Ross H. Blakely House

Kingman was barely fifteen years old when this Queen Anne cottage went up in 1897, and in a young railroad-and-mining town of mostly utilitarian buildings, a house with Victorian trim stood out. It survives as one of the older residences in town, its steep roofline and decorative woodwork a piece of the domestic Kingman that grew up alongside the depot and the mines. Listed on the National Register, the Blakely house is a reminder that boomtowns were also places where families settled in and stayed.

What the plaque says

Built 1897 This Queen Anne style cottage has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Kingman — 0.2 mi
  The working hub of Route 66 in Arizona — a railroad town named for a surveyor, Andy Devine's hometown, and the last real stop before the road's two wildest endings.
• Oatman — 22 mi
  A gold camp in the Black Mountains that outlived its mines, now run by wild burros — reached by the wildest switchbacks left on Route 66, and named for a history worth telling straight.
• Hackberry General Store — 22 mi
  Looks like a junkyard, is a shrine — the 1934 store an artist brought back from the dead, and the Route 66 stop that inspired Fillmore in Cars.

More markers nearby

• Art Hub — 0.2 mi
• Central Commercial — 0.2 mi
• Water Tanks — 0.2 mi
• Depot Plaza — 0.2 mi