Amargosa Opera House and Hotel

The U-shaped complex of Spanish Colonial Revival architecture style adobe buildings included company offices, employees' headquarters, a dormitory and a 23-room[3] hotel with a dining room, lobby and store.At the northeast end of the complex was a recreation hall used as a community center for dances, church services, movies, funerals and town meetings.Once the railroad stopped, the Opera House, Hotel and about 250 acres of land changed hands many times, until Marta Becket arrived on the scene.[2] Through the Trust for Public Land, the nonprofit bought the town of Death Valley Junction, which was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on December 10, 1981.The exterior of the adjacent cafe and hotel colonnade were shown in a 40 second segment of Robert Plant's video of his 1983 song Big Log.
When Marta Becket rented and repaired Corkhill Hall in 1967, she changed the name to the Amargosa Opera House.
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