Cornelia White House
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The Cornelia White House is a historic structure in downtown Palm Springs, California and one of the oldest surviving structures of any kind in that city.
Built in 1893 and named for its owner, an early pioneer of the area, the house is made entirely of railroad ties from the short-lived Palmdale Railroad, a horse-drawn narrow gauge short line which ran along Palm Springs' present-day Farrell Drive to the proposed town site of Palmdale near the foot of Mount San Jacinto.
It was built next to the 1885 McCallum Adobe, itself notable as the home of the area's first white settler, John McCallum, as well as for being the first successful adobe structure in the area.
The two structures, today a part of the McCallum Adobe-Cornelia White House Museum at 221 South Palm Canyon Drive, became the property of the Palm Springs Historical Society in 1961. They house, among other things of local historic interest, the earliest telephones in Palm Springs.
[edit] External links and references
- History of the Cornelia White House at Palmsprings.com
- Palm Springs vacation planning guide from The Weather Channel
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