Painted Desert Community Complex Historic District


Painted Desert Community Complex Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district

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Location	One Park Rd., Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona
Coordinates	35°4′6″N 109°46′50″W / 35.06833°N 109.78056°W / 35.06833; -109.78056Coordinates: 35°4′6″N 109°46′50″W / 35.06833°N 109.78056°W / 35.06833; -109.78056
Architect	Neutra, Richard; Alexander, Robert
Architectural style	Modern Movement, International Style
NRHP Reference #	05000284
Added to NRHP	April 15, 2005^[1]

The Painted Desert Community Complex is the administrative center of Petrified Forest National Park. The community center includes administrative facilities, utility structures and National Park Service employee housing, planned by architects Richard Neutra and Robert Alexander as part of the Mission 66 park facilities improvement program. Work on the community began in 1961 and was completed by 1965. The complex contrasts with earlier Park Service architecture that sought to blend with the environment. The Painted Desert community used straight manufactured materials that deliberately draw a contrast with the natural environment.

The most significant building is the Painted Desert Visitor Center, designed as a severely modernist structure that includes administrative offices., a visitor center, an auditorium, a clinic and staff apartments. Other structures include a community center, school and a Fred Harvey Company concession building.^[2]

Neutra and Alexander paid particular attention to the division of the complex into public and private areas, using low walls to divide the Park Service service area from the central zone, and setting the inward-facing residential areas at a distance. Pedestrian circulation paths are used as defining organizing elements.^[3]

The original landscape design used non-native plants that required regular watering. Removal of irrigation caused these plants to die, altering the landscape.^[3]

References

↑ National Park Service (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ "Painted Desert Visitor Center, Admin, & Apartments". List of Classified Structures. National Park Service. 2008-11-26.
1 2 Rodd Wheaton and Dawn Bunyak (December 16, 2004). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Painted Desert Community Complex Historic District" (pdf). National Park Service.

National Register of Historic Places in Petrified Forest National Park

National Historic Landmarks	Painted Desert Inn

Historic districts	Painted Desert Community Complex Historic District

NRHP properties	Agate House Pueblo

See also: National Register of Historic Places listings in Petrified Forest National Park

U.S. National Register of Historic Places

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