Archinect - News 2024-12-22T06:00:02-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/111252707/petrified-forest-buildings-named-national-treasure Petrified Forest buildings named national treasure Archinect 2014-10-14T11:55:00-04:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/4b/4bca52b6a41b12cea45d51a0d3312b6f?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Spanning dozens of acres, the structures provided everything the park staff and visitors would need: a gas station, restaurant, community building, maintenance shop, housing, even a two-room elementary school. The National Park Service entrusted the design to prominent architects Richard Neutra and Robert Alexander ahead of the agency&rsquo;s 50th birthday, and it&rsquo;s the only project of theirs still standing within the Park Service.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><head><meta></head></html>