Desert Queen Ranch, Tack House, Twentynine Palms, San Bernardino County, CA
Summary
Significance: The Keys Desert Queen Ranch in the Joshua Tree National Monument is an outstanding historical site of desert-based vernacular technologies displaying a range of architectural and engineering artifacts associated with the Euro-American era of settlement in the Mojave desert. The site is largely intact with nine buildings and four ore mills surviving. The Tack House is currently used to store tack equipment such as bridles and harnesses, but originally it was a tank of cyanide used in the processing of gold ore.
Survey number: HABS CA-2347-F
Tags
ranches
tack rooms
twentynine palms calif
desert
ranch
desert queen ranch
tack
house
tack house
twentynine
palms
twentynine palms
san bernardino county
san bernardino
california
behrens
historic american buildings survey
klugh
photo
historic american landscapes survey
historic american engineering record
landscape plans
building plans
architectural diagrams
library of congress
Date
1933 - 1970
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Behrens, transmitter
Klugh, transmitter
Location
Twentynine Palms Base (historical)
,
34.22900, -116.05685
Source
Library of Congress
Link
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html