10, 1911.

It has a seating capacity of a hundred and seventy-five.

Its location was chosen with an eye to the beautiful, being on Tahoe Heights, and is less than fifteen minutes' walk from the Tavern.
The Episcopal "Church of the Transfiguration" is unique in that it is an open air building, the altar only being roofed.

Towering pines stand as aisles and the vaulted ceiling is the clear blue dome of heaven.

Rustic and simple, it harmonizes exquisitely with its surroundings, and strangely insensible must that worshiper be who, as he kneels in this Nature shrine, and the organ peals forth its solemn notes, with a wonderful accompaniment of hundreds of singing birds, and the ascending incense of a thousand flowers, does not feel his own soul lifted into a higher and more spiritual mental frame.
One of the chief troubles about a hotel like Tahoe Tavern is that it is _too_ tempting, _too_ luxurious, _too_ seductive to the senses.