The Campbell House, formerly known as the Roughley Manor, was built by Bill and Elizabeth Campbell of Pasadena, who moved to Twentynine Palms following World War I. Bill had suffered lung damage from mustard gas, and like many veterans, moved to the desert for his health. Hilary Sloane picks up the story of one of Twentynine Palms’ first homesteaders…
Bill and Elizabeth Campbell met in Philadelphia in 1917 where they were both members of a wedding party, and it was love at first sight. Bill enlisted and was sent to Europe to fight in World War I where he was exposed to mustard gas. When he returned in 1920, they married, despite Elizabeth’s family’s objections, and her wealthy father cut her out of his will. The newlyweds moved to Pasadena, but after a year there, they took the advice of Dr. James Luckie and moved to Twentynine Palms. They lived in a tent for three months at the Oasis of Mara before they decided to homestead in Twentynine Palms and built a small cabin.
Over the next few years, they collected the rocks that were used to build the 3,000 square foot, 11-room mansion house. When Elizabeth’s father was on his deathbed, he added her back in to his will, leaving her a generous inheritance for the rest of her life. The Campbell House was a bed-and-breakfast known as Roughley Manor before it was bought by the owners of the Twentynine Palms Inn a few years ago.
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