Desert Queen Ranch, North 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. Built for guests, the North House became the home of numerous teachers who taught at Keys Ranch.
Survey number: HABS CA-2347-E
Tags
Date
1933 - 1970
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Behrens, transmitter
Klugh, transmitter
Location
Twentynine Palms (Calif.), 34.13556, -116.05417
Source
Library of Congress
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