The Last Resort, a Lagunitas property featuring dozens of hand-built, Asiatic, ecologically minded and illegal structures, clinched a state committee’s nomination to the National Register of Historic Places on Feb. 2. Last Friday, California’s Historical Resources Commission, which is overseen by the National Park Service, voted unanimously to approve the nomination.
Owner David Lee Hoffman, a tea merchant—and a scofflaw in the eyes of Marin County—applauded the recognition of his life’s work. “I slept…