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During the years 1923-1925, the Pacific Coast Borax Company constructed
a company town consisting of a U-shaped complex of Spanish Colonial style
buildings of adobe to house the company offices, store, dormitory, a twenty
three room hotel, dining room, lobby, and employees' headquarters. A recreation
hall was built at the northeast end of the complex and was used as a community
center for dances, church services, movies, funerals, and town meetings.
At the time it was known as Corkhill Hall. The architect who designed
the town was Alexander Hamilton McCulloch.
In the years since her arrival in Death Valley Junction,
in the spring of 1967, Marta has painted murals throughout the hotel.
An alcove at the entrance to the main hallway depicts a gazebo, naturally
lighted by a skylight. A guitar rests upon a chair, silently waiting for
a guitarist. Murals of a 16th century Spanish Garden adorn the walls of
the Dining Room.
Several of the guest rooms have murals painted on the
walls where cherubs and peacocks and angels frolic. In room 22, a ballerina
dances on a ball, and clowns and acrobats perform as a special dedication
to RED SKELTON, who was a guest in this room on four occasions.
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