Amargosa Opera House and Hotel

When Marta Becket rented and repaired Corkhill Hall in 1967, she changed the name to the Amargosa Opera House.

Amargosa Opera House and Hotel is a historic building and cultural center located in Death Valley Junction, in eastern Inyo County, California near Death Valley National Park.

Resident artist Marta Becket staged dance and mime shows there from the late 1960s until her final show in February 2012.[1] The Death Valley Junction Historic District is on the National Register of Historic Places and is owned by the nonprofit established by Becket for the preservation of the property.[2]

The theater was part of a company town designed by architect Alexander Hamilton McCulloch and constructed in 1923–25 by the Pacific Coast Borax Company. 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.[4][5]

  1. ^ Dean, Charlene (10 February 2012). "Soiree Planned for Becket's Final Stage Performance". Pahrump Valley Times. Archived from the original on 2013-06-16. Retrieved 2012-04-15.
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  3. ^ "Amargosa Opera House Motel Shoshone". HotelGuides.com. Retrieved 2013-05-21.
  4. ^ Bostwick, Dennis W. (18 February 2005). "The town that Zane Grey helped build". Pahrump Valley Times. Archived from the original on 2013-06-16. Retrieved 2013-05-21.
  5. ^ "The Hotel" Archived 2017-05-07 at the Wayback Machine. Amargosa Opera House (official website). Retrieved 2013-05-21.