The Leavitt house, now known as the Bridgeport inn, was built in 1877.
Hiram Leavitt hired Sam Hopkins to build and supervise the construction . Leavitt was a native of New Hampshire who sailed from Boston to San Francisco, then settled in Sonora in 1865. His family then crossed the sierra and settled in the Indian Valley, now known as Leavitt Meadows. Here they ranched and managed a stage stop on the Sonora-Mono Road until the hotel was completed in Bridgeport.
Mark Twain supposedly stayed in the hotel during his visit to Monoville.