View To A Different Time #2

by Sandra Bronstein

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View To A Different Time #2

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Sandra Bronstein

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Photograph - Photography - Fine Art Photography - Digital Art

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Both the Scotty's Castle Visitor Center and the Castle Museum are currently open year-round, and approximately 100,000 people tour the villa each year. . The ranch is located about 45 miles north of Stovepipe Wells, California, on Highway 267, about a three-hour drive from Las Vegas, Nevada.Construction began on Scotty's Castle in 1922, and cost between $1.5 and $2.5 million. Prospector, performer, and con man Walter Scott, also known as ￿Death Valley Scotty￿, convinced Chicago millionaire Albert Mussey Johnson to invest in his gold mine in the Death Valley area. By 1937, Johnson had acquired more than 1,500 acres in Grapevine Canyon, where the ranch is located. Unknown to the Johnsons, the initial survey was incorrect, and the land they built Death Valley Ranch on was actually government land; their land was further up Grapevine Canyon. Construction halted as they resolved this mistake, but before it could resume, the stock market crashed in 1929, making it difficult for Johnson to finish construction. Having lost a considerable amount of money, the Johnsons used the Death Valley Ranch to produce income by letting rooms out. The Johnsons died without heirs and had wanted the National Park Service to purchase the property. Finally, in 1970, the National Park Service purchased the villa and its out buildings for $850,000 from the Gospel Foundation, to which the Johnsons had willed the property. Walter Scott, who was taken care of by the Gospel Foundation after Johnson's passing, died in 1954 and was buried on the hill overlooking Scotty's Castle.

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April 17th, 2013

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