift for his son and bride.

Exhibits

The log cabin interior is set up as an early pioneer home: the layout was done by Mildred Watson, just as she remembered it growing up in Tahoe City. Artifacts include early 20th century kitchen tools as well as (some of which confound present-day young people) Robert Watson's jacket gifted him by Native people in the Yukon territories, a Watson family World War I uniform, newspapers from the early 20th century, and more.

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