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Painted Desert Community Complex Historic District

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 co…

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1965

Apache County, Apache County, United States

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Richard Neutra

1892-1970 · Los Angeles, California, United States

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Richard Joseph Neutra was an Austrian-American architect. Living and building for most of his career in Southern California, he came to be considered a prominent and important modernist architect. His most notable works include the Kaufmann Desert House, in Palm Springs, California.

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Richard Neutra

studio · Los Angeles, California, United States

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