Desert Queen Ranch, Keys Ranch House, Twentynine Palms, San Bernardino County, CA
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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 still surviving. The house is a complex of five sections, three similar in character to mining cabins simple wood-frame structures with gable roofs and two additions with shed roofs. These kinds of buildings and their method of construction are typical of desert structures. Due to the scarcity of materials, especially of wood, throughout the tree-barren desert, cabins often were built of scavenged material, and, in some cases, whole cabins abandoned by miners and homesteaders were moved to new sites.
Survey number: HABS CA-2347-A
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