Built in 1917 on a on heavily wooded hillside, the Yung See San Fong House is a unique combination of oriental decorative motifs and pagoda roofs artfully blended with western massing and plan layout.

The residence was built by playwright/author Ruth Comfort Mitchell and her husband, Sanborn Young who was a gentleman farmer, a conservationist and a California State Senator.

Mitchell entertained many famous artists, authors and politicians during her thirty-seven year residence at Yung See San Fong: among them President Herbert Hoover, California Governor William Stephens, Senator James Phelan, and authors Robert Service and Kathleen Norris.

Source : NRHP nomination submitted in 1983.