The Cornelia White House is a historic 1893 wooden residential structure located in downtown Palm Springs, California, and is one of the oldest surviving structures in the town.

Cornelia White history

The

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was a horse-drawn

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in town. It ran along Palm Springs' present-day

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Drive to the proposed town site of Palmdale near the foot of Mount San Jacinto. The rail line was short-lived and had been abandoned by 1893 due to lack of water. The Cornelia White House was built in 1893, and is made entirely of "recycled"

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s taken from under the Palmdale Railroad's tracks. The residence is named for its original owner, Cornelia B. White, who was an early pioneer of the Palm Springs area.

McCallum Adobe

The Cornelia White House was built next to the 1884 ''McCallum Adobe'', itself notable as the adobe home of the area's first European American settler, John McCallum, as well as for being the first successful adobe structure in the upper Coachella Valley.

McCallum Adobe-Cornelia White House Museum

Since 1961 the two structures, today known as the ''McCallum Adobe-Cornelia White House Museum'', are directed by and the property of the Palm Springs Historical Society.Palm Springs Historical Society
accessed 6/22/2010 The historic houses, with other items of local history such as the earliest

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s in Palm Springs, are on display and open to the public to visit at 221 South Palm Canyon Drive, Palm Springs.

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* Officia
Palm Springs Historical Society website

History of the Cornelia White House
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Cornelia White history

McCallum Adobe

McCallum Adobe-Cornelia White House Museum

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