Cabot’s Old Indian Pueblo Museum
World traveler and adventurer Cabot Abram Yerxa homesteaded 160 acres in the Coachella Valley in 1913. He then spent nearly 20 years wandering the world from Alaska to South America to an artist’s academy in Paris. Returning to his homestead in 1939, he began construction of his home in the Pueblo Revival Style of architecture. The main building is a four-story, 5,000 sq ft structure with 35 rooms, 150 windows, 65 doors and 30 different roof levels. Cabot used local, mostly discarded and abandoned building materials to build the complex. Yerxa also subdivided his property to create the town of Desert Hot Springs. Cabot’s Pueblo Museum is both a Riverside and California Point of Historical Interest and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Desert Hot Springs, Riverside County
Photographer: Al Russell
Photographer: Andrew Schmidt