National Historic Landmark · Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona

Painted Desert Community Complex Historic District

Added to the National Register in 2016, and a National Historic Landmark.

The record

Property typeHistoric district
AddressOne Park Rd., Petrified Forest National Park, AZ
CountyApache County
ListedDec 23, 2016
Listed forCommunity planning, Architecture
Reference number100000838

Visiting

AddressOne Park Rd., Petrified Forest National Park, AZ
A district listing covers the streets, not the doors. Walk it freely; the buildings inside are as private as they ever were.
Limited data for this unit

No photograph, no construction date, no encyclopedia article or coordinates for this listing yet. The Register record above is complete; the enrichment is not.

The NPS spatial layer is re-read every Saturday, and Wikidata on the first Saturday of each month.

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Local history books for Apache County

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  • The White Mountains of Apache County
    Catherine H. Ellis, 2010
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Guidebooks to historic places and travel in Arizona

  • A guide to southern Arizona's historic farms and ranches
    Lili DeBarbieri, 2012
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  • Frommer's Arizona and the Grand Canyon
    Gregory McNamee, 2025
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  • Touring Hot Springs Arizona
    Matt C. Bischoff, 2019
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Titles come from Open Library's catalog, matched by subject heading or by title.

Reference

Questions people ask

When was Painted Desert Community Complex Historic District listed on the National Register?

Dec 23, 2016. It is also a National Historic Landmark, the higher of the two designations.

Source: National Park Service

Where is Painted Desert Community Complex Historic District?

One Park Rd., Petrified Forest National Park, Apache County, Arizona.

Source: National Park Service

Sources

Name, location, type and dates come from the National Register office's spreadsheet of listed properties, because the Park Service's spatial data does not carry this listing. No source has a map point for it. Construction date, architect, style, photograph and encyclopedia link come from Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons, matched on reference number 100000838. Nothing here is transcribed by hand. The nomination form and photographs ↗ at NPGallery are the original nomination as filed with the National Park Service, and the form is often the best description of the place.