Cornelia White House

Palm Springs, CA

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Community memory · Oct 29, 2026

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The Cornelia White House began with materials from a failed railroad. Built in 1893, the bungalow used salvaged ties from the Palmdale Railroad, abandoned after a shortage of water. Welwood Murray recovered the wood and used it for a bungalow at his Palm Springs Hotel. The bungalow became Cornelia White's home. Its modest walls preserve an unusually direct connection between an abandoned transportation venture and the everyday making of a desert town. Source: https://pshistoricalsociety.org/pages/the-cornelia-white-house

Source: Palm Springs Historical Society, “The Cornelia White House”

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