Informational panel at Painted Desert Inn - Petrified Forest National Park AZ
Description
The Painted Desert Inn was created by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), working under the National Park Service (NPS), with a grant from the Public Works Administration (PWA). They completely rebuilt a private inn called the Stone Tree House, which had been constructed in the 1910s, which was purchased and added to the Petrified Forest National Monument in 1936 (the monument had been designated by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1906 and was elevated to Petrified Forest National Park in 1962). The reconstruction was done in 1937-40.
The Stone Tree House had no water supply, so the CCC enrollees brought running water via a 12-mile pipeline (presumably from Adamana to the south). To carry the pipe, the CCC ‘boys’ dug a trench by hand the entire distance. Based on the history panel at the Painted Desert Inn, the job appears to have been completed in late 1937.
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Informational panel at Painted Desert Inn - Petrified Forest National Park AZ
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Reconstruction panel at Painted Desert Inn - Petrified Forest National Par AZ
Source notes
https://www.nps.gov/pefo/historyculture/pdi.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrified_Forest_National_Park
Arizona Chapter of the National New Deal Preservation Association, "The New Deal in Arizona: Connections to Our Historic Landscape," University of Arizona Library online collections, 2012.
https://content.library.arizona.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/NewDeal/id/196/rec/25Information panels at the Painted Desert Inn
Project originally submitted by Richard Walker on April 30, 2022.
Additional contributions by Joan Greer.
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