Desert Queen Ranch, Schoolhouse, 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 schoolhouse was originally a tent cabin. After it was enclosed, it served briefly as the schoolhouse.
Survey number: HABS CA-2347-D
Tags
Date
1933 - 1970
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Behrens, transmitter
Klugh, transmitter
Jandoli, Liz, 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