PETRIFIED FOREST The Painted Desert Inn Evaluation of Structures and Cultural Resources

Residence No. 1, Park Building No. 77, Built in 1940

This small house has an irregular shape in plan. The style of architecture is similar to the Painted Desert Inn and may be called Mexican American Pueblo. The exterior wall finish is stucco over stone. There is a flat roof behind parapet walls. There are projecting log viga ends at the roof level. One wall of horizontal wood siding (at the back door) appears to have been added to enclose an open porch.

Inside, is a living room bedroom combined, a kitchen with adjoining small eating area, a bathroom, a storage closet, and the enclosed porch. Walls are plastered. Floors are good, well maintained hardwood in the living room, linoleum in the Kitchen and bathroom. Ceilings have exposed natural finish log vigas with random-width board finish above. Wood casement windows and wood doors with wood trim and wood lintels over all openings. There is an oil-fired heater.

This house is in good condition, it has been well maintained and serves as seasonal quarters for Park Rangers.

It is recommended that it be retained for as long as the Painted Desert Inn is in existence.

Residence No. 2, Park Building No. B-76, Built in 1940

This house is a rectangle in plan with a shallow projection on the back for its bathroom.

Mexican American Pueblo type architecture, the house is of stone with plastered walls which finish in parapets. There are projecting log viga ends through the walls at the roof line.

At one end the 2nd entrance and a window are located in a horizontal wood siding wall. This appears to be an infill of what was originally an open porch. Outside there is a low curved wall which steps up to become a buttress and then the house wall.

Inside is a living room-bedroom combined, a kitchen, a bathroom, a storage closet, and the enclosed porch. Walls are plastered. Floors are good, well maintained hardwood in the living room, linoleum in the Kitchen and bathroom. Ceilings have exposed brown painted vigas and natural finish savinos above. Wood casement windows and wood doors with wood trim and wood lintels over all openings. There is an oil-fired heater.

This house is in good condition, it has been well maintained, and serves as seasonal quarters for Park Rangers.

It is recommended that it be retained for as long as the Painted Desert Inn is in existence.