Petrified Forest National Park by George M. Lubick

Author:George M. Lubick
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2015-05-05T00:00:00+00:00

Painted Desert Inn, 1940, following the renovation by the Civilian Conservation Corps (Photograph courtesy of Petrified Forest National Park)

By the end of the following year, renovation was nearly finished. In all, the two-story inn enclosed 7,520 square feet of space. Its stone and plaster walls were twenty-seven inches thick by the time renovation was complete. The building's architecture clearly reflected southwestern pueblo construction, though it was modified somewhat to incorporate Spanish colonial influences through the adzed beams and carved corbels and brackets. Skidmore's plans separated the building into two parts-one primarily a Park Service facility, the other an extensive area to be leased to a concessionaire.38 The latter included a lunch counter, kitchen, dining rooms, and an enclosed dining porch with access to decks that overlooked the Painted Desert. In this respect, the Painted Desert Inn functioned much as did Grand Canyon's EI Tovar, and indeed it became a landmark above the Painted Desert.

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