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Their story attracted attention, giving the home some renown as well as its exotic name: A Life Magazine story (January 26, 1948) [1] used the headline "Life Visits a Mystery Castle: A Young Girl Rules Over the Strange Secrets of a Fairy Tale Dream House in the Arizona Desert." The photograph featured Mary Lou posing atop the cantilever ...
The Good Shepherd Home for Girls structure was built in 1942 and is located near the northeast corner of Northern and 19th Avenues. The home for girls closed in 1981 and is now a commercial property. The owners have kept the main architectural features intact. Designated as a landmark with Historic Preservation-Landmark (HP-L) overlay zoning.
This is a partial list of ghost towns in Arizona in the United States. Most ghost towns in Arizona are former mining boomtowns that were abandoned when the mines closed. Those not set up as mining camps often became mills or supply points supporting nearby mining operations. [1]
Later that week, I tackled another patch of the desert that covers 100,000 square miles across Arizona, California and Mexico, heading off-road in an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) into parts I was ...
The school closed in 1942 due to World War II. [4] In March 1945, John Murphey and Rev. George W. Ferguson sold the property to Mr. and Mrs. Howard Morgan for $110,000. The new owners announced plans to operate a desert resort hotel on the property, then consisting of 80 acres. [5]
The project was ultimately successful and helped produce more than 800,000 photos of enemy airfields and nuclear weapons sites. CORONA ended after 12 years in 1972, but many of the concrete ...
Wright and the draftsmen stayed at the camp until late spring, and returned to Wright's home, Taliesin, on May 31. [2] Wright, presuming work would continue into the next year, intended to return to the camp. However, a fire in the camp that summer (followed by the stock market crash in October) prevented the cabins ever being used again.
We found this remote little home tucked away in the desert in Tucson, Arizona. The 1,450-square-foot house is only one story and sits on a 4.5 acre lot, giving it a simple, cube-like aesthetic.