Painted Desert Inn


  • Address: Petrified Forest Park Rd
  • Travel Genus: Sight
  • Sight Category: Building

Constructed between 1937 and 1940 in the Spanish-Pueblo Revival style, the interior spaces have unusually high quality of design. Particularly notable is the former Trading Post Room, illuminated by a translucent skylight with multiple panes of glass painted in designs of prehistoric Pueblo pottery. The murals are by the late Hopi artist, Fred Kabotie. - NPS


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Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Bennett,Lyle E. Architect
Kabotie,Fred Architect
US National Park Service Architect
1937/00/00
1937/00/00
1938/00/00

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Particulars for Painted Desert Inn:
Area of Significance Architecture
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Area of Significance Art
Sight Category Building
Owner Federal
Criteria Historic Event
Historic Use Hotel
Level of Significance National
Historic Use Park
Architectural Style Pueblo
Architectural Style Pueblo Revival
Area of Significance Social History



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration: 28th May 1987

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name: Painted Desert Inn
Registry Address: Off US 40
Registry Number: 87001421
Resource Type: Building
Owner: Federal
Architect: Bennett,Lyle E.; Kabotie,Fred
Architectural Style: Other
Attribute: Pueblo Revival
Area in Acres: 9
Contributing Buildings: 1
Other Certification: Designated National Landmark
Certification: Listed in the National Register
Nominator Name: National Historic Landmark
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: National; Local
Area of Significance: Art, Architecture, Social history
Applicable Criteria: Event, Architecture-Engineering
Criteria Consideration: Significance of less than fifty years
Period of Significance: 1925-1949
Significant Year: 1937, 1938
Historic Function: Domestic, Landscape
Historic Sub-Function: Hotel, Park
Current Function: Vacant, not in use, Landscape, Work in progress
Current Sub-Function: Park

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